The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person

The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts (Penguin Classics)

The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melvilleâ€™s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrickâ€™s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea
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In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. Through drastic measures, eight men survived to reveal this astonishing tale.Â The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase, has long been the essential account of the Essexâ€™s doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned late in life by Thomas Nickerson, who had been the fifteen-year-old cabin boy of the ship. This discovery has vastly expanded and clarified the history of an event as grandiose in its time as the Titanic.Â
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This edition presents Nickersonâ€™s never-before-published chronicle alongside Chaseâ€™s version. Also included are the most important other contemporary accounts of the incident, Melvilleâ€™s notes in his copy of the Chase narrative, and journal entries by Emerson and Thoreau.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700Â titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theÂ series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-dateÂ translations by award-winning translators.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2000-05-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2000-05-01
Format	Kindle eBook

The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts (Penguin Classics)

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