In the Heart of th4e Sea - The Tragedy of the Whaleshi9p Essex
On November 20, 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. Within minutes, the twenty-one-man crew, including the fourteen-year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, found themselves stranded in three leaky boats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with barely any supplies and little hope. Three months later, two of the boats were rescued 4,500 miles away, off the coast of South America. Of the twenty-one castaways, only eight survived, including young Thomas. Author Nathaniel Philbrick provides a vivid account of how the crew survived at sea and the aftermath when they returned to Nantucket. Island.
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In the Heart of the Sea, the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick(1999-288 pp)
The true 1819 story that inspired Moby Dick. An unforgettable tale of endurance and survival for 3 months in open whale boats, 2000 miles offshore in the Pacific.end