Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex
- ISBN-10
- 0486261212
- ISBN-13
- 9780486261218
- Category
- Transportation
- Pages
- 87
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989-01-01
- Publisher
- Courier Dover Publications
- Author
- Owen Chase
Description
Three eyewitness accounts of a lethal attack by a sperm whale against a whaling ship in the Pacific in 1819, the incident that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick — as well as the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings.
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