In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

If you liked Endurance about explorer Ernest Shackelton, you will LOVE this book too. The added pleasure of this book is the rich lesson in American and Nantucket history and early American culture- both the human history and the wonderful and tragic history of the great sperm whale. This will become a classic a New England tale, a highly readable synopsis of previous writings on this very same subject matter.

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The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents-including a long-lost account written by the ship's cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

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The sinking of the Essex by a whale is probably most famous as the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick but in In the Heart of the Sea (The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex) by Nathaniel Philbrick, the reader will be engaged in an adventure more exciting than most works of fiction. The author skillfully combines elements from the accounts of two survivors to locate the truth of the tale. In addition, one will become immeresed in the history of Nantucket, the whaling industry (including graphic accounts of the hunt not for the faint hearted), and other elements of this particular place and time in history. An exciting read and a fine speciman of that popular creature, the true survival story. Highly recommended.

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Details

• Paperback: 302 pages ( Download PDF :  )


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0141001828


• ISBN-13: 978-0141001821


• Publisher: Penguin Books; Reissue edition (May 1, 2001)


• Author: Nathaniel Philbrick


• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8.1 inches

About the Author

Nathaniel Philbrick grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and earned a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow. He was Brown University’s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978, the same year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, RI. After working as an editor at Sailing World magazine, he wrote and edited several books about sailing, including The Passionate Sailor, Second Wind, and Yaahting: A Parody.

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