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Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex

Publisher: Zenith
Author: Owen Chase
ISBN: 9780760348123
Format: Hardback
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Owen Chase was first mate on the <I>Essex<I>, the Nantucket whaler that was holed and sunk in 1820 by an enraged sperm whale twice ramming the ship. With no charts and few provisions, the crew escaped on three lifeboats; months later, only eight men had survived. Evoking the terror of the attack and the men's endurance on the Pacific Ocean, Chase’s narrative of 1821 was the 'gallant saga' that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick

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