In the Heart of the Sea
by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0007744005
- ISBN 13
- 9780007744008
- Seller
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Ilminster, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
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.
Reviews
The use of time to show the tragedy offers a far better story to the reader than any action would.
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Details
- Bookseller
- powellbooksofsomerset.co.uk (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PB80
- Title
- In the Heart of the Sea
- Author
- Nathaniel Philbrick
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0007744005
- ISBN 13
- 9780007744008
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Place of Publication
- uk
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea. Non-fiction. Sea Faring.
- Size
- 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall
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