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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale
Language: en
Pages: 257

The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale

Authors: Thomas Nickerson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-05-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In
Stove by a Whale
Language: en
Pages: 292

Stove by a Whale

Authors: Thomas Farel Heffernan
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-09 - Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.
The Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex
Language: en
Pages: 36

The Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex

Authors: Owen Chase
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-18 - Publisher:

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The Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex was the inspiration for Melville's Moby Dick.
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
Language: en
Pages: 208

The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

Authors: Owen Chase
Categories: Shipwrecks
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher:

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The morning of 20 November 1820 was a doomed one for the Essex. Over 1000 miles from land, she was sunk, rammed by a sperm whale. Only eight sailors survived th
The Essex and the Whale
Language: en
Pages: 391

The Essex and the Whale

Authors: R. D. Madison
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-28 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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This fascinating anthology introduces readers to the literary side of Herman Melville's whaling world with an unprecedented collection of the original whaling t

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