The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts by Thomas Nickerson, Thomas Philbrick, Owen Chase, Nathaniel Philbrick
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts

Thomas Nickerson, Thomas Philbrick, Owen Chase, Nathaniel Philbrick

The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts

Thomas Nickerson, Thomas Philbrick, Owen Chase, Nathaniel Philbrick

256 pages 1821

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In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. Through drastic measures, ...

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