The Wreck Of The Whaleship Essex
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Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale Ship Essex
Author | : Owen Chase |
Publsiher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781944529048 |
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Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South American in 1820. Of the twenty-man crew, only eight survived the horrific ordeal; some men were stranded on an island, all remaining crew were forced to eat food tainted by seawater and drink their own urine, and finally, when members of the crew started dying, those still alive resorted to cannibalism until they were rescued. Narrative of the Whale-ship Essex inspired Herman Melville to write his enduring classic Moby-Dick in 1851; it also inspired the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, based on the 2000 best-selling book of the same name.
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
Author | : Owen Chase |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Shipwrecks |
ISBN | : 0747274045 |
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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 the following three months of despair and debilitating exhaustion at sea - Owen Chase was one of these, and this is his journal of shipwreck, camaraderie and cannibalism.
Beneath the Heart of the Sea
Author | : Owen Chase |
Publsiher | : Hesperus Press |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781780944524 |
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Discover the amazing true story behind the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick and the feature film Heart of the Sea A tragic yet riveting narration of life and death and man against the elements, this is an extreme account of shipwreck survival. On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean 2,000 miles from the coast of South America, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaleship Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of 20, including first mate Owen Chase, grabbed what little they could before piling into frail boats and taking to the open seas. So began their four-month ordeal and struggle for survival. This is a bleak story, only eight men survived having endured starvation and dehydration, giving in to cannibalism, murder, and insanity. Owen Chase recorded the extraordinary account in his autobiography, originally published in 1821.
Surviving the Essex
Author | : David O. Dowling |
Publsiher | : University Press of New England |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781611689426 |
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Surviving the "Essex" tells the captivating story of a ship's crew battered by whale attack, broken by four months at sea, and forced - out of necessity - to make meals of their fellow survivors. Exploring the Rashomon-like Essex accounts that complicate and even contradict first mate Owen Chase's narrative, David O. Dowling examines the vital role of viewpoint in shaping how an event is remembered and delves into the ordeal's submerged history - the survivors' lives, ambitions, and motives, their pivotal actions during the desperate moments of the wreck itself, and their will to reconcile those actions in the short- and long-term aftermath of this storied event. Mother of all whale tales, Surviving the "Essex" acts as a sequel to Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, while probing deeper into the nature of trauma and survival accounts, an extreme form of notoriety, and the impact that the story had on Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick.
Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex
Author | : Owen Chase |
Publsiher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2015-10-21 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780486808796 |
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Three eyewitness accounts of a lethal attack by a sperm whale against a whaling ship in the Pacific in 1819, the incident that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick — as well as the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings.
Stove by a Whale
Author | : Thomas Farel Heffernan |
Publsiher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1990-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0819562440 |
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A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.
The Wreck of the Essex
Author | : Kathryn Griffin |
Publsiher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 151924987X |
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Fourteen year old Thomas Nickerson stands aboard the whaling ship Essex and scans the Pacific Ocean. Somewhere beneath the surface lurks Maximus, the sperm whale that killed his father. suddenly the whale charges and destroys the ship. Thus begins the odyssey of Thomas Nickerson and the Essex crew, adrift in battered whaleboats thousands of miles from land. As they battle starvation and storms, Tom makes surprising discoveries about courage, hope, and the power of friendship.
Why Read Moby Dick
Author | : Nathaniel Philbrick |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781101545218 |
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A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour through Melville’s classic. As he did in his National Book Award–winning bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, Philbrick brings a sailor’s eye and an adventurer’s passion to unfolding the story behind an epic American journey. He skillfully navigates Melville’s world and illuminates the book’s humor and unforgettable characters—finding the thread that binds Ishmael and Ahab to our own time and, indeed, to all times. An ideal match between author and subject, Why Read Moby-Dick? will start conversations, inspire arguments, and make a powerful case that this classic tale waits to be discovered anew. “Gracefully written [with an] infectious enthusiasm…”—New York Times Book Review