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The Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex
Language: en
Pages: 36
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
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 Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale
Language: en
Pages: 257
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
The Illustrated Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
Language: en
Pages: 100
Authors: Owen Chase
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-23 - Publisher: SeaWolf Press

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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex recounts the story of the American whaler Essex from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. In 1820, while at se
Why Read Moby-Dick?
Language: en
Pages: 146
Authors: Nathaniel Philbrick
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-24 - Publisher: Penguin

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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 Amb