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In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby Dick

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Maritime disaster tale of survival and desperation.

If the raw power of the sea and stories of human endurance grip you, "In the Heart of the Sea" offers a chilling real-life adventure. It's the haunting narrative that inspired "Moby Dick," and Philbrick's retelling has both the depth of a historian and the suspense of a thriller, immersing you fully in an extraordinary, albeit harrowing, slice of history.

  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2000)
  • Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2001)
  • Massachusetts Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2001)
  • ALA Alex Award (2001)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby Dick

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ISBN: 9780006531203
Date of Publication: 2001-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.16
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With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed - at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cat-head on the port bow... In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex - an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history. In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, the survivors clung to life as one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear. Philbrick interweaves his account of this extraordinary
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Maritime disaster tale of survival and desperation.

If the raw power of the sea and stories of human endurance grip you, "In the Heart of the Sea" offers a chilling real-life adventure. It's the haunting narrative that inspired "Moby Dick," and Philbrick's retelling has both the depth of a historian and the suspense of a thriller, immersing you fully in an extraordinary, albeit harrowing, slice of history.

  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2000)
  • Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2001)
  • Massachusetts Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2001)
  • ALA Alex Award (2001)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.