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Author Philbrick, Nathaniel.

Title In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex / Nathaniel Philbrick.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2000.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1183960~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  910.9164 PHI    AVAILABLE
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Description xvi, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea—and now, its epic adaptation for the screen—will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-289) and index.
Subject Essex (Whaleship)
Shipwrecks -- Pacific Ocean.
Shipwreck survival -- Pacific Ocea
ISBN 0670891576
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