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The non-fiction bestseller In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy
of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick tells the story of the
19th century whaling ship Essex which was attacked and wrecked by an
85 foot sperm whale. This historic tragedy inspired the climactic scene
in Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick.
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Also
by this author:
The
Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale; Viking Penguin; May 2000
American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology; The Library of America;
October 2000
Away Off Shore Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1800; Mill
Hill Press; December 1996
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