Author: Owen ChasePublisher:
ISBN: 9781717145932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex was the inspiration for Melville's Moby Dick.
The Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex
Author: Owen ChasePublisher:
ISBN: 9781717145932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
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
Author: Owen ChasePublisher:
ISBN: 9780747274049
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
The Illustrated Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
Author: Owen ChasePublisher: SeaWolf Press
ISBN: 9781950435968
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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 sea in the southern Pacific Ocean under the command of Captain George Pollard Jr., she was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale.
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale
Author: Thomas NickersonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101661658
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
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 Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. Through drastic measures, eight men survived to reveal this astonishing tale. The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase, has long been the essential account of the Essex’s doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned late in life by Thomas Nickerson, who had been the fifteen-year-old cabin boy of the ship. This discovery has vastly expanded and clarified the history of an event as grandiose in its time as the Titanic. This edition presents Nickerson’s never-before-published chronicle alongside Chase’s version. Also included are the most important other contemporary accounts of the incident, Melville’s notes in his copy of the Chase narrative, and journal entries by Emerson and Thoreau. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Stove by a Whale
Author: Thomas Farel HeffernanPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819562449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.
Why Read Moby-Dick?
Author: Nathaniel PhilbrickPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123971
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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
On a Sea of Glass
Author: Tad FitchPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445614391
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
A sumptuously illustrated history of the Titanic, her sinking and its aftermath.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: SAMPI Books
ISBN: 6561332016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", a story by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the adventure of Pym, who embarks clandestinely on a whaler. After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.
The Shipwreck
Author: William FalconerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In the Heart of the Sea
Author: Nathaniel PhilbrickPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007241798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued.