Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex

Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex
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Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
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Download or read book Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South American in 1820. Of the twenty-man crew, only eight survived the horrific ordeal; some men were stranded on an island, all remaining crew were forced to eat food tainted by seawater and drink their own urine, and finally, when members of the crew started dying, those still alive resorted to cannibalism until they were rescued. Narrative of the Whale-ship Essex inspired Herman Melville to write his enduring classic Moby-Dick in 1851; it also inspired the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, based on the 2000 best-selling book of the same name.


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