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The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The True Narrative that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex is the harrowing narrative of an unfortunate vessels calamitous encounter with a great white whale, and the crews perilous fight for survival on the open sea. This Explorers Club edition faithfully reproduces Owen Chases original 1821 narrative, in which he chronicles the great whales attack on the ship, the Essexs subsequent sinking, and the more than exhausting months at sea that followed, in which the fraction of the crew that survived desperately clung to life. Struggling against a relentless sea, the insufferable climate, and ever-increasing hunger, Chase was one of only eight crew members who survived the ordeal. Evocating all of the passion and terror of the greatest adventure stories, Read more