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Author | : Owen Chase |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1944529047 |
Download Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Owen Chase |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Shipwrecks |
ISBN | : 9780747274049 |
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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.
Author | : David O. Dowling |
Publisher | : University Press of New England |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611689422 |
Download Surviving the Essex Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Surviving the "Essex" tells the captivating story of a ship's crew battered by whale attack, broken by four months at sea, and forced - out of necessity - to make meals of their fellow survivors. Exploring the Rashomon-like Essex accounts that complicate and even contradict first mate Owen Chase's narrative, David O. Dowling examines the vital role of viewpoint in shaping how an event is remembered and delves into the ordeal's submerged history - the survivors' lives, ambitions, and motives, their pivotal actions during the desperate moments of the wreck itself, and their will to reconcile those actions in the short- and long-term aftermath of this storied event. Mother of all whale tales, Surviving the "Essex" acts as a sequel to Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, while probing deeper into the nature of trauma and survival accounts, an extreme form of notoriety, and the impact that the story had on Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick.
Author | : Kathryn Griffin |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781519249876 |
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Fourteen year old Thomas Nickerson stands aboard the whaling ship Essex and scans the Pacific Ocean. Somewhere beneath the surface lurks Maximus, the sperm whale that killed his father. suddenly the whale charges and destroys the ship. Thus begins the odyssey of Thomas Nickerson and the Essex crew, adrift in battered whaleboats thousands of miles from land. As they battle starvation and storms, Tom makes surprising discoveries about courage, hope, and the power of friendship.
Author | : Thomas Farel Heffernan |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1990-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780819562449 |
Download Stove by a Whale Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.
Author | : Owen Chase |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2015-10-21 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0486808793 |
Download Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Three eyewitness accounts of a lethal attack by a sperm whale against a whaling ship in the Pacific in 1819, the incident that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick — as well as the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings.
Author | : Owen Chase |
Publisher | : SeaWolf Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2020-02-23 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781950435968 |
Download The Illustrated Wreck of the Whaleship Essex Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Nathaniel Philbrick |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 000816911X |
Download In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired ‘Moby Dick’ (Text Only) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century – and inspiration for ‘Moby-Dick’ – reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy.
Author | : Nathaniel Philbrick |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2022-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0593511395 |
Download Valiant Ambition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the George Washington Prize A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, from the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye. "May be one of the greatest what-if books of the age—a volume that turns one of America’s best-known narratives on its head.”—Boston Globe "Clear and insightful, [Valiant Ambition] consolidates Philbrick's reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction."—Wall Street Journal In the second book of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental army under an unsure George Washington evacuated New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeded in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have lost the war. As this book ends, four years later Washington has vanquished his demons, and Arnold has fled to the enemy. America was forced at last to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from withinComplex, controversial, and dramatic, Valiant Ambition is a portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation.
Author | : Owen Chase |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-07-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781957240718 |
Download The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This faithful Warbler Classics edition contains First Mate Owen Chase's riveting original 1821 account of the sinking of the Essex, two other accounts, a chronology, crew bios, and Herman Melville's notes on the Essex.