Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase
Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex

Owen Chase

Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex

Owen Chase with Tim Cahill

176 pages first pub 1821 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective fast-paced
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In 1819, the American whaler Essex was sailing deep into the great equatorial hunting grounds of the Pacific when it was destroyed by a maddened sperm whale. By all reports, the 85-foot whale deliberately rammed the ship twice and sank it. The inc...

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