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With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a whitewater wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cathead on the port bow...' In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of MobyDick. In a harrowing pageturner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history.In 1820, the 240ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eightyton bull sperm whale. Its twentyman crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000miledistant coast of South America in three tiny boats. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, the survivors clung to life as one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear.Philbrick interweaves his account of this extraordinary ordeal of ordinary men with a wealth of whale lore and with a brilliantly detailed portrait of the lost, unique community of Nantucket whalers. Impeccably researched and beautifully told, the book delivers the ultimate portrait of man against nature, drawing on a remarkable range of archival and modern sources, including a longlost account by the ship's cabin boy.At once a literary companion and a pageturner that speaks to the same issues of class, race, and man's relationship to nature that permeate the works of Melville, In the Heart of the Sea will endure as a vital work of American history.
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