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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex cover

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

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#278 of 3,809 books · #95 in History

Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2000). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award. In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster.

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Publisher
Penguin
ISBN-13
9781101221570
Genre
History
Topics
WhalingMaritime survivalNantucket history

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