In the heart of the sea : the true story of the whaleship Essex

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Label

In the heart of the sea : the true story of the whaleship Essex

Title remainder

the true story of the whaleship Essex

Statement of responsibility

Nathaniel Philbrick

Creator

• Philbrick, Nathaniel

Author

• Philbrick, Nathaniel

Subject

• Shipwrecks -- Pacific Ocean -- Juvenile literature
• Whaling ships -- Massachussets | Nantucket -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• Essex (Whaleship) -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature

Language

eng

Summary

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Philbrick uses little-known documents - including a long-lost account written by the ship's cabin boy - and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Intended audience

Ages 10 and up

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

pre adolescent