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In the heart of the sea, the tragedy of the whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick

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In the heart of the sea, the tragedy of the whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick
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In the heart of the sea
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Nathaniel Philbrick
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the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
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The incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex, the inspiration for Melville's great classic, Moby Dick. In 1820, the Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats
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