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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the the Whaleship Essex (Audio Cassette - Abridged edition).
by Nathaniel Philbrick
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- ISBN 10
- 0141802189
- ISBN 13
- 9780141802183
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About This Item
New York, NY Penguin Audio, 2000. Audio Cassette Four Audio Cassette Tapes in Very Good+ condition (they have been played, but show little sign of it), housed in a colorful heavy card billfold case, which shows moderate wear to the corners, and a crease to the flap, and mild rubbing to the panels (Good+), Overall, Very Good. Read by Edward Herrmann. Running Time: 6 hours. Product Size: 7.15 x 4.25 x 1 inches. Weight: 6 ounces. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Audio Cassette. Most readers now probably know that the destruction of the whaling ship Essex by a very large whale was a source for Herman Melville's great novel "Moby Dick". Without invidious comparison, it might be said that Mr. Philbrick picks up where Melville left off. He offers a fascinating and very real account -- and aftermath-- of the dramatic and dumbfounding event that actually happens at the end of Moby Dick as a masterwork of American literature. Philbrick draws from the accounts of Essex survivors and the realities of the whaling industry and its wooden ship world. It's a tough world, and Philbrick brings its details and people alive, which they once were, in a straightforward work of reportage as to what happened not only to a ship but to its people suddenly stranded in the middle of an ocean. If you've read Melville-- either recently or some time ago, as I-- you owe it to yourself to know something more of his source and to find out "how it all ends". If you read Philbrick first you may learn all you want and forego jumping into Melville's turbulent sea, with its undercurrents of Biblical doubt, human and animal vengeance and much else. But you're more likely to sign onto Melville's fateful voyage better prepared for what might be in store for you along with Ishmael and Quee Queg in Cap'n Ahab's crew. "Heart of the Sea" is fast-moving and thorough, its narrative of real events as strange and dramatic as anything a novelist could imagine -- or make use of. Penguin Audio; (May 8, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 0141802189 ISBN-13: Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 1 x 7 inches Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
Synopsis
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. Nathaniel 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. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.
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On Sep 10 2018, a reader said:
The use of time to show the tragedy offers a far better story to the reader than any action would.
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- Black Cat Hill Books
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- 51669
- Title
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the the Whaleship Essex (Audio Cassette - Abridged edition).
- Author
- Nathaniel Philbrick
- Format/Binding
- Audio Cassette
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0141802189
- ISBN 13
- 9780141802183
- Publisher
- Penguin Audio,
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2000.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Colonial Era; Native Americans; Sailing and Nautical;
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