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Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Complete Illustrated Edition: the Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir That Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick by Chase, Owen - 2015
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Minneapolis, MN., USA: Zenith Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Black boards with a whale tooth on front board, many illustrations with 195 pp. The dust jacket is in a Brodart cover.
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Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2015. Owen Chase was the first mate on the ill-fated American whaling ship Essex, which was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1820. The crew spent months at sea in leaking boats and endured the blazing sun, attacks by killer whales, and lack of food. The men were forced to resort to cannibalism before the final eight survivors were rescued. Herman Melville based his 1851 novel, Moby-Dick, on the sinking. Chase recorded the tale of the ship's sinking and the following events with harrowing clarity in the Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex. "I turned around and saw him about one hundred rods [500 m or 550 yards] directly ahead of us, coming down with twice his ordinary speed of around 24 knots (44 km/h), and it appeared with tenfold fury and vengeance in his aspect. The surf flew in all directions about him with the continual violent thrashing of his tail. His head about half out of the water, and in that way he came upon us, and again…
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