Four people floating in a sea look on at a tail fin of a large whale just below the surface.

In the Heart of the Sea The Tragedy Of The Whalehip Essex

By Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Heart of the Sea—and now, its epic adaptation for the screen—will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

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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.

Category: Genre: History, Non-FictionTag: sku: 9780143126812

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Weight 9.6 oz
Dimensions 5.3 × .7 × 8 in
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