num_pages: 176
description: An account of a ship's encounter with a great white whale.With supplementary accounts of survivors and Herman Melville's memoranda on Owen Chase.
language: English
title: Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex: Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing
titlecomplete: Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex: Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing
genres: Historical, History, Classics, Survival, Adventure, Memoir, Biography, Maritime, Travel, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1305
places: Pacific Ocean
publisher: Lyons Pr