num_pages: 288
description: A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.The first documented sinking of a ship by a whale and a harrowing account by the ship's first mate of the survivors' three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick.
language: English
title: Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex
titlecomplete: Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 45
publisher: Wesleyan University Press