THE WRECK OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX
Subtitle: A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF ONE OF HISTORY'S MOST EXTRAORDINARY MARITIME DISASTERS., BY OWEN CHASE, FIRST MATE.
Publisher: Headline
Published: 1999
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780747274049
First sentence: The town of Nantucket, in the State of Massachusetts, contains about eight thousand inhabitants.