In the heart of the sea
Subtitle: the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780143126812
Subjects: Shipwreck survival; Shipwrecks; Essex (Whaleship)
Other titles: Tragedy of the whaleship Essex
Description: "The true events behind Moby Dick ... 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. 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." --Amazon.com.
Notes: "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of the Viking Putnam Inc.,

2000.  Published in Penguin Books 2001. This edition published 2015. -- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages  [279]-289) and index.