The Whaleship Essex
Subtitle: The True Story of Moby Dick (High Interest Books)
Publisher: Children's Press (CT)
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780516243283
Subjects: Shipwrecks; Juvenile literature; General; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Whaling; Pacific Ocean; History - Other; Essex (Whaleship)
First sentence: In the 1700s and 1800s, residents of the island of Nantucket were world famous for their whaling skills.