The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale

The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale

First-Person Accounts

Thomas Nickerson その他
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The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea
 
In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. Through drastic measures, eight men survived to reveal this astonishing tale. The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase, has long been the essential account of the Essex’s doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned late in life by Thomas Nickerson, who had been the fifteen-year-old cabin boy of the ship. This discovery has vastly expanded and clarified the history of an event as grandiose in its time as the Titanic
 
This edition presents Nickerson’s never-before-published chronicle alongside Chase’s version. Also included are the most important other contemporary accounts of the incident, Melville’s notes in his copy of the Chase narrative, and journal entries by Emerson and Thoreau.

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ジャンル
伝記/自叙伝
発売日
2000年
5月1日
言語
EN
英語
ページ数
256
ページ
発行者
Penguin Publishing Group
販売元
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
サイズ
1.6
MB

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