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The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk By a Whale (Pe... by Nickerson, Thomas Paperback
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- ISBN
- 9780140437966
- EAN
- 9780140437966
- Book Title
- Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale : First-Person Accounts
- Item Length
- 7.7in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Transportation, History
- Topic
- United States / 19th Century, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Essays & Travelogues, Historical
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140437967
ISBN-13
9780140437966
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale : First-Person Accounts
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 19th Century, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Essays & Travelogues, Historical
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Transportation, History
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
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G530.E77l67 2000
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Twelfth Grade
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Up
Table of Content
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale - Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and Others Edited and Introduced by Thomas Philbrick and Nathaniel Philbrick Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading THE ESSEX NARRATIVES First Reports 1. The Paddack Letter 2. The Macy Letter The Mate's Story 1. Chase's Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex 2. Herman Melville's Annotation of Chase's NarrativeThe Boy's Story 1. Nickerson's "Desultory Sketches" 2. Nickerson's Letter to Lewis The Captain's Story 1. Excerpt from Ridgely's Letterbook 2. Excerpt from Wilke's Autobiography 3. Excerpt from Tyreman and Bennet's JournalThe Boatsteerer's Story 1. An Account of the Loss of the Essex 2. Excerpt from the Journal of the Surry Extracts: Memories and Apocrypha Notes
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
00-020147
Dewey Decimal
910/.9164
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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