Stove by a whale : Owen Chase and the Essex / Thomas Farel Heffernan.
A documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale. This book contains a harrowing account by the ship's first mate of the survivors' three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that directly inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Middletown, CT : [New York] :
Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Columbia University Press,
[1981]
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| Edition: | [First edition.] |
| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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G545.C48 H43 1981eb
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