The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Betty Shepard, Owen Chase, Iola Haverstick

The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

Betty Shepard, Owen Chase, Iola Haverstick

128 pages first pub 1821 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir adventurous sad slow-paced
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On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail ope...

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