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In the heart of the sea the tragedy of the whaleship Essex /

In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west,...

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Uniform Title:	Revenge of the whale
Main Author:	Philbrick, Nathaniel
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, 2000. New York : 2000.
Physical Description:	xvi, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects:	Essex (Whaleship) Shipwrecks -- Pacific Ocean. Shipwrecks. Survival. Shipwreck survival. Survival at sea. Airplane crash survival. Whaling.

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Published: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012

Description: 319 pages ; 23 cm.

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In the heart of the sea the tragedy of the whaleship Essex /

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