Name: The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk by a Whale (Penguin Classics) (en Inglés)
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Author: Owen Chase; Thomas Nickerson
ISBN: 9780140437966

portada The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk by a Whale (Penguin Classics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Penguin Classics

Autor

Owen Chase; Thomas Nickerson

Año

2000

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0140437967

ISBN13

9780140437966

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xix - c. 1800-c. 1899
Historia de américa

The Loss of the Ship Essex Sunk by a Whale (Penguin Classics) (en Inglés)

Owen Chase; Thomas Nickerson (Autor) · Penguin Classics · Tapa Blanda

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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 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.