Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex write by Owen Chase. This book was released on 2016-04-12. Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South American in 1820. Of the twenty-man crew, only eight survived the horrific ordeal; some men were stranded on an island, all remaining crew were forced to eat food tainted by seawater and drink their own urine, and finally, when members of the crew started dying, those still alive resorted to cannibalism until they were rescued. Narrative of the Whale-ship Essex inspired Herman Melville to write his enduring classic Moby-Dick in 1851; it also inspired the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, based on the 2000 best-selling book of the same name.
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale write by Thomas Nickerson. This book was released on 2000-05-01. The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Stove by a Whale
Stove by a Whale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stove by a Whale write by Thomas Farel Heffernan. This book was released on 1990-09. Stove by a Whale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.
The Essex and the Whale
The Essex and the Whale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essex and the Whale write by R. D. Madison. This book was released on 2016-03-28. The Essex and the Whale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This fascinating anthology introduces readers to the literary side of Herman Melville's whaling world with an unprecedented collection of the original whaling texts from which Melville drew to create his masterpiece, Moby-Dick. The notorious 1820 sinking of the whaleship Essex inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, as recounted in Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex—now a major motion picture. But how exactly did Melville transmute the historic tragedy of the Essex into what is arguably the "Great American Novel"? Here, for the first time, R.D. Madison collects together Melville's personal "library" of whaling and whale-lore into a single volume and presents these primary sources in a way that readers can readily see how a horrific whaling tragedy became a literary masterpiece. But where did Moby-Dick begin? Prompted by sailor-author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Melville supplemented his own firsthand experience as a whaleman in the South Pacific with "libraries" of books that he "swum through" to create his whaling masterpiece. Scholars and lay readers alike have long wondered how he did it, and over the past 60 years, a very tight theory of inspiration and creation has emerged. It is very likely wrong. This volume gathers together for the first time all of the main texts that Melville encountered, including the accounts of the unique sinking of the Essex by a sperm whale that provided the climax for Moby-Dick. Melville scholar R. D. Madison examines what critics have said about Melville's response to the sinking and offers the challenging thesis that Melville did not even begin the book at all until spurred on by Dana in the spring of 1850.
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex write by Owen Chase. This book was released on 1999. The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The morning of 20 November 1820 was a doomed one for the Essex. Over 1000 miles from land, she was sunk, rammed by a sperm whale. Only eight sailors survived the following three months of despair and debilitating exhaustion at sea - Owen Chase was one of these, and this is his journal of shipwreck, camaraderie and cannibalism.
