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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
A harrowing tale as told by American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the Nantucket whaler Essex in the Pacific Ocean in 1820 after being rammed by a whale - setting the entire crew (almost all in their teens + 20s) adrift at sea. Few of the sailors were to survive the ordeal. The story was one of the inspirations for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. I could barely put this book down. Published in 2000.
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