Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir That Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick Tapa dura - 2015

Zenith Press, 2015. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2015. Owen Chase was the first mate on the ill-fated American whaling ship Essex, which was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1820. The crew spent months at sea in leaking boats and endured the blazing sun, attacks by killer whales, and lack of food. The men were forced to resort to cannibalism before the final eight survivors were rescued. Herman Melville based his 1851 novel, Moby-Dick, on the sinking. Chase recorded the tale of the ship's sinking and the following events with harrowing clarity in the Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex. "I turned around and saw him about one hundred rods [500 m or 550 yards] directly ahead of us, coming down with twice his ordinary speed of around 24 knots (44 km/h), and it appeared with tenfold fury and vengeance in his aspect. The surf flew in all directions about him with the continual violent thrashing of his tail. His head about half out of the water, and in that way he came upon us, and again… Leer más

Zenith Press, March 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition/ First Printing, complete number line. A little shelf worn but looks unread. DJ has some edgewear along the top of the front cover but no tears or chips.

Zenith Press, 2017. Hardcover. New.

Zenith Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 10x9x0. No wear. Zenith Press, 2015. Hardcover First Edition,First Printing. The book condition is Fine. The dust jacket condition is Fine.