In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
de Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Usado
- Aceptable
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- Estado
- Aceptable
- Librería
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Viking, 2000. 5th or later Edition . Soft cover. Fine. (19th) Very large, sturdy softcover, glossy wrappers with black night and blue waves to bottom edges, address label at bottom front end paper, 302 lightly browned pages including two glossy illustrated sections. Very light wear to spine top edge. Near Very Fine.
Sinopsis
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents-including a long-lost account written by the ship's cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.
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El Sep 10 2018, un lector dijo:
The use of time to show the tragedy offers a far better story to the reader than any action would.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 57234
- Título
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- Autor
- Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 5th or later Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- Viking
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Palabras clave
- Moby Dick Whaling Nantucket
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Ocean/Sea;
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Callaghan Books South
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New Port Richey, Florida
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