Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex
In 1819, the American whaler Essex was sailing deep into the great equatorial hunting grounds of the Pacific when it was destroyed by a maddened sperm whale. By all reports, the 85-foot whale deliberately rammed the ship twice and sank it. The incident, which occurred in the same year that Herman Me...
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Language: | English |
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Dover Publications,
[2015]
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