Stove by a whale : owen chase and the essex
The "exciting tale" of the first documented sinking of a ship by a whale-and the survivor's narrative that inspired Moby-Dick (Choice). "On November 20, 1820, a great whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex, two thousand miles west of Ecuador. Owen Chase, her first mate, and twe...
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Wesleyan University Press
2020
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