| Owen Chase - History - 2015 - 227 pages
The Extraordinary and distressing memoir that inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. | |
| Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 256 pages
The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea ... | |
| Virginia Loh-Hagan - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2018 - 32 pages
Could you survive being shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean? Tracked by a murderous whale? Whaleship Essex: Disaster at Sea in the True Survival series explores the shocking ... | |
| Jil Fine - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 52 pages
Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship "Essex" by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds. | |
| Nathaniel Philbrick - History - 2001 - 320 pages
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick ... | |
| Graham Faiella - History - 2003 - 68 pages
Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Herman Melville's novel, "Moby Dick," which was published in the 1850s and based on the author's own experience at sea. | |
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