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In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel PhilbrickIn the Heart of the Sea – CLICK HERE
- Awards: National Book Award for Nonfiction (2000), Ambassador Book Award for American Studies (2001), Massachusetts Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2001), ALA Alex Award (2001)
- Characters: George Pollard, Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, Benjamin Lawrence, Matthew Joy
- Places: Nantucket, Massachusetts, South Pacific
- Format: paperback, 302 pages
- ISBN: 9780141001821 (0141001828)
- Genres: history, adventure, historical, survival, biography, maritime, adult
- Release date: May 1, 2001
- Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Language: english
- Publisher: Penguin Books
About The Book
« With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed — at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cat-head on the port bow… »
In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex — an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history.
In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, the survivors clung to life as one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear.
Philbrick interweaves his account of this extraordinary ordeal of ordinary men with a wealth of whale lore and with a brilliantly detailed portrait of the lost, unique community of Nantucket whalers. Impeccably researched and beautifully told, the book delivers the ultimate portrait of man against nature, drawing on a remarkable range of archival and modern sources, including a long-lost account by the ship’s cabin boy.
At once a literary companion and a page-turner that speaks to the same issues of class, race, and man’s relationship to nature that permeate the works of Melville, In the Heart of the Sea will endure as a vital work of American history.
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