![]() In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history. 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. 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." "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. ![]()
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