Stove by a whale : Owen Chase and the Essex /

A documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale. This book contains a harrowing account by the ship's first mate of the survivors' three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that directly inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heffernan, Thomas Farel, 1933-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown, CT : [New York] : Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by Columbia University Press, [1981]
Edition:[First edition.]
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