The Shipwreck Of The Whaleship Essex Warbler Classics Annotated Edition

Author : Owen Chase
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ISBN 13 : 9781957240718
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) written by Owen Chase and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This faithful Warbler Classics edition contains First Mate Owen Chase's riveting original 1821 account of the sinking of the Essex, two other accounts, a chronology, crew bios, and Herman Melville's notes on the Essex.

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket written by Owen Chase and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket" by Owen Chase. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Owen Chase
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 1627886184
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Complete Illustrated Edition written by Owen Chase and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Owen Chase's memoir which inspired Moby-Dick and In the Heart of the Sea, the major motion picture from Ron Howard, released December 2015. Owen Chase was the first mate on the ill-fated American whaling ship Essex, which was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1820. The crew spent months at sea in leaking boats and endured the blazing sun, attacks by killer whales, and lack of food. The men were forced to resort to cannibalism before the final eight survivors were rescued. Herman Melville based his 1851 novel, Moby-Dick, on the sinking. Chase recorded the tale of the ship's sinking and the following events with harrowing clarity in the Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex. "I turned around and saw him about one hundred rods [500 m or 550 yards] directly ahead of us, coming down with twice his ordinary speed of around 24 knots (44 km/h), and it appeared with tenfold fury and vengeance in his aspect. The surf flew in all directions about him with the continual violent thrashing of his tail. His head about half out of the water, and in that way he came upon us, and again struck the ship." - Owen Chase. Filled with art, photographs, maps, and artifacts, this is a richly illustrated edition of Chase's memoir, augmented with memoirs of other participants, as well as the perspectives of historians, contemporary and modern. "If you are interested in a coffee-table book which covers the importance of the whaling industry and the wreck that influenced Herman Melville to write the American classic Moby-Dick, then get the Complete Illustrated Edition: Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex." - William Connery, Author of Civil War Northern Virginia 1861

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher : SeaWolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781950435968
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Wreck of the Whaleship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by SeaWolf Press. This book was released on 2020-02-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex recounts the story of the American whaler Essex from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. In 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific Ocean under the command of Captain George Pollard Jr., she was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale.

Author : Howard Brinkley
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1629172014
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex written by Howard Brinkley and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1820, a sperm whale attacked and sunk the Whaleship Essex. 2000 miles off the coast of South America, the crew knew it would be a true feat to survive and make it to shore--any shore. It’s story became legendary; Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about it; Edgar Allen Poe incorporated details of it in his only novel; and, most notoriously of them all, it served as the inspiration for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. This account retraces the history of one of the most famous shipwrecks of all time.

Author : Owen Chase
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ISBN 13 : 9780844618425
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by . This book was released on 1983-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher : Harcourt Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780544313279
Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by Harcourt Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible sea adventure that inspired "Moby Dick" is recounted by one ofits few survivors. 2 maps. 8-page photo insert.

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20 November 1820, just south of the equator, the whaling ship Essex, out of Nantucket, spotted a 'shoal' of sperm whales. It was a fine clear day, about eight in the morning. Two whaling boats, lightly built for rowing speed, were lowered from the Essex. The crew pursued and harpooned tree of the whales, whereupon the largest of them - some 85 feet long - rammed the Essex twice in ten minutes and 'stove in her bows'. This remarkable incident was followed by an epic three-month journey in open boats across storm-tossed seas - a feat of navigation and survival that rivals those of Shackleton and Bligh. Only eight men survived, sustained by eating six of those who died. Twenty-three-year-old Owen Chase was first mate of the Essex. His narrative of these events makes compulsive reading. This edition also includes memoirs by another crew member and by ship's captain, as well as a facsimile of Herman Melville's notes on Chase's account. Capturing all the elements of an ancient and powerful tragedy, this book is a thrilling tale of survival - as well as a frightful illustration of man's darkest impulses.