Wreck Of The Whale Ship Essex The Complete Illustrated Edition

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher : Zenith Press
ISBN 13 : 076034812X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( 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 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Extraordinary and distressing memoir that inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1944529047
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South American in 1820. Of the twenty-man crew, only eight survived the horrific ordeal; some men were stranded on an island, all remaining crew were forced to eat food tainted by seawater and drink their own urine, and finally, when members of the crew started dying, those still alive resorted to cannibalism until they were rescued. Narrative of the Whale-ship Essex inspired Herman Melville to write his enduring classic Moby-Dick in 1851; it also inspired the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, based on the 2000 best-selling book of the same name.

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 : Owen Chase
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486808793
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex written by Owen Chase and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three eyewitness accounts of a lethal attack by a sperm whale against a whaling ship in the Pacific in 1819, the incident that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick — as well as the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings.

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519647191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex - Illustrated - NARRATIVE of the MOST EXTRAORDINAR written by Owen Chase and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illustrated edition of the firsthand account of the whaler Essex's attack and sinking by a sperm whale, the inspiration for Moby-Dick. Includes a new introduction and supplementary extracts from a variety of sources"--

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780747274049
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The morning of 20 November 1820 was a doomed one for the Essex. Over 1000 miles from land, she was sunk, rammed by a sperm whale. Only eight sailors survived the following three months of despair and debilitating exhaustion at sea - Owen Chase was one of these, and this is his journal of shipwreck, camaraderie and cannibalism.

Author : Thomas Farel Heffernan
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819562449
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stove by a Whale written by Thomas Farel Heffernan and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1990-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.

Author : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848672
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Medusa written by Jonathan Miles and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling . . . captivating” account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic—a tragedy that inspired an unforgettable masterpiece of Western art (The Boston Globe). In June 1816, the Medusa set sail. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate West African coast. During the chaotic evacuation a privileged few claimed the lifeboats, while 147 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft that was soon cut loose by the boats that had pledged to tow it to safety. Those on the boats made it ashore and undertook a two-hundred-mile trek through the sweltering Sahara, but conditions were far worse on the drifting raft. Crazed, parched, and starving, the diminishing band fell into mayhem. When rescue arrived thirteen days later, only fifteen were alive. Among the handful of survivors were two men whose bestselling account of the maritime disaster scandalized Europe and inspired promising artist Théodore Géricault, who threw himself into a study of the Medusa tragedy, turning it into a vast canvas in his painting, The Raft of the Medusa. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, The Wreck of the Medusa is “a captivating gem about art’s relation to history” (Booklist) and ultimately “a thrilling read” (The Guardian).

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Owen Chase
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338708157X
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( 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 BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.