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Philbrick, Nathaniel In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Penguin May 1, 2001 0-14-100182-8 / 9780141001821 Paperback Very Good
The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was, in part, that it illuminated a li ttle-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and e ngaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is cer tainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a boister ous sperm whale. The story that inspired Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dic k has a lot going for it--derring-do, cannibalism, rescue--and Philbrick pr oves an amiable and well-informed narrator, providing both context and deta il. We learn about the importance and mechanics of blubber production--a vi tal source of oil--and we get the nuts and bolts of harpooning and life abo ard whalers. We are spared neither the nitty-gritty of open boats nor the s ucking of human bones dry.
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600.00 JPY
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