The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex

A First-Hand Account of One of History's Most Extraordinary Maritime Disasters

by Owen Chase

208 pages· 1999· ISBN 9780747274049
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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.

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