Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Complete Illustrated Edition: The Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir That Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (645 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 076034812X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Gilbert) King's additions to his tale are a fitting tribute." - Sailing"This is a handsome volume, of which Chase would have been proud, and Melville would have acclaimed for its vivid illustrations that make realistic the long gone fishery he described. It stands on its own merit as a beautiful book to tell Chase's tale again, and bring back visual reminders of a sea trade that changed the world (and literature), and is now gone forever." - Columbus Dispatch"If you enjoy tales of the sea as much as I do, you'll find this revamped edition of Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex an excellent addition to your library." - Passage Maker. "His narrative comes to life
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. The men were forced to resort to cannibalism before the final eight survivors were rescued. The crew spent months at sea in leaking boats and endured the blazing sun, attacks by killer whales, and lack of food. 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 di
Owen Chase was first mate of the whale ship Essex, which was struck and sunk by asperm whale on November 20, 1820. This book, published in 1821, inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick.Gilbert Anthony King is an American writer and photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (
Nice coffee table book Joshva Nice coffee table book, it has a bit of a.d.d jumping back and forth from excerpts by Melville and other whaling stories to Owen chases account. Not a smooth read but great to look at and skim. Worth the price.. "then started moving toward the ship at great speed and rammed the vessel with its head" according to Tom Miller. On November 20, 1820 a small but intrepid ship named the Essex, captained by James Pollard and out of Nantucket was hunting whales in the Pacific Ocean. She had just dispatched her whale boats which were closing in on a pod of whales when the hunter became the prey. A bull whale, some eighty-five feet in length, appeared on the surface of the ocean not far off the bow of the ship. It paused as if studying a target, then started moving towa. Brian J McNamara said A whale of a tale, and its all true. Owen Chase's memoir has been published in several various forms since he originally penned his account of the ESSEX disaster, but what sets this version apart is the inclusion of articles, anecdotes, and images that create an immersive experience for the reader. Of particular interest are images of artifacts and contemporary paintings associated with the American whaling industry. While reading through Mr. Chase's account and the accompany