Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket
An edition of Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket (1821)
which was attacked and finally destroyed by a large spermaceti-whale, in the Pacific Ocean
By Owen Chase,Thomas Macy,Herman Melville,Lemuel Shaw
Publish Date
1821
Publisher
W.B. Gilley
Language
eng
Pages
128
Description:
subjects: Sperm whale hunting, Shipwrecks, Shipwreck survival, Essex (Whale-ship), Essex (Whaleship)
People: Herman Melville (1819-1891), Owen Chase
Places: Pacific Ocean