The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex - The History of the Shipwreck That Inspired Moby Dick

In 1820, a sperm whale attacked and sunk the Whaleship Essex. 2000 miles off the coast of South America, the crew knew it would be a true feat to survive and make it to shore--any shore.

It's story became legendary; Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about it; Edgar Allen Poe incorporated details of it in his only novel; and, most notoriously of them all, it served as the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

This account retraces the history of one of the most famous shipwrecks of all time.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Brinkley
• Assisted by: HistoryCaps (Editor)
• Publisher: Golgotha Press, Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781629172019
• ISBN: 978-1-62917-201-9
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 123 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous