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Book Review of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
reviewed From the Heart of the Sea on


Interesting historical account of the Nantucket Island whaling industry and the sinking of the whaler Essex in the early 1820s. This event was apparently the inspiration for Melvilles's Moby Dick.