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In the Heart of the Seaby Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0006531202 (0-00-653120-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Heart of the Sea : The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby Dick'Book summary:The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was, in part, that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a boisterous sperm whale. The story that inspired Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick has a lot going for it--derring-do, cannibalism, rescue--and Philbrick proves an amiable and well-informed narrator, providing both context and detail. We learn about the importance and mechanics of blubber production--a vital source of oil--and we get the nuts and bolts of harpooning and life aboard whalers. We are spared neither the nitty-gritty of open boats nor the sucking of human bones dry.
By sticking to the tried and tested Longitude formula, Philbrick has missed a slight trick or two. The epicenter of the whaling industry was Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod; most of the whales were in the Pacific, necessitating a huge journey around the southernmost tip of South America. We never learn why no one ever tried to create an alternative whaling capital somewhere nearer. Similarly, Philbrick tells us that the story of the Essex was well known to Americans for decades, but he never explores how such legends fade from our consciousness. Philbrick would no doubt reply that such questions were beyond his remit, and you can't exactly accuse him of skimping on his research. By any standard, 50 pages of footnotes impress, though he wears his learning lightly. He doesn't get bogged down in turgid detail, and his narrative rattles along at a nice pace. When the storyline is as good as this, you can't really ask for more. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
More editions of In the Heart of the Sea:
- In the Heart of the Sea: ISBN 0007105185 (0-00-710518-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - In the Heart of the Sea : The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby Dick: ISBN 0002570572 (0-00-257057-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - In the Heart of the Sea: ISBN 0002572125 (0-00-257212-5)
Hardcover, Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex: ISBN 0606217819 (0-606-21781-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media - In the Heart of the Sea : The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby Dick: ISBN 0006531202 (0-00-653120-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- In the Heart of the Sea: ISBN 0007105185 (0-00-710518-5)
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In the Heart of the Seaby Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0141001828 (0-14-100182-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Heart of the Sea'Book summary:The appeal of Dava Sobel's Longitude was, in part, that it illuminated a little-known piece of history through a series of captivating incidents and engaging personalities. Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, examining the 19th-century Pacific whaling industry through the arc of the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a boisterous sperm whale. The story that inspired Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick has a lot going for it--derring-do, cannibalism, rescue--and Philbrick proves an amiable and well-informed narrator, providing both context and detail. We learn about the importance and mechanics of blubber production--a vital source of oil--and we get the nuts and bolts of harpooning and life aboard whalers. We are spared neither the nitty-gritty of open boats nor the sucking of human bones dry.
By sticking to the tried and tested Longitude formula, Philbrick has missed a slight trick or two. The epicenter of the whaling industry was Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod; most of the whales were in the Pacific, necessitating a huge journey around the southernmost tip of South America. We never learn why no one ever tried to create an alternative whaling capital somewhere nearer. Similarly, Philbrick tells us that the story of the Essex was well known to Americans for decades, but he never explores how such legends fade from our consciousness. Philbrick would no doubt reply that such questions were beyond his remit, and you can't exactly accuse him of skimping on his research. By any standard, 50 pages of footnotes impress, though he wears his learning lightly. He doesn't get bogged down in turgid detail, and his narrative rattles along at a nice pace. When the storyline is as good as this, you can't really ask for more. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whaleby Chase Nickerson, Thomas Philbrick, Nathaniel Philbrick , Thomas NickersonISBN 0140437967 (0-14-043796-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale'Book summary:In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex, thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific, was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members floating in three small boats for ninety days. The incident was the Titanic story of its day, and provided the inspiration for Melville's Moby-Dick. The Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by the ship's first mate, Owen Chase, has long been the fundamental account of the Essex's doomed voyage. But in 1980, a new account of the disaster was discovered, penned by Thomas Nickerson, the fifteen-year-old cabin boy who was steering the ship when the whale attacked. Now, Nickerson's harrowing tale can be read alongside Chase's in one authoritative edition, which includes more than a dozen other accounts from articles and newspapers, many of which have never appeared in book form. [via]
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and Warby Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0007228619 (0-00-722861-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War'Book summary:Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award? winning In the Heart of the Sea , hailed as ?spellbinding? by Time magazine. In Mayflower , Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. From the Mayflower ?s arduous Atlantic crossing to the eruption of King Philip?s War between colonists and natives decades later, Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims a fifty-five-year epic, at once tragic and heroic, that still resonates with us today. [via]
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- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War: ISBN 0143111973 (0-14-311197-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Mayflower : A Story of Courage, Community, and War: ISBN 0007151276 (0-00-715127-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War: ISBN 0007228619 (0-00-722861-9)
Softcover, Zondervan
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War: ISBN 0143111973 (0-14-311197-3)
The Mayflower & the Pilgrims' New Worldby Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0399247955 (0-399-24795-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New Englandby William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Church, Thomas Philbrick, Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0143104985 (0-14-310498-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New England'Book summary:The most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony?the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick?s New York Times bestseller Mayflower[via]
National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his father, Thomas Philbrick, present the most significant and readable original works that were used in the writing of Mayflower, offering a definitive look at a crucial era of America?s history. The selections include William Bradford?s ?Of Plymouth Plantation? (1651), the most comprehensive of all contemporary accounts of settlement in seventeenth-century America; Benjamin Church?s ?Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip?s War 1716,? an eye-opening account from Church?s field notes from battle; and much more. Providing explanatory notes for every piece, the editors have vividly re- created the world of seventeenth-century New England for anyone interested in the early history of our nation.More editions of The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New England:
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0142000086 (0-14-200008-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:One of the most widely-read and respected books in all American literature, Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his unrelenting pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter. A novel blending high-seas romantic adventure, symbolic allegory, and the conflicting ideals of heroic determination and undying hatred, Moby Dick is also revered for its historical accounts of the whaling industry of the 1800s. [via]
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The Private Journal of William Reynolds: United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842by Thomas Philbrick, William Reynolds, Nathaniel Philbrick , UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITIONISBN 0143039059 (0-14-303905-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Revenge of the Whaleby Thomas Philbrick, William Reynolds, Nathaniel Philbrick , UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITIONISBN 0142400688 (0-14-240068-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essexby Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0606296689 (0-606-29668-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.s. Exploring Expeditionby Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0142004839 (0-14-200483-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.s. Exploring Expedition'Book summary:The dramatic story of the largest voyage of discovery in the history of the world -- and the last such all-sail convoy. Headed by the controversial Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, and consisting of six sailing vessels and 346 men, the 'Ex. Ex. ' (the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838--42) represented the largest voyage of discovery in the history of the world. Four years later, after losing two ships and seventy-one men, the expedition had logged 87,000 miles, surveyed 280 Pacific islands, and created 180 charts -- some of which were still being used as late as World War II. The Expedition's scientists collected 4000 zoological specimens, including 2000 new species, and thousands of ethnographic artifacts that would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. The Expedition also mapped 800 miles of coastline in the Pacific Northwest, providing the federal government with the information it needed to stake its claim on the Oregon Territory. The Expedition's crowning achievement was the discovery of a new southern continent that Wilkes would name Antarctica. The Expedition ended in a dramatic series of court martials, with Wilkes and his crew levelling accusations of misconduct against each other. [via]
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- Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.s. Exploring Expedition: ISBN 0007121156 (0-00-712115-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.s. Exploring Expedition: ISBN 0606334696 (0-606-33469-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.s. Exploring Expedition: ISBN 0142004839 (0-14-200483-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.s. Exploring Expedition: ISBN 0007121156 (0-00-712115-6)
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842by Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 0007121164 (0-00-712116-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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- Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842: ISBN 0007180217 (0-00-718021-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Sea of Glory : America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842: ISBN 0007121164 (0-00-712116-4)
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- Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842: ISBN 0007180217 (0-00-718021-7)
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