As they pulled alongside they saw piles of bones in the bottom of the boat, at least two skeletons' worth, with two survivors - almost skeletons themselves - sucking the marrow from the bones of their dead ship-mates. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for In The Heart Of The Sea: Tragedy Of The Whaleship Essex-Nathaniel Philbrick HCDJ at the best. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of. Three months after the Essex was broken up, the whaleship Dauphin, cruising off the coast of South America, spotted a small boat in the open ocean. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged sperm whale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of the most dramatic sea stories of all time: the twenty sailors who survived the wreck took to three small boats (one of which was again attacked by a whale) and only eight of them survived their subsequent 90-day ordeal, after resorting to cannibalising their mates. The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for 'Moby-Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy. Philbrickâs narrative draws on several first-person accounts, one of whichfrom a 14-year-old cabin boy named Thomas Nickersonwas unavailable to the public until 1984.
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