The morning of 20 November 1820 was a doomed one for the Essex. Over 1000 miles from land, she was sunk, rammed by a sperm whale. Only eight sailors survived th

The Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex was the inspiration for Melville's Moby Dick.

The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In

A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.

This faithful Warbler Classics edition contains First Mate Owen Chase's riveting original 1821 account of the sinking of the Essex, two other accounts, a chrono