Exploring Nathaniel Philbrick's In "The Heart of the Sea"

Herman Melville wrote the classic novel Moby Dick in the mid-1800s, but while most people these days have heard of Moby Dick, far fewer people have heard of the whaleship Essex; in the early 1800s, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by a sperm whale that they were hunting, causing the ship to sink, and leaving the men in the much smaller whale boats intended to be used for catching whales themselves. These men did their best to navigate through the ocean over the next 93 days, and after

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