The Wreck of the Whaleship "Essex"

ISBN: 9780156006897

出版年: August 12, 1999

页数: 128 pages

定价: $ 14.63

内容简介

Melville used this famous tale as a source for Moby Dick (and it was recently recounted again in Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea), but here's the real thing: the first mate's account of how the Essex was sunk by a whale and how the survivors made it to South America in a small open boat.