In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
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In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
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- In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
- Title remainder
- the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
- Statement of responsibility
- Nathaniel Philbrick
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex, the inspiration for Melville's great classic, Moby Dick. In 1820, the Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats
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- TEFMT
- Dewey number
- 910/.9164
- Form of composition
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- Format of music
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- LC call number
- G530.E77
- LC item number
- P45 2015ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
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- Music parts
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- PerformerNote
- Read by Scott Brick
- Target audience
- adult
- Transposition and arrangement
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