Who's in it:
Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson
Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson
What's it all about (book blurb from Goodreads):
In
the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the
wreck of the whaleship Essex—an event as mythic in its own century as
the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of
Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this
epic story to its rightful place in American history.
In 1820,
the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for
whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South
Pacific, it was repeatedly 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. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, the
survivors clung to life as one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst,
disease, and fear.
In the Heart of the Sea tells perhaps the
greatest sea story ever. Philbrick interweaves his account of this
extraordinary ordeal of ordinary men with a wealth of whale lore and
with a brilliantly detailed portrait of the lost, unique community of
Nantucket whalers. Impeccably researched and beautifully told, the book
delivers the ultimate portrait of man against nature, drawing on a
remarkable range of archival and modern sources, including a long-lost
account by the ship's cabin boy. At once a literary companion and a
page-turner that speaks to the same issues of class, race, and man's
relationship to nature that permeate the works of Melville, In the Heart
of the Sea will endure as a vital work of American history.
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