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In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex

Philbrick, Nathaniel (Author). Brick, Scott, (narrator.).

Summary: This is 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. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, they clung to life and, one by one, succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear. When eight survivors were retrieved off the coast of Chile, they had sailed almost 4,500 nautical miles across the Pacific.--Container.

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  • ISBN: 0736659722
  • ISBN: 9780736659727
  • Physical Description: 9 compact discs (approximately 10 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
    sound disc
  • Edition: Library edition.
  • Publisher: Newport Beach, CA : Books on Tape, [2000]

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Participant or Performer Note: Read by Scott Brick.

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Subject: Audiobooks
Essex (Whaleship)
Shipwrecks Pacific Ocean
Shipwreck survival
Survival at sea
Airplane crash survival
Survival
Topic Heading: Audiobooks, unabridged.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity BOT-CD 910.9164 PHI 2000 (Text) 31001101060730 Adult Audiobook Available -
Hughes Library CD 910.452 PHI (Text) 32378003888858 Adult Audiobook Available -

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