301 pages
English language
Published May 6, 2015
"The true events behind Moby Dick ... In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea, and now, its epic adaptation for the screen will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon." --Amazon.com.
Great, great book. I read it a long time ago, but it's a book I definitely recommend to others. Grabs you and pulls you in. It was recommended to me by an English major. A historical thriller.
A very good read. I'll be interested to see how it translates into a movie. I suspect large parts of it will be dropped or changed.
Oddly, there is a part of me that thinks I may have read this before. The execution of Owen Coffin is particularly memorable.
