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    Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex
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    Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex

    By Thomas Farel Heffernan

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    About this ebook

    The first documented sinking of a ship by a whale and a harrowing account by the ship's first mate of the survivors' three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWesleyan University Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9780819573773
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