In the heart of the sea the tragedy of the whaleship Essex
(2015)
Nonfiction
Audiobook CD
Call Numbers:
CD/910.9164/PHILBRICK,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Penguin Audio, [2015]
EDITION
Unabridged; Movie tie-in edition
DESCRIPTION
8 audio discs (approximately 510 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
9781611763577, 1611763576
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from web page
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
Compact discs
Unabridged
Read by Scott Brick