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Owen Chase was the first mate on the Essex, the Nantucket whaler that was holed and sunk in 1820 by an enraged sperm whale twice ramming the ship. With no charts and few provisions, the crew escaped on three lifeboats; months later, having resorted to cannibalism, only eight men had survived. Chase's account evokes the terror of the attack and the men's endurance on the open Pacific Ocean, a 'gallant saga' which inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. Chase's narrative was originally published in 1821.
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Owen Chase became the first mate of the whaleship Essex on 12 August 1819. A survivor of one of the most dramatic maritime disasters of the nineteenth-century, his account of the ship's long and perilous journey has become a classic.
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'this year's equivalent of THE PERFECT STORM' Christopher Frayling in the Observer The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex was reviewed in the Times Metro 15/16 April
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- Publication date2000
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- ISBN 13 9780747263630
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