In the Heart of the Sea - The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

Penguin Books

2001

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780141001821

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents-including a long-lost account written by the ship's cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

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5 (Perfeito)

História mais dura que imaginava...

O livro pode ser dividido em 2 partes:
1) O naufrágio do Essex, sobrevivência da tripulação e as vidas deles depois; e
2) Aspectos usados nesse caso no livro Moby Dick.

Certamente muita gente que gostou desse livro, o fez por causa do segundo item. No meu caso, aproveitei os dois e já comecei minha segunda tentativa de ouvir essa obra em inglês. Já deu pra perceber que tenho base muito melhor pra tentar ir até o fim desta vez... Veremos.