Author: PHILBRICK, Nathaniel
Title: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Description: New York, Viking Press, 2000. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue and black paper over boards with silver spine lettering. xvi, 302pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Tight and internally fine, with just faintest wear to binding; lacks dust jacket. A tight and nice later (15th) printing of the popular chronicle of the 1820 disaster that provided background material for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" and became the 2015 adventure film of the same name. Just a nice reading copy, from the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81). .

Keywords: Nautical


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