Library: In the Heart of the Sea: The Story

Reviews

New York Times Book Review
Bolster, W. J. (2000, Jun 04). Whaling away. New York Times Book Review, , 8-7.8.
The Economist review: The cannibalism of the sea
The economist review: The cannibalism of the sea. (2000, May 13). The Economist, 355, R3-R4.
Publishers Weekly
Abbott, C., Gold, S. F., & Rotella, M. (2000). In the heart of the sea: The tragedy of the whaleship essex. Publishers Weekly, 247(15), 88.
National Fisherman
Bedrosian, L. (2002). A whale of a tale. National Fisherman, 83(4), 7.
U.S. News & World Report
PEOPLE. (2000). U.S. News & World Report, 129(21), 20.

From the Publisher
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.

Nathaniel Philbrick
In 2000, Philbrick published the New York Times bestseller, In the Heart of the Sea, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. The book is the basis of the forthcoming Warner Bros. motion picture “Heart of the Sea,” directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Ben Wishaw, and Tom Holland, which is scheduled for release in March, 2015. The book also inspired a 2001 Dateline special on NBC as well as the 2010 2-hour PBS American Experience film “Into the Deep” by Ric Burns.

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