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* Nathaniel Philbrick Revenge of the Whale: the True Story of the Whaleship Essex.

Publication: The Horn Book Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JAN-03
Format: Online - approximately 378 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
164 pp. Putnam 9/02 ISBN 0-399-23795-X 16.99 (Middle School, High School)

In the tradition of harrowing accounts of Shackleton's Antarctic expedition and the Donner Party's Sierra Nevada trek, Philbrick brings readers onboard for the tragic voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. In November 1820, a sixty-ton sperm whale rammed and sank the Essex, leaving the...

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