In the Heart of the Sea - Book

A superb retelling of the tragic story surrounding the 1820 loss of the whale ship Essex, rammed and sunk by a whale in the South Pacific.

Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction. In 1819 the 238-ton Essex sailed from Nantucket on a routine whaling voyage, and fifteen months later she was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale, the event that inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Philbrick, a National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist, tells the full story of the disaster and its aftermath. The book was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 2015. A gripping read for any sailor or fan of maritime history. This is a 293-page paperback.