Surviving the "Essex" tells the captivating story of a ship's crew battered by whale attack, broken by four months at sea, and forced--out of necessity--to make meals of their fellow survivors. Exploring the Rashomon-like Essex accounts that complicate and even contradict first mate Owen Chase's narrative, David O. Dowling examines the vital role of viewpoint in shaping how an event is remembered and delves into the ordeal's submerged history--the survivors' lives, ambitions, and motives, their pivotal actions during the ...
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Surviving the "Essex" tells the captivating story of a ship's crew battered by whale attack, broken by four months at sea, and forced--out of necessity--to make meals of their fellow survivors. Exploring the Rashomon-like Essex accounts that complicate and even contradict first mate Owen Chase's narrative, David O. Dowling examines the vital role of viewpoint in shaping how an event is remembered and delves into the ordeal's submerged history--the survivors' lives, ambitions, and motives, their pivotal actions during the desperate moments of the wreck itself, and their will to reconcile those actions in the short- and long-term aftermath of this storied event. Mother of all whale tales, Surviving the "Essex" acts as a sequel to Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, while probing deeper into the nature of trauma and survival accounts, an extreme form of notoriety, and the impact that the story had on Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick. Hardcover is un-jacketed.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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VG. Size: 6 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches; Light cover wear. Text free of highlighting and writing. "As many readers know, Moby-Dick was inspired by the shipwreck of the whaling ship Essex in 1820. As David O. Dowling discusses in Surviving the Essex, the wreck of the Essex was an early example of prurient tabloid scandal, capturing the imagination of readers eager, then as now, for stories of heroism and villainy in the face of moral dilemmas."-The Washington Post 240 pages. Essex (Whaleship), Shipwrecks--Pacific Ocean, Shipwreck survival--Pacific Ocean.
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Very Good. Unused, no dust jacket, minor shelf wear to outer edges, otherwise in very good condition. Library binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Contains: Unspecified. America and the Sea.
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Very Good. No dust jacket, otherwise the book is in very good condition. Library binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Contains: Unspecified. America and the Sea.
