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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is a book by American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the whaler Essex in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. The book was published by Viking Press on May 8, 2000, and won the 2000 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
- Nathaniel Philbrick
- 2000
Dec 28, 2015 · The men spent over three months at sea and had to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. Captain Pollard and Charles Ramsdell were discovered gnawing on the bones of their shipmates in one...
- Angela Cockayne
In the Heart of the Sea is a 2015 historical adventure drama film directed and co-produced by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Charles Leavitt and a story by Leavitt, Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver.
- Capitalistic Greed
- Man Versus The Natural World
- Self-Preservation
- Leadership in Extreme Circumstances
- Role of Race and Class
While the story of the Essextragedy demonstrates the daring, bravery, inventiveness, strength, and intelligence of 19th century whalers, it also quite effectively draws a picture of the Nantucket whaling industry—in its heyday second to none in the world—as an exemplar of the capitalistic greed that would make the United States the dominant world p...
For thousands of years of prehistory the human species was at the mercy of nature, but as humans evolved they became more intelligent and got the upper hand. The Scientific Revolution was the beginning of humanity's use of technology to tame the natural world. Technology has made people's lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. Moreover, Western p...
Philbrick's account of the Essex disaster clearly shows how much people can suffer in the service of preserving their lives and to what extent they will go to do so. This is not to say this is a bad thing. Human beings are genetically programmed to preserve themselves, as are all living creatures. And the advantage a primate like man has is a highl...
Philbrick stresses the importance of leadership as a key theme by adding the backstories of two exemplary leaders: Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain William Bligh. Shackleton was an Anglo-British explorer who performed the amazing rescue of his crew of 27 over a period of almost two years, after his ship was destroyed by ice. Similarly, William Bli...
Not surprisingly, people take their race and class prejudices to sea. First, the Nantucketers consider themselves to be better than everyone else, and therefore they remain clannish after the disaster and assemble the men in the whaleboats to reflect the favoritism of their in-group. Second, the black sailors were the first men to die, following th...
Jul 8, 2023 · Warner Bros. Pictures/YouTube. The months following the Essex attack were harrowing, with the 20 survivors forced to crowd into three lifeboats and sail south. Faced with dwindling provisions and...
- Julia Selinger
Nov 19, 2020 · In the Heart of the Sea tells the story of the Essex, a whaleship from Nantucket--what was one the whaling center of the world--that was rammed and eventually sunk in the South Pacific ocean by a sperm whale in 1820.
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Dec 23, 2015 · It echoes haunting and unheard through In the Heart of the Sea, a whaling adventure — a horror adventure really — about the true events that inspired Melville’s masterpiece.
