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The loss of the "Essex" : sunk by a whale in mid-ocean / by Edouard A. Stackpole
Record no:
20977
Call no:
930.102804 STA
Author:
Stackpole, Edouard A.
Publisher:
Falmouth, Mass.: Kendall Printing
Year:
1977
Description:
36 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Essex (Ship)
;
Whaling ships
;
Shipwrecks - Pacific Ocean
;
Survival after aeroplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
;
Cannibalism
;
Notes:
"The true story of the destruction of a whaleship by a bull whale in mid-Pacific, and the sufferings of the survivors during a ninety-day voyage in open boats, with a last resort to cannibalism to survive."
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