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Owen Chase

Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: the Complete Illustrated Edition

The Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir That Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7603-4812-3
  • EAN: 9780760348123
  • Produktnummer: 16671554
  • Verlag: Motorbooks International
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H28.5 cm x B24.3 cm x D2.3 cm 1'384 g
  • Gewicht: 1384
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Owen Chase was first mate of the whale ship Essex, which was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on November 20, 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. This book, published in 1821, inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick.Gilbert Anthony King is an American writer and photographer who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America (2012). He is also the author of The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South and has written for newspaper such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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