Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipw...
Chase, Owen
Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South America in 1820. Of the twenty-man crew, only eight survived the horrific ordeal, some men were stranded on an island, all remaining crew were forced to eat food tainted by seawater and drink their own...