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MARC recordStove by a whale: Owen Chase and the Essex / Thomas Farrel Heffernan.
| Title: | Stove by a whale: Owen Chase and the Essex / Thomas Farrel Heffernan. |
| Author(s): | Heffernan, Thomas Farrel. |
| Date: | 1981. |
| Publisher: | Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press |
| Abstract: | Account of first documented sinking of ship after being rammed by whale. Nantucket whaler Essex sank in central Pacific. Author tells of privations of survivors and influence of Chase's narrative of Essex shipwreck on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. |
| Keywords: | 639.245.1 -- Whaling industry: American. 629.12 -- Vessels: Essex. 82-3 -- Prose. Fiction: Melville, H. V -- History. (265) -- Pacific Ocean. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 639.245.1[USA] |
| ISBN: | 0819550523 |
| SPRI record no.: | 63398 |
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