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  • The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Owen Chase, George Pollard Jr., Thomas Chappel ...
    The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex recounts one of the greatest real-life sea adventures of all time. This faithful Warbler Classics edition reproduces First Mate Owen Chase's riveting original 1821 account of the sinking of the Essex by an enormous whale and the fates that befell her twenty-man crew. Those who survived endured months of stormy seas in small boats, insufferable heat, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex

    by Owen Chase ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    On November 20, 1820, Owen Chase was the First Mate of the Whale-Ship "Essex" when it was struck by an enraged Sperm Whale and sunk, stranding the crew in tiny whale-boats 2000 miles away from land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.Of the 21 men who entered the 3 flimsy whale-boats, only 8 ultimately survived to be rescued. A harrowing journey lasting 90 days awaited these crewmen, involving ... Read more

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  • The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale

    First-Person Accounts

    by Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson ...
    The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the SeaIn 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. ... Read more

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  • The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym (Mobi Classics)

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel, published in 1838.The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym including shipwreck, mutiny and cannibalism. The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Direct, powerful, and unforgettable, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most important autobiographies ever written. In his own words, Douglass recounts his experiences as an enslaved person and his courageous escape to freedom, exposing the cruelty and injustice of slavery with undeniable truth. The book played a vital role in the abolitionist movement and remains deeply ... Read more

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  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark side of life at sea: mutiny, cannibalism, savagery—even death. As Jeffrey Meyers writes in his Introduction: “[Poe] remains contemporary because ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Omoo

    A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

    by Herman Melville ...
    Melville’s continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville’s personal experiences as a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Trip to Newfoundland 1855, Illustrated

    by A Guernsey ...
    This short piece describes a trip to Newfoundland to lay pieces of the transatlantic cable during the mid nineteenth century. Digitally Restored illustrations. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact'. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Captain's Wife

    by Abby Jane Morrell ...
    "Gives the reader a woman's perspective on life at sea aboard a schooner when conditions under sail were uncomfortable and, at times, dangerous." — The Northern MarinerDuring the nineteenth century it became increasingly common for merchant service masters to take their wives to sea, particularly in the whaling industry, where voyages of 2–3 years were not uncommon. Reflecting the sailors ... Read more

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  • "The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African"

    by OLAUDAH EQUIANO ...
    "The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African" by OLAUDAH EQUIANO. ... Read more

    $0.71 USD

  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    After reading an 1836 newspaper account of a shipwreck and its two survivors, Edgar Allan Poe penned his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, the story of a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship who finds himself enmeshed in the dark side of life at sea: mutiny, cannibalism, savagery—even death. As Jeffrey Meyers writes in his Introduction: “[Poe] remains contemporary because ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks