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## Amazon.com Review By sticking to the tried and tested __Longitude__ formula, Philbrick has missed a slight trick or two. The epicenter of the whaling industry was Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod; most of the whales were in the Pacific, necessitating a huge journey around the southernmost tip of South America. We never learn why no one ever tried to create an alternative whaling capital somewhere nearer. Similarly, Philbrick tells us that the story of the __Essex__ was well known to Americans for decades, but he never explores how such legends fade from our consciousness. Philbrick would no doubt reply that such questions were beyond his remit, and you can't exactly accuse him of skimping on his research. By any standard, 50 pages of footnotes impress, though he wears his learning lightly. He doesn't get bogged down in turgid detail, and his narrative rattles along at a nice pace. When the storyline is as good as this, you can't really ask for more. __--John Crace, Amazon.co.uk__ With woody intonation and a suitably somber cadence, Tony Award-winning actor Herrmann reads this chilling tale of the Essex, a whaling ship that was sunk in the middle of the Pacific by an 80-foo

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Author

Nathaniel Philbrick

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143126812

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.16 / 5 (58,791 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14