Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex

The first documented sinking of a ship by a whale and a harrowing account by the ship’s first mate of the survivors’ three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that inspired Herman Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick.

• The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts (Penguin Classics)
• Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Complete Illustrated Edition: The Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir That Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
• Whale Ships and Whaling: A Pictorial History (Dover Maritime)
• The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex