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Author
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Description
"In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routing voyages to hunt whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: In the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, the twenty-man crew set out in three boats for South America, almost 3,000 miles away. Three months later, only eight were left alive, the survivors having been forced...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish dialogue version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Young Readers edition.
Lexile measure
NC 1200L
Physical Desc
164 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds" --
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color w/ black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The history of the American whaling industry, from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.