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Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
2002, 2001.
Language
English
Description
The sinking of the American whaleship the Essex by a sperm whale in the mid-Pacific on November 20, 1820 and the startling reality of the epic struggle for the crew to survive. Inspiring the writing of Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
They were the whalers of the nineteenth century, leaving home for months, nay years at a time, in search of the largest creatures of the earth. It was their job to hunt these mammoth sea dwellers for their oil and feed the trade in hopes of raising enough coin to feed their families back in port. They are the hunters of the dark sea, in search of the deadly behemoth that is their stock and trade. It is a life and death profession where even the greenest...
