In Chase’s 1821 book Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, the 23-year-old sailor wrote that the starved crew cannibalized the remains of one man ...
all I remember is the movie “In the heart of the sea”, a real-life story based in the early 1800s wherein the whaleship Essex set sail from Nantucket with a 20-man crew on a voyage to hunt ...
Based on the true story of the whaleship Essex (see Moby-Dick/Mastodon’s Leviathan ... reflecting the elegiac darkness of the crew’s travails until Mutiny! supplies a galloping, Yes-propelled ...