In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex [book club kit]
(Book Club Kit)

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CAMPBELL: Multiple volumes plus looseleaf pages in a canvas bag. Eash kit contains multiple copies of each title as well as author biography and discussion questions.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index.

In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for 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. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three months tested just how far humans could go in their battle against the sea as, one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease and fear. ... This is a timeless account of the human spirit under extreme duress, but it is also a story about a community and about the kind of men and women who lived in a forbidding, remote island like Nantucket. -- Dust jacket.

Accelerated Reader,Grades 9-12,8.8,14,SD,Quiz 45207,English non-fiction.

National Book Award for Non-fiction, 2000