In November 1820 the Nantucket whaler Essex was rammed and sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific. Her first mate, Owen Chase, tells how twenty men set out in three open boats thousands of miles from land, and how hunger and thirst drove the survivors to desperate measures during ninety-three days at sea.
The harrowing eyewitness narrative that Herman Melville drew on for Moby-Dick. Download the free EPUB.