An anthology of American maritime writing captures the beauty, danger, and mythology of America's seagoing experience, from the legend of the Flying Dutchman to John McPhee's writings on the vulnerability of ships in the modern era. (view table of contents)

This local best-seller focused on the real people-great and obscure, famous and infamous-behind the Island at the center of a whaling empire.

Product Description: El 20 de noviembre de 1820, el barco ballenero Essex es atacado por un cachalote mientras navega por el Pacifico. La tripulacion se refugia en botes salvavidas. Es entonces cuando empieza la tragedia: con una cantidad limitada de viveres y agua, veinte hombres pondran a prueba su coraje en una lucha despiadada por la vida en medio del oceano...read more

Product Description: In 1820, the whaleship Essex was attacked by an enraged sperm whale and sank, far out in the Pacific. The event set in train one of the most dramatic sea stories of all time and inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. Now, following the discovery of an hitherto unknown account by one of the survivors, the last voyage of the Essex comes to life again...read more

The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of the most dramatic sea stories of all time: the twenty sailors who survived the wreck took to three small boats and only eight of them survived their subsequent 90-day ordeal. This work presents this story of maritime disaster.

Recounts the story of the 1820 wreck of the whaleship Essex, which inspired Melville's classic 'Moby-Dick,' and describes its doomed crew's ninety-day attempt to survive whale attacks and the elements on three tiny lifeboats

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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native Americans as disease spread by European fishermen devastated their populations. Initially the two groups—the Wampanoags, under the charismatic and calculating chief Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, whose pugnacious military officer Miles Standish was barely five feet tall—maintained a fragile working relationship. But within decades, New England would erupt into King Philip's War, a savagely bloody conflict that nearly wiped out English colonists and natives alike and forever altered the face of the fledgling colonies and the country that would grow from them.With towering figures like William Bradford and the distinctly American hero Benjamin Church at the center of his narrative, Philbrick has fashioned a fresh and compelling portrait of the dawn of American history—a history dominated right from the start by issues of race, violence, and religion.From the Hardcover edition.

The startling story of the Plymouth Colony, from the flight to religious freedom to the war that ravaged New England, from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea. Unabridged CDs - 14 CDs, 11 hours

Product Description: Adapted from the New York Times bestseller Mayflower! After a dangerous journey across the Atlantic, the Mayflower?s passengers were saved from certain destruction with the help of the Natives of the Plymouth region. For fifty years a fragile peace was maintained as Pilgrims and Native Americans learned to work together...read more

A compilation of original primary source material features key personal reminiscences and eyewitness accounts that describe the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century New England, with such selections as William Bradford's 'Of Plymouth Plantation,' Benjamin Church's 'Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip's War,' and others. Original.

Recounts the 1820 sinking of the whaleship 'Essex' by an enraged sperm whale and how the crew of young men survived against impossible odds.

A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.

An evocative collection of stunning photographs, complemented by quotes from residents of Nantucket, captures the mystic and multifaceted beauty of the island during its quiet fall and winter months, a world that tourists seldom see. 12,500 first printing.