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Nathaniel Philbrick - In The Heart Of The Sea
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Audio > Audio books
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216
Size:
286.25 MB

Spoken language(s):
English
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Uploaded:
Jul 20, 2008
By:
deandominic



General Information
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 Title............: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex                            
 Author...........: Nathaniel Philbrick              
 Read By..........: Scott Brick                           
 Publisher........: Books on Tape; Unabridged edition (2000)

Original Media Information
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 Media............: 9 CDs 
 
File Information
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 Number of MP3s...: 213
 Total Duration...: 10 hours 15 minutes
 Total MP3 Size...: 286 MB           
 Ripped by:.......: NMR                                
 Encoder Settings.: CBR 64 kbit/s 41000 Hz Mono          
 ID3 Tags.........: v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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http://www.nathanielphilbrick.com/heartofthesea/index.html

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little--known documents-including a long--lost account written by the ship's cabin boy-and penetrating details about whaling and the Nantucket community to reveal the chilling events surrounding this epic maritime disaster. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

Comments

deandominic, this was a great book, your uploads are eagerly awaited around here :-) thanks!