I used to know very little about the Nantucket whaling industry. As far as I was concerned, the intrepid crews sailed offshore, filled their holds in a week or so, and soon returned home to their adoring families. Not so, it seems. Far more typical, at least in the early nineteenth century, was the voyage [...]
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In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick
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