‘Look, look, what ails the ship, she is upsetting’
Peter Nichols: The ship ‘Essex’, 8 March 2001
The Loss of the Ship ‘Essex’, Sunk by a Whale
by Thomas Nickerson and Owen Chase, edited by Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick et al.
Penguin, 231 pp., £7.99, June 2000,0 14 043796 7 Show More
by Thomas Nickerson and Owen Chase, edited by Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick et al.
Penguin, 231 pp., £7.99, June 2000,
“... Sunk by a Whale is a collection of first and second-hand accounts, edited by Nathaniel Philbrick, with his father Thomas. Owen Chase’s narrative (which Philbrick and others before him, including Melville, have presumed was ghost-written) has long been the main source of the ... ”
