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Wednesday Evening Book Club In-Person
In the Heart of Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathanial Philbrick. Nonfiction. 302 pages
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.