The Whale Ship Essex: Survival at Sea

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The Curiosity Chronicles

Brett Bylsma

33 episodes

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The Whale Ship Essex: Survival at Sea

The Curiosity Chronicles

1 hour 23 minutes 51 seconds

3 years ago

The Whale Ship Essex: Survival at Sea

What happens when an enraged sperm whale sinks your ship thousands of miles from land? The men of the whaleship Essex found out! Tune into the Curiosity Chronicles to find out to what extreme lengths these men went to survive their 89+ days of starvation and dehydration after a shipwreck, and how their story became the inspiration for one of the Great American Novels!

Sources:

Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. Penguin Books, 2015.

Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. Norton, 2008.