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Se incluyen en un mismo volumen, por primera vez, los dos textos a partir de los cuales Herman Melville concibió Moby Dick, quizá la más grande de las novelas escritas en lengua inglesa.
Melville admiró profundamente y releyó una y otra vez la Narración del naufragio del Essex, de Owen Chase, primer oficial del barco, hundido por el ataque de un cachalote, cuyos náufragos vivieron una odisea asombrosa, narrada magistralmente por uno de los...
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“The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex” recounts one of the greatest real-life sea adventures of all time. This faithful Warbler Classics edition reproduces First Mate Owen Chase's riveting original 1821 account of the sinking of the Essex by an enormous whale and the fates that befell her twenty-man crew. Those who survived endured months of stormy seas in small boats, insufferable heat, hopelessness, hunger, and thirst. The gruesome, harrowing...
3) The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The True Narrative that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
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The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex is the harrowing narrative of an unfortunate vessel's calamitous encounter with a great white whale, and the crew's perilous fight for survival on the open sea. This Explorer's Club edition faithfully reproduces Owen Chase's original 1821 narrative, in which he chronicles the great whale's attack on the ship, the Essex's subsequent sinking, and the more than exhausting months at sea that followed, in which the...
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