Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex

The first documented sinking of a ship by a whale and a harrowing account by the ship's first mate of the survivors' three months adrift in small boats. A thrilling narrative that inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick.

• Author
• Thomas Farel Heffernan

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• Wesleyan University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780819562449

• Genres
• history

• Release date
• 1990