Sökresultat för: Thomas Philbrick
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Häftad)
avRichard Henry, Jr. Dana, Thomas Philbrick
ISBN: 9780140390087 - UTGIVEN: 198112General Fiction Large Print Edition After a bout with measles, Richard Henry Dana decided to break the tedium of his convalescence with a sea voyage not as a passenger, but as a sailor. On August 14, 1834, the Pilgrim set off from Boston bound for the coast of California. Here is the result a book[...]
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale (Pocket)
avThomas (EDT) Nickerson, Chase Nickerson, Nathaniel (EDT) Philbrick
ISBN: 9780140437966 - UTGIVEN: 2000-05The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film, In the Heart of the Sea. In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was sailing in the South Pacific when it was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The ship sank, leaving twenty c[...]
