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In The Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex—an event as mythic in its own time as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In this harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick tells the epic tale of the Essex crewmembers’ fight for survival.