Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex (FULL Audiobook)
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex - audiobook
Owen CHASE (1797 - 1869)
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 - March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28, 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. This book, published in 1821, would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Genre(s): Modern (19th C)
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
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This for some strange reason is my favorite book. I grew up next to the ocean where king crab was the catch. I worked on the dock offloading boats. I've had offers to go to sea, but my dad would tell me. If they want to hire someone as inexperienced as you then there's something wrong with the boat and it's going to sink. He was right more times than I can remember.
Lets get a shout out for our man Phil Schempf greatest narrator 10/10
Definitely
OUTSTANDING ! Thanks
I read this last year. Twice. The story is so good i am listening to it again. Herman Melville wrote the forward to this book. I think it's safe to say he was influenced by this account. Great narration. Thank you.
I just finished, "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick and this is a great find!
gonna check that out. Thanks. love good suggestions
This is a truly amazing story and it is no less remarkable as fortunate that so much of the account has now survived for ever.
Excellent story.
Very well read.
Such an excellent story. I loved it!
Try 'A Custom of the Sea' by Henry Carlisle or 'In the Heart of the Sea' (not the absurd recently released film) but the book by Nathaniel Philbrick published in 2000.
@@stnicholas54 ,why do you think the film was unsuccessful?
@@colinmontgomery5492 The film probably was a financial success. Being honest I think more should have been credited in regard to Henry Carlisle's contribution through his 1984 book 'A Custom of the Sea'. Nathaniel Philbrick's book 'In the Heart of the Sea' is, in large part, IMO, a book about a book ie Henry Carlisle's 1984 book. As to the film, I probably should have used more temperate language on my original comment..
@@stnicholas54 , I believe the film was a commercial and critical failure; it didn't make its money back. I too was disappointed in the movie, but on a second viewing I liked it much more. There are embellishments, but it is largely true to the Essex story.
@@stnicholas54 , are you not a Philbrick fan?
IMO the language of those days is amazing, today English has become far simpler.
It is not so different from today. Could you understand what he was saying?
He is talking about the wording they used an how they spoke it is very different from how we speak today
Right Stu,they sounded like poets back then and their vocabulary was incredible
Listen to "capt william kid and others of the buccaneers ",it is a masterpiece .
Me still talk pretty
Well done
This narrator also did nesmuk and I refuse to believe that this isn't his voice
I couldn’t imagine going through what those men did .
So well written. Thanks.
Whales were just protecting their pod. Killed for lamp oil. A few ships were sunk. A great story. Fishing for Whales was taken your life in hand
Let's visit Nantucket. Or, let's just locally rent a row boat! Feel the water.
Great story hard to find good audio books just watched most recent adaptation of Moby Dick, movie leaned more closely towards this book thanks for upload
I read this book. Herman Melville wrote the forward. There is no doubt he was mightily influenced by Owen Chase's story
I loved this
I wonder -they had a lot of whale oil onboard of Essex, oil is edible and very caloric, fat is excellent source of energy. Why they didn't take few barrels of oil as emergency rations?
Good question or put the pistol to those sharks or dolphins.theyre edible
Or stopped by a Long John Silvers🤷
I think all the oil was in the hold--the bottom of the ship--and they couldn't get to it.
Crazy the danger of the sea.
Even other sea animals attack.
Thank u ❤
Great book
Whalers couldn’t fish from their boats? Or the island??
I hear u,I would've stayed on the island and made a fishing net out of the sails or shot me a shark .
@@jerrymarshall2095 No. neither of you would have lol. You might of tried, but the effort would have absolutely been wasted. Unless your expertise on sustaining life from hunting the ocean is greater than that of the literal 1800’s veteran Nantucket salt sailors, who hunted the ocean for YEARS at a time for a living. I’m sure they thought of “let’s just catch a fish lol”. Also the ballistics of a gun are made null by literally inches of water, so good luck with that one too.
@@Kuzo73 necessity is the mother of invention,and sharks often patrol shallow water,I grew up in the keys so I know this as a fact.
Nice.
Brutal
A tragedy, a real tragedy
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Anyone here after reading Moby Dick?
Watch your mouth
After the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. If you haven't read them, you should.
In The Heart of the Sea is one of my favourite books, and I love that this true story inspired Moby Dick :D In The Heart of the Sea is the same true story but much more expanded and told from all the perspectives with a lot more historical context and explanation too - it’s so good!!
Serves them right.
When I was young we rode around in cars as children without seatbelts. Nobody weighed the morality of it . I wonder what you’re doing today that will be considered appalling in 25 years ?
@@spicyroads driving an EV
God people are so dumb. Without those whaling ships and other "unethical" activities back in the 1800s(not talking about slavery) you probably wouldn't have the iPad or iPhone you typed that comment on. People with easy lives built on the backs of hard ones and have 0 perspective.
soy boy
Don't cry emo boy😂😂😂
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