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Revenge of the Whale Pdf Summary

Adapted from In the Heart of the Sea, soon to be a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Wishaw, and Brendan Gleeson, and directed by Ron Howard.

On November 20, 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. Within minutes, the twenty-one-man crew, including the fourteen-year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, found themselves stranded in three leaky boats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with barely any supplies and little hope. Three months later, two of the boats were rescued 4,500 miles away, off the coast of South America. Of the twenty-one castaways, only eight survived, including young Thomas. Based on his New York Times best-seller In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick recreates the amazing events of the ill-fated Essex through the sailors own first-hand accounts, photos, maps, and artwork, and tells the tale of one of the great true-life adventure stories.

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TheCoasties

5.0 out of 5 stars A great story for making men out of boys!
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2015

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After reading In The Heart Of The Sea (same author), I knew I had to read this to my boys. They are 12 and 15, homeschooled, and they loved it. Both agreed that it is not an uplifting story. However they agreed that it is an amazing story of survival, faith, discipline, courage, resourcefulness and loyalty.

In the culture of the United States today, I see very few young men that serve as an example of what I want my sons to become. Books like these give us the examples of what it means to be a man’s man! They also have a dad who is a great example – another novelty in our culture for which we are thankful!

Jayebee

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2013

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I bought this book to read to my grandkids. It is a great story about an angry whale that attacked, and sank a whale-hunting ship and the crew, stranded in the middle of the ocean in three leaky lifeboats. Some survived, including a 14-year old cabin boy, Thomas Nickerson. It’s a great story of survival. I would recommend this book to 10-years old and up.

About Nathaniel Philbrick Author Of Revenge of the Whale pdf Book

Philbrick was Brown’s Author Of Revenge of the Whale pdf Book, His first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978; that year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, RI; today he and his wife Melissa sail their Beetle Cat Clio and their Tiffany Jane 34 Marie-J in the waters surrounding Nantucket Island.

After grad school, Philbrick worked for four years at Sailing World magazine; was a freelancer for a number of years, during which time he wrote/edited several sailing books, including Yaahting: A Parody (1984), for which he was the editor-in-chief; during this time he was also the primary caregiver for his two children. After moving to Nantucket in 1986, he became interested in the history of the island and wrote Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People. He was offered the opportunity to start the Egan Maritime Institute in 1995, and in 2000 he published In the Heart of the Sea, followed by Sea of Glory, in 2003, and Mayflower. He is presently at work on a book about the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Mayflower was a finalist for both the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in History and the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction. In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award for nonfiction; Revenge of the Whale won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Sea of Glory won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize and the Albion-Monroe Award from the National Maritime Historical Society. Philbrick has also received the Byrne Waterman Award from the Kendall Whaling Museum, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for distinguished service from the USS Constitution Museum, the Nathaniel Bowditch Award from the American Merchant Marine Museum, the William Bradford Award from the Pilgrim Society, the Boston History Award from the Bostonian Society, and the New England Book Award from the New England Independent Booksellers Association.