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Wrath of the Leviathan: The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex and the Gruesome True Story Behind Moby-Dick

By Nathaniel Cross
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By Nathaniel Cross
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When Herman Melville published Moby-Dick, readers were thrilled by the terrifying concept of a vengeful, giant sperm whale attacking a ship. Few realized that the climax of the novel was not fiction, but a horrific historical reality. In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed and shattered by an impossibly large, enraged sperm whale, leaving twenty men stranded in tiny lifeboats thousands of miles from land.

What followed the sinking was a nightmare of survival that shocked the 19th-...