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Table of Contents PENGUIN BOOKS Title Page Dedication Copyright Page PREFACE CHAPTER ONE - Nantucket CHAPTER TWO - Knockdown CHAPTER THREE - First Blood CHAPTER FOUR - The Lees of Fire CHAPTER FIVE - The Attack CHAPTER SIX - The Plan CHAPTER SEVEN - At Sea CHAPTER EIGHT - Centering Down CHAPTER NINE - The Island CHAPTER TEN - The Whisper of Necessity CHAPTER ELEVEN - Games of Chance CHAPTER TWELVE - In the Eagle’s Shadow CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Homecoming CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Consequences EPILOGUE NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Acknowledgements INDEX Praise for In the Heart of the Sea “In the Heart of the Sea brings a wrenching tale of death and destruction magnificiently to life In addition to being an incredibly gripping tale of survival, Philbrick’s book is an amazingly intimate and detailed look at life aboard a nineteenth-century whaling ship Much as Melville did in MobyDick, the author takes the reader and makes him part of the crew.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Reading of the disaster in Philbrick’s book, you don’t wonder why Melville was captivated by it: What happened to the Essex and its men is fodder for an adventure story as nerve-wracking as the illfated expeditions that make modern bestsellers like The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air It is suspenseful, heartbreaking and sickening, rife with the kind of human folly and cultural hubris that allow readers to imagine how they would escape such a horrid fate, and make young novelists recklessly philosophical.” —L.A Weekly “[A] fabulously well-told story In the Heart of the Sea turns out to be much more than just a sea story, though it would stand tall on that basis alone And what a story In the Heart of the Sea would have been a page-turner if it had been fiction As a real-life adventure, it’s compelling and chilling from start to finish.” —Wilmington News Journal “Compelling Philbrick does an admirable job of bringing to life not only an engrossing story of endurance, but also of the whaling tradition itself He records the crew’s increasingly dismal prospects for survival in a language worthy of Melville’s best foreboding prose.” —The Houston Chronicle “As both a historical companion to Moby-Dick and perhaps the most thrilling sea tale of all time, In the Heart of the Sea speaks to the same issues of class, race and our relationship to nature that permeate the classic works of Melville.” —Tampa Tribune & Times “If you loved Titanic and gobbled up The Perfect Storm then In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick is just for you It’s a seat-of-your-pants, real life tale These pages rock and roll as good as any contemporary action yarn a grand tale of derring-do, of guts and gumption and of starvation and survival While the tale is tragic, reading about it is a voyage that’s well worth taking.” —New York Post “Both historically thoughtful and highly entertaining he weaves a fascinating discussion of Nantucket’s history into the Essex drama.” —Pittsburgh Gazette “A splendid yarn.” —The Orlando Sentinel “Mesmerizing a story even sweeps week would find hard to top [this] is one book you wouldn’t vote off a deserted island.” —Rocky Mountain News “This is heady stuff, a surefire formula for an engrossing book much more than another disaster story tailored to the interests of prurient readers Accompanied by helpful maps, ample notes, a bibliography and index, it’s a work of masterful scholarship that never intrudes on the high adventure quotient of the narrative.” —Raleigh News & Observer “A superbly written, tension-filled book Whether as a brilliant follow-up to Moby-Dick or as an exciting and harrowing sea story all its own, this is an epic that deserves classic status.” —Parade “Nathaniel Philbrick’s admirable telling of the Essex story gains its power from his adherence to the simple brutal facts all this Philbrick shows with a clarity and an economy that in no way slows his narrative, but lends it an awful, mounting inexorability [told] with verve and authenticity, sure to become again what it has been from its earliest whisperings—a classic tale of the sea.” —San Francisco Chronicle PENGUIN BOOKS IN THE HEART OF THE SEA Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War and Sea of Glory: The Epic South Seas Expedition, 1838-1842, winner of the Theodore and Franklin D Roosevelt Naval History Prize Since 1986 he has lived on Nantucket Island To request Penguin Readers Guides by mail (while supplies last), please call (800) 778-6425 or e-mail reading@us.penguingroup.com To access Penguin Readers Guides online, visit our Web site at www.penguin.com see also hardtack British Navy Brock, Eliza Brock, William Burke, Edmund cannibalism drawing lots for by Essex sailors island inhabitants’ reputation for nutritional value in Cape Horn Cape of Good Hope captains, responsibilities of Carlisle, Henry, xv Central Pacific Chappel, Thomas Charles Carroll Charles Island Chase, Adeline Chase, Charles Fredrick Chase, Eunice Chadwick Chase, Lydia Chase, Nancy Slade Joy Chase, Owen cannibalism of Henderson Island explored by homecoming of on Joy’s death on killer whale attack later career of leadership of marriages and children of navigation and Pollard influenced by psychological reaction of, to shipwreck religious beliefs of on sperm whale attack storms and strategies of whale hunting by written account of Essex disaster by, see Narrative of the Wreck of the Whaleship Essex see also Chase’s whaleboat Chase, Peggy Chase, Phebe Ann Chase, Susan Coffin Gwinn Chase, William Henry Chase’s whaleboat cannibalism on crew of damage to deaths on dehydration and starvation on morale on provisions of rescue of separated from other whaleboats shark attack on storms weathered by in whale hunting see also Essex whaleboats Chile Chili Christian, Fletcher chronometer Church of the Brethren Clarel (Melville) Cloud, Enoch Cochrane, Lord Coffin, Absalom Coffin, Frederick Coffin, Hezekiah, Jr Coffin, Hezekiah, Sr Coffin, Nancy Bunker Coffin, Owen death of Pollard’s relationship with Coffin, Seth Coffin, Tristram Coffin, William Coffin, William, Jr Coffin, Zimri Cole, Isaac death and dismemberment of Colnett, James compass Comstock, Samuel Comstock, William Congregationalists Constellation coofs Crèvecoeur, J Hector St John de Crozier, William Dana, Richard Henry Darwin, Charles Dauphin, xii-xiii dead reckoning Dean, John DeBlois, John dehydration descriptions of drinking after symptoms of Delano, Amasa Desolate Region De Witt, Henry Diana dolphins Donner Party Douglass, Frederick Drake, Edwin drift whales Dromo Ducie Island Eagle Easter Island Eclectic Fourth Reader, The (McGuffey) Elephant Island Elizabeth Emerson, Ralph Waldo “Encantadas, The” (Melville) Equator crew and officers of damage to description of De Witt’s desertion of mail and morale on Nantucket Island and owners of provisions on sperm whale attack on storms weathered by tortoises on in whale hunting written accounts of Essex (frigate) Essex whaleboats cannibalism on damage to desertions from discomforts on drinking water on on Henderson Island morale on navigation of prayer on provisions on separation of storms weathered by strategies on in whale hunting see also Chase’s whaleboat; Hendricks’s whaleboat; Joy’s whaleboat; Pollard’s whaleboat; whaleboats Ewer, Peter Folger exposure to elements finback whale first mates see also Chase, Owen Flatt, David Florida flying fish Folger, Gideon Folger, Mayhew Folger, Peleg Folger, Walter Galapagos Islands Gardner, Eben Gardner, Ferdinand Gardner, George Washington General Jackson George Géricault, Théodore Gideon Folger and Sons Globe Gold Rush (1848) gooseneck barnacles green hands Gulf Stream weather in hardtack harpooning Harrison, David Hawaiian Islands Heffernan, Thomas Henderson Island Hendricks, Obed Hendricks’s whaleboat: cannibalism on crew of deaths on separated from other whaleboats see also Essex whaleboats Hero Hill, Henry History of Nantucket (Macy) Hood Island hunger see also starvation Huron Hussey, Captain Hussey, Shubael hypernatremia hypothermia Independence Indian James, William Japan Ground Jonah Man, The (Carlisle) Joy, Matthew illness and death of Pollard influenced by as second mate in sperm whale attack see also Joy’s whaleboat Joy, Nancy Slade, see Chase, Nancy Slade Joy Joy, Reuben Joy’s whaleboat crew of Hendricks’s taking command of; see also Hendricks’s whaleboat killer whale attack and provisions on separated from other whaleboats in whale hunting see also Essex whaleboats Juan Fernandez Island Keys, Ancel killer whales Langsdorff, Georg von Lawrence, Benjamin cannibalism of homecoming of on Hood Island later career of twine of whaleboat repair and Lawrence, George Lawrence, Judith Coffin Leach, John Letters from an American Farmer (Crèvecoeur) Lewis, Leon, xiv Lion log line longitudinal reckoning Lucy Adams lunar observation Lydia McGarvey, Stephen McGee, W.J McGuffey, William H Macy, Obed Macy, Paul Macy, William H magnesium deficiency Maio man-of-war hawks Marine Insurance Company Marquesas Martha Masafuera Maury, Matthew Fontaine Medusa Melville, Herman Pollard’s encounter with Midas midships oarsman Minnesota, University of Moby-Dick (Melville) Montevideo Morcom, Rich Mott, Lucretia Coffin Nantucket Nantucket Historical Association Nantucket Inquirer Nantucket Island African Americans and clannishness on description of Essex disaster and fire on life on religion on sperm whales and whale hunting and Nantucket Marine Mammal Stranding Team Nantucket Whaling Museum Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (Poe) Narrative of the Wreck of the Whale- ship Essex (Chase) Native Americans see also Wampanoag navigation of Essex whaleboats New American Practical Navigator (Bowditch) New Bedford New Bedford Mercury New England Aquarium Nickerson, Margaret Nickerson, Rebecca Gibson Nickerson, Thomas Nickerson, Thomas, Jr background of cannibalism of on Charles Island Chase and dehydration and starvation of on Essex Henderson Island and homecoming of later career of morale of Pacific storms and Pollard and rescue of in sperm whale attack tortoises and whaleboat experience of whale hunting by written account of Essex disaster by Nordhoff, Charles North American Review Nottingham Galley Nukahivah Oahu Oak Offshore Ground Olmsted, Francis orcas (killer whales) Osborn, Leonard Pacific Ocean Paddack, Aaron Paddock, Ichabod Pearl Pease, John Peggy penguins Peru Peters, Dimon Peterson, Richard bread stolen by death of prayers led by Philbrick, Charles Philbrick, Thomas, xiv Phinney, Joseph Warren Pitcairn Pocahontas Poe, Edgar Allan Pollard, George, Jr appointed captain of Two Brothers cannibalism of Cape Horn and career of, after Two Brothers Chase’s influence on Coffin’s relationship with homecoming of hunting party of leadership of on Maio Melville’s encounter with Nantucket Island leave-taking and navigation errors by physical description of psychology of Russell and in sperm whale attack see also Pollard’s whaleboat Pollard, Mary Riddell Pollard, Mehitable Pollard’s whaleboat cannibalism on crew of damage to deaths on killer whale attack on provisions on rescue of separated from other whaleboats in whale hunting see also Essex whaleboats Polly porpoises Porter, David Pratt, Addison prayer Pusie Hall Quakers business dealings of drawing lots and at worship Raine, Thomas Ramsdell, Charles homecoming of later career of psychology of rescue of Ray, Barzillai death of Ray, Edie Rebecca Simms Reed, Samuel regular reckoning Richardson, John Ridgely, Charles Goodwin right whales Russell, Daniel St Kitts St Mary’s Sanford, Frederick scurvy Second Congregational Church second mates Senegal Shackleton, Ernest sharks Shaw, Justice Lemuel Sheppard, Isaiah shipkeepers Shorter, Charles Slavitz, Jeremy Society Islands South Georgia Island spermaceti sperm whales attack on Essex by behavior of biology of butchering of hunting and killing of mating and family of Nantucket Island and oil from, xi Squibb, Joseph Stackpole, Edouard Starbuck, Alexander Starbuck, Mary Coffin Starbuck, Nathaniel Starbuck, Obed starvation biology of psychology of recovery from symptoms of Stephen’s Bay Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex (Heffernan) studding sail Surry survival psychology Swain, George Syren Taber, John Tahiti Talcahuano Thomas, Lawson death of Ticamus, see Atacames Timor tobacco tortoises eating of on Essex on Essex whaleboats Townsend, Captain “Travail Past, A” (Philbrick) trying-out process Tuamotu Archipelago tub oarsman Two Brothers Two Generals Two Years Before the Mast (Dana) Typees Underwood, Joseph Union Valencia, Pablo Valparaiso Wampanoag War of watches, on ships Waterwitch Weeks, Seth rescue of West, Joseph whaleboats crew on see also Chase’s whaleboat; Essex whaleboats; Hendricks’s whaleboat; Joy’s whaleboat; Pollard’s whaleboat whalemen whales, whale hunting, see killer whales; right whales; sperm whales whaleships equipment on investments in Offshore Grounds and sailing of see also Essex Whitehead, Hal Whittier, John Greenleaf whittling Wilkes, Charles Winslow Worsley, Frank Worth, George Worth, Paul Wright, William ... But the point at which Melville’s novel ends the sinking of the ship—was merely the starting point for the story of the real-life Essex disaster The sinking seemed to mark the beginning of a kind... white Nantucketer at the steering oar Once they’d killed the whale, they towed it back to the beach, where they removed the blubber and boiled it into oil By the beginning of the eighteenth century,... involved more than the exchange of mere gossip They were the setting in which much of the business of the town was transacted The ninteenth-century feminist Lucretia Coffin Mott, who was born