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In the Heart of the Sea: The Incredible True Story that Inspired Moby-Dick by Nathaniel Philbrick
7 reviews
snowdropwhiskey's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Racism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
laurenwash's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail
matcha_cat's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Death, Gore, Grief, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Racism, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Colonisation
rmperash's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Grief, and Cannibalism
jhbandcats's review against another edition
5.0
Philbrick gives a brief history of Nantucket and the whaling business that dominated the island in the late 1700s and early 1800s. He gives background on the family and island ties, people bound together by their being Quakers in a town with a singular focus on building wealth. He shows how outsiders - either mainlanders or non-Quakers - were ostracized. And he shows the compulsion to be better, faster, more successful than friends and neighbors.
All that came to bear in the disastrous voyage of the whaleship Essex, the ship whose destruction by an angry whale inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. The privations of the men were terrible - I think the worst is having to kill one another to survive. I can see how desperate people would be forced to eat anything they could, even if it were other people, but to eat people who have died is very different from drawing lots to determine who's going to be the next meal. How do you live with that?
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
eegah's review against another edition
4.0
Sailing or whaling are topics I never thought I would enjoy reading about, but this book is a great read. It took me a while to get through but this is a solid history book that I would recommend to anyone remotely interested in survival narratives.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, and Cannibalism
bronzemist's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Blood, and Cannibalism