A review by orcamagicka
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

4.5

Watched the movie as a kid when it first came out and tried to read the book, but was much too young to be fully engaged. Read Moby Dick last year and loved it, and figured it was time to read the true story that inspired it all. Now I eagerly want to rewatch the movie haha. I remember telling a friend that Moby Dick would be very hard if not impossible to adapt into a film, since most of the story and it's themes takes place in Ishmael's thoughts as he ruminates about religion, philosophy, history, humanity, and other topics. Yet it turns out the film adaptation of the true story of In The Heart of the Sea is probably the closest you could get to capturing the depth of the fictional story of Moby Dick.