In the Heart of the Sea

Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea

Logos & Lore — June 2026.

Framing

“The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale.”¹

Footnotes

1. Nathaniel Philbrick, official author site. https://www.nathanielphilbrick.com/in-the-heart-of-the-sea ↩