Nathaniel Philbrick

Automne 1620. Les cent deux passagers du Mayflower débarquent sur les côtes américaines. Affamés, craintifs, mais forts de leur foi, ils entrent en contact avec les tribus indiennes, elles-mêmes frag

En 1820, el ballenero Essex fue destrozado por un enorme cachalote. Los supervivientes se salvaron en tres frágiles botes, dando inicio así a una odisea en la que vivieron terribles acontecimientos... Un relato tan espeluznante como veridico.

The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick''s new paperback, Sea of Glory.The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in the Pacific in November 1820 set in motion one of the most dramatic sea stories of all time: the twenty sailors who survived the wreck took to three small boats (one of which was again attacked by a whale) and only eight of them survived their subsequent 90-day ordeal, after resorting to cannibalising their mates.Three months after the Essex was broken up, the whaleship Dauphin, cruising off the coast of South America, spotted a small boat in the open ocean. As they pulled alongside they saw piles of bones in the bottom of the boat, at least two skeletons'' worth, with two survivors - almost skeletons themselves - sucking the marrow from the bones of their dead ship-mates.

La épica aventura que inspiró Moby Dick, hoy se transforma en la mayor producción cinematográfica de Antena 3. En 1819, el barco Essex zarpó del puerto de Nantucket, en la costa este de Estados Unid

La història real en què es va basar Melville per escriure la grandiosa Moby Dick. Un relat èpic de la lluita de l''home per la supervivència.L''agost de 1819, el balener Essex i la seva tripulació de