Albion Book Club: "In the Heart of the Sea"

Join the Albion Book Club to discuss "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" by Nathaniel Philbrick. Meet in person here at the Albion Library, or contact us for a Zoom link.

"In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, the survivors clung to life...

"In the Heart of the Sea tells perhaps the greatest sea story ever. Philbrick interweaves his account of this extraordinary ordeal of ordinary men with a wealth of whale lore and with a brilliantly detailed portrait of the lost, unique community of Nantucket whalers... At once a literary companion and a page-turner that speaks to the same issues of class, race, and man's relationship to nature that permeate the works of Melville, In the Heart of the Sea will endure as a vital work of American history."

You may also like the following events from Albion Branch Library:

• This month, 29th September, 07:00 pm, Albion Camera Club in Albion
• Next month, 20th October, 07:00 pm, Albion Book Club: "Legends & Lattes" in Albion

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