Owen Chase

" La lecture de cette prodigieuse histoire a eu sur moi un effet étonnant. " Herman Melvillle. Le 12 août 1819, l'Essex appareille de l'île de Nantucket avec vingt hommes à bord pour une chasse à la baleine dans... Lire la suite

Aux sources du mythe, les témoignages vécus des hommes qui ont rencontré le véritable Moby Dick, et en sont revenus vivants. Moby Dick , de Herman Melville, est plus qu'un chef-d'oeuvre, c'est un mythe. Depuis... Lire la suite

DON'T MISS THE MAJOR FILM INSPIRED BY CHASE'S NARRATIVE, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA On 20 November 1820, just south of the equator, the whaling ship Essex, spotted and pursued a shoal of sperm whales. As the crew started harpooning, the largest whale –... Lire la suite

On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of thirty had time only to collect some bread and water before pulling away in three frail open... Lire la suite

Owen Chase was first mate of the whaler Essex, which a sperm whale rammed and sank on 20 November 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. This book, published in... Lire la suite

On November 20, 1820, Owen Chase was the First Mate of the Whale-Ship "Essex" when it was struck by an enraged Sperm Whale and sunk, stranding the crew in tiny whale-boats 2000 miles away from land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Of the 21 men... Lire la suite

Le 12 août 1819, l' Essex appareille avec vingt hommes à bord, en vue d'une chasse à la baleine dans le Pacifique. Après plusieurs mois de pêche, le navire, en plein océan, est attaqué par un... Lire la suite

L'Essex est un navire (baleinier) qui a fait naufrage le 20 novembre 1820 au milieu de l'océan Pacifique à la suite d'une attaque par un grand cachalot. Les naufragés dérivèrent pendant dix-huit semaines à bord de trois petites baleinières et se... Lire la suite

El 12 de agosto de 1819 zarpaba del puerto de Nantucket el Essex «rumbo al Océano Pacífico a la pesca de la ballena», con una tripulación de veinte hombres. En mitad de una travesía bastante afortunada, el 20 de noviembre de 1820 el barco fue... Lire la suite

The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex recounts one of the greatest real-life sea adventures of all time. This faithful Warbler Classics edition reproduces First Mate Owen Chase's riveting original 1821 account of the sinking of the Essex by an... Lire la suite

Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is an account by first mate Owen Chase of the Essex, a whale ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, that was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean near South... Lire la suite

On November 20, 1820, Owen Chase was the First Mate of the Whale-Ship "Essex" when it was struck by an enraged Sperm Whale and sunk, stranding the crew in tiny whale-boats 2000 miles away from land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Of the 21 men... Lire la suite

The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm... Lire la suite

Se incluyen en un mismo volumen, por primera vez, los dos textos a partir de los cuales Herman Melville concibió Moby Dick, quizá la más grande de las novelas escritas en lengua inglesa.
Melville admiró profundamente y releyó una y otra vez la... Lire la suite

The "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex, of Nantucket" is a harrowing account penned by Owen Chase, the first mate of the ill-fated whaling ship. The Essex set sail from Nantucket, embarking on a... Lire la suite

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is the history of a whale ship attacked by a sperm whale, and the... Lire la suite