| ID: | 18654 |
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| Entry Text: | Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. New York: Viking; New York: HarperCollins, 2000, 2001, 302 pp. Nantucket whaleship attacked & sunk by whale in Pacific in 1820; influenced Melville. |