Books
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Demon of the waters | Gregory Gibson | Documents the mutiny aboard the whaler Globe, which was organized by twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, his plan to build an island kingdom, and the rescue voyage of the Navy schooner Dolphin. | OL15859431W |
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In the Heart of the Sea | Nathaniel Philbrick | In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. | OL800722W |