Thomas Nickerson
Books
- Struck by a Whale The Essex Disaster and the True Story Behind Moby-Dick · Liszt Think
On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale rammed and sank the Nantucket whaleship Essex in the remote Pacific. Twenty men took to three open whaleboats, choosing a perilous eastward course over feared cannibal islands.
- The Endless Green Meadow…h the same precision as her dimensions: George Pollard, master; Owen Chase, first mate; Matthew Joy, second; and seventeen others including Thomas Nickerson, a fourteen-year-old cabin boy from Harwich whose mother had been born on the island. Nickerson had lost both parents before his second bir…
- A Vessel Fitted for the Sea…because he wrote with the particular urgency of a man who had seen his expected future collapse into something unmanageable. The cabin boy, Thomas Nickerson, was fourteen years old. Born in Harwich, Massachusetts, he had lost both parents before his second birthday. His mother was from Nantucket…
- The Chase…pots sat cold and black, filmed with residue from boils months past. The cooper had checked his casks and found them tight, empty, waiting. Thomas Nickerson, the fourteen-year-old cabin boy, moved about his duties—coiling lines, fetching coffee for the officers—performing the routines that had b…