Valparaíso
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 Sickness in the Salt…n the mind, released from the immediate struggle for survival, turned to inventory what it had done to survive? The Dauphin was sailing for Valparaíso, the Chilean port where Nantucket whaleships reprovisioned and where American consuls could arrange passage home. The voyage would take two…
- The First Vessel to Valparaíso…en days after the captain and his cousin were found sucking marrow from the bones of their dead shipmates—a second whaleship made harbor at Valparaíso with three more survivors from the wreck of the Essex. The Indian, Thomas Raine master, had sailed from London in 1820 and was cruising the…
- The Captain’s Report to the ConsulSeen from above, the eight survivors of the Essex now occupy two different worlds. In a Valparaíso hospital, Owen Chase lies on a cot with his jaw bound in linen, unable to close his mouth fully, the bone having knitted badly after months…