| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
99053740 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0670891576 (alk. paper) |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| International Standard Serial Number |
9780670891573 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
910.9164 Phi |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
910.9164 Phi |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Philbrick, Nat |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
In the Heart of the Sea : |
| Remainder of title |
the tragedy of the whaleship Essex |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by Nathaniel Philbrick |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Viking Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2000. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 302 p., [16] p. of plates : |
| Other physical details |
ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
includes index |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Title |
Preface: February 23, 1821 -- Nantucket -- Knockdown -- First blood -- The lees of fire -- The attack -- The plan -- At sea -- Centering down -- The island -- The whisper of necessity -- Games of chance -- In the eagle's shadow -- Homecoming -- Consequences -- Epilogue: Bones. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three months tested just how far humans could go in their battle against the sea as, one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease and fear. ... This is a timeless account of the human spirit under extreme duress, but it is also a story about a community and about the kind of men and women who lived in a forbidding, remote island like Nantucket. -- Dust jacket. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Information code or alphabet |
76895 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Shipwrecks |
| Geographic subdivision |
Pacific Ocean |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Essex (Whaleship) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Essex |
| General subdivision |
Whaleship |
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nonfiction history |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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