The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale
10 best books like The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale (Thomas Nickerson): Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon, The Ocean World, My People the Sioux, Shackleton, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery, The Bridge at Chappaquiddick, The Great Hurricane: 1938, Shackleton's Boat Journey
| Author | Eric Jay Dolin |
| ISBN | 0393060578 |
Leviathan selected as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Providence Journal. Leviathan was also chosen by Amazon.com's editors as one of the 10 best history books of 2007.
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," proclaimed...
| Author | Joan Druett |
| ISBN | 1565124359 |
After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical murder mystery" (USA Today). On May 25, 1841, the Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling ground of the northwestern Pacific. A year later,...
| Author | Jacques-Yves Cousteau |
| ISBN | 0810980681 |
The late undersea explorer sets out the fascinating story of the oceans in fact, lore, and legend. An eyepopping, beautifully designed volume, brimming over with glorious full-color photographs of the ocean's bounty and its most secret underwater habitats, this book includes 18 lively chapters...
| Author | Luther Standing Bear |
| ISBN | 0803293321 |
When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever had.” It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among the first books about Indians written from...
| Author | Roland Huntford |
| ISBN | 0786705442 |
An amazing book on the amazing life of one of the great polar explorers. It appears that his fame has become more to the forefront in the past few years since one usually heard about Byrd and Scott but not Shackleton.
Polar exploration is often surrounded by more myth than fact and the author rights...
THE DEFINITIVE AND SPELLBINDING RECORD OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, IMMORTALIZED ON FILM BY PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK HURLEY Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917 was one of the great feats of human endurance -- one vividly captured in the powerful...
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
| Author | Anne Farrow |
| ISBN | 0345467833 |
Slavery in the South has been documented in volumes ranging from exhaustive histories to bestselling novels. But the North’s profit from–indeed, dependence on–slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now.
In this startling and superbly researched new book,...
The classic by master nonfiction author Jack Olsen. First time in ebook.
And on its surface, the Chappaquiddick Incident (as it has infamously become known) was a simple but tragic traffic accident. However, its political fallout caused it to become the most speculated-upon car accident...
The Great Hurricane: 1938
On the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color in the sky, it was too late to escape. In an age before warning systems and the ubiquity of television, this...
| Author | Frank A. Worsley |
| ISBN | 1841580635 |
This is an account of the Shackleton boat journey. The journey began in August 1914 in London and the next the world knew of Shackleton was in May 1916, when three ragged men staggered into the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia. On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton...
| Author | Jeffrey Meyers |
| ISBN | 0306808900 |
Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom...
| Author | John Rousmaniere |
| ISBN | 0393308650 |
It began in fine weather, then suddenly became a terrifying ordeal. A Force 10, sixty-knot storm swept across the North Atlantic with a speed that confounded forecasters, slamming into the fleet with epic fury. For twenty hours, 2,500 men and women were smashed by forty-foot breaking waves, while...
| Author | Henry F. Graff |
| ISBN | 0805069232 |
A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college...
From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family's summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportages were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great writings...
| Author | Sean Wilentz |
| ISBN | 0805069259 |
The towering figure who remade American politics—the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege
The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they were distrustful of the common people, having designed a constitutional system that would...
| Author | Samuel Eliot Morison |
| ISBN | 0316584789 |
Columbus: the vile, despicable villain, who brought torture, tragedy, and terror to the American continents--a founding father of white male arrogance and bigotry.
That is the most common depiction of the 15th century Genoese explorer that I come across from colleagues, media, and academics...
| Author | Charles Olson |
| ISBN | 0801857317 |
First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences—especially Shakespearean ones—on Melville's writing of Moby-Dick. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks," Olson argues...
| Author | Jack London |
| ISBN | 0809501465 |
Of course I knew Jack London wrote about the North.
And I also knew he had written about the South Seas, and at least one hilarious play, a journal of his own ocean voyage with his wife, a science fiction novella, and many social commentaries disguised as entertaining stories.
But when...
| Author | Robert John Donovan |
| ISBN | 0071408681 |
First published in 1961, this 40th Anniversary edition comes with a Foreword by Daniel Schorr, a Preface from author Robert J Donovan and Afterword on PT boat history by Duane Hove.
I picked this up in a book auction held at a seminar of Dealey Plaza U.K. My knowledge of Kennedy's WWII exploits come...
| Author | James D. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0807842214 |
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance...
| Author | Stephen Taylor |
| ISBN | 0393050858 |
What became of the castaways was stranger than fiction...and more than decent Englishmen could bear. In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn that one of their finest ships, the 741-ton Grosvenor, had been lost on the wild and unexplored coast of southeast...
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & the Wilderness Hunter
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| ISBN | 0375751521 |
Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid portraits of the land as well as the people and animals that inhabited it, underscoring Roosevelt's abiding...
Wreck of the Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft
| Author | Alexander McKee |
| ISBN | 0451200446 |
Originally published in 1974, this is a harrowing account of the grounding of the frigate Medusa off the coast of Africa and the abandonment of the ship by its 400 passengers and crew in seven boats and a poorly-built raft. McKee tells the story in a straightforward way, and he deftly moves the reader from...
| Author | Colin Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0375703233 |
For the first time since 1984, we have a new edition of the classic book that Field & Stream called "the Hiker's Bible." For this version, the celebrated writer and hiker Colin Fletcher has taken on a coauthor, Chip Rawlins, himself an avid outdoorsman and a poet from Wyoming. Together, they have...
| Author | Gregory Gibson |
| ISBN | 0316738670 |
The mutiny of the whale-ship Globe in the South Pacific in 1825 was one of the goriest incidents in American maritime history and has achieved legendary status in seafaring lore. At the centre of the mutiny was a young man raised in a staunch Nantucket Quaker family, Samuel Comstock, one of the most bizarre...
