Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex (FULL Audiobook)

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  • Опубликовано: 7 янв 2016
  • Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex - audiobook
    Owen CHASE (1797 - 1869)
    Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 - March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28, 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex. This book, published in 1821, would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick. (Summary from Wikipedia)
    Genre(s): Modern (19th C)
    Language: English (FULL Audiobook)

Комментарии • 56

  • @dapper_gent
    @dapper_gent Год назад +4

    This for some strange reason is my favorite book. I grew up next to the ocean where king crab was the catch. I worked on the dock offloading boats. I've had offers to go to sea, but my dad would tell me. If they want to hire someone as inexperienced as you then there's something wrong with the boat and it's going to sink. He was right more times than I can remember.

  • @jagermcbigmac7872
    @jagermcbigmac7872 4 года назад +22

    Lets get a shout out for our man Phil Schempf greatest narrator 10/10

  • @pawlah1
    @pawlah1 2 года назад +5

    I just finished, "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick and this is a great find!

    • @dukecity7688
      @dukecity7688 Год назад +1

      gonna check that out. Thanks. love good suggestions

  • @dukecity7688
    @dukecity7688 Год назад +1

    I read this last year. Twice. The story is so good i am listening to it again. Herman Melville wrote the forward to this book. I think it's safe to say he was influenced by this account. Great narration. Thank you.

  • @FishOnIsMyHandle
    @FishOnIsMyHandle 8 лет назад +8

    OUTSTANDING ! Thanks

  • @myheadhurts1927
    @myheadhurts1927 2 года назад +2

    Excellent story.
    Very well read.

  • @vickibug
    @vickibug 8 лет назад +8

    Such an excellent story. I loved it!

    • @stnicholas54
      @stnicholas54 7 лет назад +5

      Try 'A Custom of the Sea' by Henry Carlisle or 'In the Heart of the Sea' (not the absurd recently released film) but the book by Nathaniel Philbrick published in 2000.

    • @colinmontgomery5492
      @colinmontgomery5492 5 лет назад +1

      @@stnicholas54 ,why do you think the film was unsuccessful?

    • @stnicholas54
      @stnicholas54 5 лет назад +1

      @@colinmontgomery5492 The film probably was a financial success. Being honest I think more should have been credited in regard to Henry Carlisle's contribution through his 1984 book 'A Custom of the Sea'. Nathaniel Philbrick's book 'In the Heart of the Sea' is, in large part, IMO, a book about a book ie Henry Carlisle's 1984 book. As to the film, I probably should have used more temperate language on my original comment..

    • @colinmontgomery5492
      @colinmontgomery5492 5 лет назад

      @@stnicholas54 , I believe the film was a commercial and critical failure; it didn't make its money back. I too was disappointed in the movie, but on a second viewing I liked it much more. There are embellishments, but it is largely true to the Essex story.

    • @colinmontgomery5492
      @colinmontgomery5492 5 лет назад

      @@stnicholas54 , are you not a Philbrick fan?

  • @channelbree
    @channelbree 5 лет назад +13

    IMO the language of those days is amazing, today English has become far simpler.

    • @colinmontgomery5492
      @colinmontgomery5492 5 лет назад +3

      It is not so different from today. Could you understand what he was saying?

    • @jacobbutler6049
      @jacobbutler6049 4 года назад +2

      He is talking about the wording they used an how they spoke it is very different from how we speak today

    • @jerrymarshall2095
      @jerrymarshall2095 2 года назад +1

      Right Stu,they sounded like poets back then and their vocabulary was incredible

    • @jerrymarshall2095
      @jerrymarshall2095 2 года назад +2

      Listen to "capt william kid and others of the buccaneers ",it is a masterpiece .

    • @festina_lente7655
      @festina_lente7655 6 месяцев назад

      Me still talk pretty

  • @seekandfind5005
    @seekandfind5005 2 года назад +3

    Let's visit Nantucket. Or, let's just locally rent a row boat! Feel the water.

  • @melgibson178
    @melgibson178 4 года назад +3

    Well done

  • @frankcastle9991
    @frankcastle9991 Год назад +1

    I couldn’t imagine going through what those men did .

  • @kccoyote3562
    @kccoyote3562 2 года назад

    So well written. Thanks.

    • @anthonyevans9169
      @anthonyevans9169 Год назад

      Whales were just protecting their pod. Killed for lamp oil. A few ships were sunk. A great story. Fishing for Whales was taken your life in hand

  • @offthecouch1999
    @offthecouch1999 Год назад +1

    This narrator also did nesmuk and I refuse to believe that this isn't his voice

  • @aaronjones3613
    @aaronjones3613 2 года назад

    Great book

  • @user-ln3kh3ku4u
    @user-ln3kh3ku4u 2 месяца назад

    Thank u ❤

  • @tylus8994
    @tylus8994 Год назад

    I loved this

  • @jimgritty7064
    @jimgritty7064 4 года назад

    Nice.

  • @tonygary7611
    @tonygary7611 2 года назад

    Great story hard to find good audio books just watched most recent adaptation of Moby Dick, movie leaned more closely towards this book thanks for upload

    • @dukecity7688
      @dukecity7688 Год назад +1

      I read this book. Herman Melville wrote the forward. There is no doubt he was mightily influenced by Owen Chase's story

  • @AncientMysteriesAndInnovations
    @AncientMysteriesAndInnovations 3 года назад

    Brutal

  • @annohalloran6020
    @annohalloran6020 Год назад +1

    Whalers couldn’t fish from their boats? Or the island??

    • @jerrymarshall2095
      @jerrymarshall2095 9 месяцев назад

      I hear u,I would've stayed on the island and made a fishing net out of the sails or shot me a shark .

  • @witkocaster
    @witkocaster Год назад +1

    I wonder -they had a lot of whale oil onboard of Essex, oil is edible and very caloric, fat is excellent source of energy. Why they didn't take few barrels of oil as emergency rations?

    • @jerrymarshall2095
      @jerrymarshall2095 9 месяцев назад

      Good question or put the pistol to those sharks or dolphins.theyre edible

    • @festina_lente7655
      @festina_lente7655 6 месяцев назад +1

      Or stopped by a Long John Silvers🤷

    • @michelleeden2272
      @michelleeden2272 5 месяцев назад

      I think all the oil was in the hold--the bottom of the ship--and they couldn't get to it.

    • @dorismahoney1440
      @dorismahoney1440 4 месяца назад

      Crazy the danger of the sea.

    • @dorismahoney1440
      @dorismahoney1440 4 месяца назад

      Even other sea animals attack.

  • @rebelusa6585
    @rebelusa6585 2 года назад

    A tragedy, a real tragedy

  • @jimithingjames
    @jimithingjames 4 года назад +2

    . . . WOW.

  • @Dean90125
    @Dean90125 6 месяцев назад

    Anyone here after reading Moby Dick?

    • @festina_lente7655
      @festina_lente7655 6 месяцев назад +1

      Watch your mouth

    • @michelleeden2272
      @michelleeden2272 5 месяцев назад

      After the Aubrey-Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. If you haven't read them, you should.

    • @Vexarax
      @Vexarax Месяц назад

      In The Heart of the Sea is one of my favourite books, and I love that this true story inspired Moby Dick :D In The Heart of the Sea is the same true story but much more expanded and told from all the perspectives with a lot more historical context and explanation too - it’s so good!!

  • @jesslyn4919
    @jesslyn4919 3 года назад

    #AwarenessConsciousness

  • @MrE1981
    @MrE1981 2 года назад +1

    Serves them right.

    • @spicyroads
      @spicyroads Год назад +4

      When I was young we rode around in cars as children without seatbelts. Nobody weighed the morality of it . I wonder what you’re doing today that will be considered appalling in 25 years ?

    • @stephengalindo6340
      @stephengalindo6340 Год назад +2

      @@spicyroads driving an EV

    • @tylus8994
      @tylus8994 Год назад +1

      God people are so dumb. Without those whaling ships and other "unethical" activities back in the 1800s(not talking about slavery) you probably wouldn't have the iPad or iPhone you typed that comment on. People with easy lives built on the backs of hard ones and have 0 perspective.

    • @danthedewman1
      @danthedewman1 11 месяцев назад

      soy boy

    • @festina_lente7655
      @festina_lente7655 6 месяцев назад

      Don't cry emo boy😂😂😂