Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex
- ISBN-10
- 0819550523
- ISBN-13
- 9780819550521
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 273
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Author
- Thomas Farel Heffernan
Description
A thrilling documentation of the first sinking of a ship by a whale.
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