[MtnClimber]

Whales can fight back too.

[Argus]

This is the movie IN THE HEART OF THE SEA.

[BradyLS]

The first half of the late movie, In The Heart of the Sea, is riveting story-telling as the crew if a whaling ship (with a captain and first mate at odds with one another) deals with inclement weather and a fearless whale. The second half is just as harrowing. But because it’s all about how the survivors of the whale’s attack drift helplessly in life boats for weeks on end, it’s not nearly as thrilling.

[Oratam]

I think Pollard locked himself in his room and fasted on the anniversary of the sinking of the Essex for the rest of his life.

[clearcarbon]

" The True-Life Horror That Inspired Moby-Dick”

[BipolarBob]

The original name was Mocha (for the town) Dick and Melville changed it to Moby and no one knows why

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I read “In the Heart of the Sea” a few years ago and enjoyed it. I just finished another shipwreck novel based on a true story: “Boon Island” by Kenneth Roberts written in 1956. He knows how to tell a rip roaring good tale. This one takes place in England, at sea, and then on Boon Island off the coast of Maine in 1710.

[henbane]

Late 19th Century Scrimshaw Whale’s Tooth "Essex Whale Ship Sinking"

[windcliff]

ping

[sparklite2]

Here’s to Moby Dick, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and all that Dickensian crap we had to read in school while Sinclair Lewis, Hemingway, and John Dos Passos languished unheard-of. It’s a wonder any of us read voluntarily again.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[tumblindice]

You know, when Ishmael climbed into bed with Queequeg, I remember reading this when I was young, I thought to myself, “Hey now, this ain’t right.”
Of course it was nothing, Ishmael was more concerned that his bunkmate was a headhunter.

[HockeyPop]

THE sea, perhaps because of its saltness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul. The old sea; the sea of many years ago, whose servants were devoted slaves and went from youth to age or to a sudden grave without needing to open the book of life, because they could look at eternity re- flected on the element that gave the life and dealt the death. Like a beautiful and unscrupulous woman, the sea of the past was glorious in its smiles, irresistible in its anger, capricious, enticing, illogical, irresponsible; a thing to love, a thing to fear. It cast a spell, it gave joy, it lulled gently into boundless faith; then with quick and causeless anger it killed. But its cruelty was redeemed by the charm of its inscrutable mystery, by the immensity of its promise, by the supreme witchery of its possible favour. Strong men with childlike hearts were faithful to it, were content to live by its grace-- to die by its will. An Outcast Of the Islands~Joseph Conrad