In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Audiobook (Free)

From the author of In the Hurricane’s Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a significant film starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard.

Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson superstar within a film based on this Country wide Book Award-winning account of the real events behind Moby Dick.

In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, departing the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny motorboats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known papers and vivid information regarding the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling information of the infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea-and today, its epic version for the screen-will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.