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“In the Heart of the Sea” True Story: All About the Real Whale Attack (and the Crew's Harrowing Turn to Cannibalism) That Inspired the 2015 Film
In Chase’s 1821 book Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, the 23-year-old sailor wrote that the starved crew cannibalized the remains of one man ...
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This Real-Life Whaling Disaster Inspired ‘Moby-Dick’
But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing whaling ships to head to more ... the captain’s 18-year-old cousin. The young man resigned himself to ...