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Tag Archives: Owen Chase
The second most famous whale in the world had no name. We don’t know when it was born or when it died. We just know what it did. On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean 2000 miles west of South America, this sperm whale bull, around 85 feet long, attacked a Continue Reading »
July 16, 2020, by Listen2Read Audiobook Publishers | No Comments
Tags: American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, audiobooks, Essex, Herman Melville, Listen2Read, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex, November 20 1820, Owen Chase, whale, whale boat, whaleship Essex, William Henry Chase, “Moby Dick”
Just when you thought sharks were the only animals to avoid while in the ocean, it seems some angry whales are in attack mode. Whale Attack in Queensland A giant Humpback Whale attacked a 30-foot fishing boat below the water line last week in Queensland, Australia. The pressure from the whale threw the charter boat, Continue Reading »
August 23, 2017, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Andre Stojka, Angry Whales, audiobooks, Captain Oliver Gales, Equator, Essex Whale-Ship, First Mate, Herman Melville, Humpback Whale, Listen to Read, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex, Orca Whale Little Biorka Island, Owen Chase, Pacific Ocean, Queensland Australia, Sitka Alaska, Victor Littlefield, “Jaws”, “Moby Dick”
Ron Howard has just directed a new major motion picture based on the book ” In The Heart of The Sea,” by Nathaniel Philbrick. It is a retelling of the famous sea tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, in 1820, when a giant 80-foot whale became angry at the whaleship and attacked it, bashing in the Continue Reading »
December 2, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: American Adventure Library, American Novel, Andre Stojka, audiobook, British Copyright, Captain Ahab, Carl Van Doren, Charles Dickens, Chile, Edgar Allen Poe, Epilogue, First Mate of the Essex, Harper Brothers, harpooning, Herman Melville, Ishmael, LA Opera, Listen to Read, Listen2Read.com, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick, National Public Radio, NPR, Owen Chase, Raymond Weaver, Richard Bentley, Ron Howard, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Nickerson, Victorian, whale, whaleship Essex, “All Things Considered”, “Billy Budd”, “In The Heart Of The Sea”, “Moby Dick”, “Pierre”, “Thrugh The Brazilian Wilderness”
The brutal murder of the earth’s whale population for many years has had animal rights activists up in arms. Today, most countries have agreed to stop the atrocious killing. Japan, Norway and Iceland are the only three countries which sanction whale hunting. According to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation, these three countries kill 2000 whales Continue Reading »
July 15, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: American Adventure Library, American Whaleship, Andre Stojka, Antarctica, audio book, Australia, beluga caviar, blubber, Charles Homans, environmental crime, First Mate, five year Soviet economic plan, Herman Melville, Humpback Whales, Iceland, International Whaling Commission, Japan, killing whales, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Media and Public Policy, Miller-McCune Center for Research, Monster whale, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex, New York Times, New Zealand, Nippon Research Center, Norway, Odessa, Owen Chase, Pacific Ocean, Petroleum, Publisher, Sovetkaya Rossiya, Soviet Union, Soviet Whalers, sturgeon, The Pacific Standard, Ukraine, Whale meat, whale oil, Whales, whaleship Essex, World War II, “Moby Dick”
In the 1800s, American whaling was a brutal, murderous undertaking. It was carried out by tough crewmen, on tall ships, based in Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts, who were not afraid of huge whales. They were about to learn a frightening lesson. After the American Revolutionary War, whalers had decimated the whale population in Continue Reading »
December 12, 2014, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Acusnet, American Adventure Library, Andre Stojka, audiobook, cannibalism, Captain Ahab, Essex, First Mate, First Mate of the Essex, Herman Melville, kerosene, leviathans of the deep, Listen2Read, Nantucket, New Bedford, Owen Chase, tall ships, whale ship, whaleboat, Whales, Whaling, “Moby Dick”, “Narrative of the Most Extraordinary And Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex”
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