amazing stories of survival
Anyone who knows me well knows there’s nothing I love better than true life sea adventure. I’m talking, of course, about the Mexican fisherman who have been lost at sea since last November. This kind of thing has happened before. The captain and crew of the whaleship Essex lived through a similar ordeal — they were adrift for three months. The story of the whale that rammed and sunk their ship was Melville’s inspiration for Moby Dick, but the non-fiction accounts (one first-hand account by Owen Chase, first mate on the Essex; the other a more recent NY Times bestseller by Nathaniel Philbrick) are thrilling enough!
