The Ocean’s Wrath: Whaling and the Sinking of the Essex
From the latter years of the 1700s until the middle of the 1800s, hundreds of ships sailed from American ports, like Nantucket, to hunt the largest creatures in the ocean: whales. The ships sought out an oceanic commodity as valuable as gold, the oil derived from the whales’ blubber. Every year, these ships decimated entire pods […]
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