August Book Club Selection: In the Heart of the Sea

The Sunday Assembly Gainesville Book Club has chosen In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick as its selection for August. The club will meet Saturday, August 13 at 11 am via Zoom. Interested in joining? Contact the club via email at [email protected].

From GoodReads.com:
In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea—and now, its epic adaptation for the screen—will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.

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