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Title: rewarding literature any reader can enjoy
Review: After arriving in the mail, it took but a few hours to indulge all Mr Philbrick had written about the 'Essex', and the life by which a Nantucketer lived in the apex of its whaling might. Mr Philbrick deftly combines the true events of the 'Essex' from numerous written accounts, details which fill in the story with the concepts of whaling, and superb analysis of physical and psychological effects of the events which the men endured. He also uses his own professional knowledge to speculate about certain events where true facts were missing.Through cementing all these , Mr Philbrick creates a work which engrosses the reader into what whaling meant to the men on those ships, and the gruesomeness of their daily lives. Mr Philbrick obviously did his homework for this novel, which results in a rewarding experience for the reader.HIGHLY recommended.
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