cerealjoe | September 17 (3) (Reply)

The other week I read a book by Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex about the crew of the Essex and how their misadventures inspired Moby Dick. First of all it reminded me that I never did finish reading Moby Dick nor did I ever watch more than ten minutes of any of the film adaptations of the book… and yet I devoured the story of the Essex and actually spent a few hours on the Open Library looking up just which libraries have the books written at the time and that were used as sources by Philbrick. Alas there is nothing in Helsinki and none of the books that really interest me were scanned by their home libraries. Sigh. And that is why I have already marked three other books about other sea voyages as "to-read".