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Book: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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  1. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.
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  2. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    In the year 1712, a Captain Hussey, cruising in his little boat for right whales along Nantucket's south shore, was blown out to sea in a fierce northerly gale.
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  3. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    Many of the so-called American characteristics,' a chronicler of the {WW2 University of Minnesota starvation} experiment wrote, '-abounding energy, generosity, optimism-become intelligible as the expected behavior response of a well-fed people.
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    confronted them now. When first presented
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  5. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    Then I'll haste to wed a sailor, and send him off to sea, For a life of independence, is the pleasant life for me. But every now and then I shall like to see his face, For it always seems to me to beam with manly grace, With his brow so nobly open, and his dark and kindly eye, Oh my heart beats fondly towards him whenever he is nigh. But when he says "Goodbye my love, I'm off across the sea," First I cry for his departure, then laugh because I'm free. {"Nantucket Girl's Song," as recorded in Eliza Brock's journal}
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  6. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    After seventeen days, one of the crew suggested that they cast lots. As it turned out, the lot fell to the man who had originally made the proposal, and after lots were cast again to see who should execute him, he was killed and eaten.
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  7. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent controlled starvation and confirmed how quickly it impacts the initiative and generosity we like to think of as "American" characteristics.
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  8. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    The act of self-expression-through writing a journal or letters-often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears.
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  9. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    The day before, they had started eating the saltwater-damaged bread. The bread, which they had carefully dried in the sun, now contained all the salt of seawater but not, of course, the water. Already severely dehydrated, the men were, in effect, pouring gasoline on the fire of their thirsts-forcing their kidneys to extract additional fluid from their bodies to excrete the salt. They were beginning to suffer from a condition known as hypernatremia, in which an excessive amount of sodium can bring on convulsions.
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  10. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    Only in the heart of quickest perils; only when within the eddyings of his angry flukes; only on the profound unbounded sea, can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out.
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  11. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    In 1836, the Lydia, a Nantucket whaleship, was struck and sunk by a sperm whale, as was the Two Generals a few years later.
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  12. Nathaniel Philbrick _ In the Heart of the Sea: The

    Chase's ability to adjust his manner of leadership to the needs of his men begs comparison to one of the greatest and most revered leaders of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton.
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