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The Tragic Story that Inspired “Moby Dick”: “Drinking His Own Urine and Gnawing on the Bones of His Companions”
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The famous novel Moby Dick is one of the founding myths of American literature, but few know that Herman Melville did not invent history. It was inspired almost to the letter by a real event that occurred 30 years earlier, in 1820: the shipwreck of the Essex whaler. Nantucket's boat set sail with 20 men on board to hunt cachalots, but in the middle of the Pacific, a much larger than normal animal landed the ship to sink it, beginning one of the …
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