Laurinda J. (lmj) reviewed on 7/29/2010

Philbrick did an amazing amount of research and inserted it seamlessly to accentuate and contextualize the story. It's really well written in a way that provides you with the story and all the tools to analyze it both as a novel, a memoir, and a history of whaling, Nantucket, and survival. Loved it.

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