Jenny’s Reviews > In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex > Status Update

I’ve never read Moby Dick (which is supposedly inspired by this tragedy) so I don’t really know what happened to the Essex but from all this foreshadowing I know one thing: these lads are absolutely cooked

“A Nantucketer didn’t just go for a walk on a Sunday afternoon, he went on a ‘rantum scoot,’ which meant an excursion with no definite destination”

not the rantum scoot 💀

the secret code for whittling/ job seeking is very interesting

the baby tried to harpoon that poor cat? 😭

“No matter how much the inhabitants might try to hide it, there was a savagery about this island, a bloodlust and pride…”

“a common spiritually infused mission — to maintain a peaceful life on land while raising bloody havoc at sea”

DAMN HE IS CALLING THE QUAKERS OUT 😭😭

“Thou didst, O Lord, create the mighty whale”…

“a past that we forget we need to know”