Death to the Living, Rights to the Sperm Whales

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from Cracked Spines · host Amelia Fisher and Sarah Palmer

This week, we're discussing In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick, the real life story of the shipwreck that inspired Moby Dick, a book we PROMISE that at SOME POINT we will read. Amelia gushes with frankly alarming intensity about how metal whaling culture and Nantucket Quakers were. Sarah offers some Monday morning quarterbacking about nautical survival techniques. We both feel extremely sad about people, whales, and Galapagos turtles while our cat in the background tries to destroy our recording area. Sorry about some of the audio and flow on this one. Everything I cut out in editing was our wild, frenzied cat attempting to eat the microphone. Media discussed:In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel PhilbrickIn the Heart of the Sea, the movie neither of us watched but nevertheless discuss a weird amountMoby Dick, by Hermann Melville, the book neither of us read but WE'RE GONNA SOMEDAY WE PROMISE Support the show

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