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In the Heart of the Sea: Preface, read by author Nathaniel Philbrick

Author Nathaniel Philbrick reads the preface from his book "In the Heart of the Sea" as part of a Nantucket Community reading of this award-winning nonfiction at the Nantucket Whaling Museum. A New York Times bestseller, "In the Heart of the Sea," follows the crew members of Nantucket’s whaleship Essex after it was brutally taken down by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean. Crew members drifted at sea for more than 90 days in tiny lifeboats, with only eight surviving at the end of their 4,500-mile journey. The book was published in 2000 and won the National Book Award for nonfiction. It was the basis of the 2015 movie of the same title directed by Ron Howard. The book also inspired a 2001 Dateline special on NBC as well as the 2010 PBS American Experience film “Into the Deep” by Ric Burns. In 2019, the National Endowment for the Arts added the book to their ever-growing library of 32 titles in the NEA Big Read program under which libraries and non-profits can apply for grants in order to develop in-depth, community-wide programming around a common book. Nathaniel Philbrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he attended Linden Elementary School and Taylor Allderdice High School. He earned a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow. He was Brown University’s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978, the same year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, RI. After working as an editor at Sailing World magazine, he wrote and edited several books about sailing, including "The Passionate Sailor," "Second Wind," and "Yaahting: A Parody."