My niece and nephew recently sent me a book about ship wrecks on the Great Lakes. I found the book very interesting \u2014 it describes some of the earlier battles between mankind and the Great Lakes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe because of that book, an interesting article caught my eye a few days ago. The book Moby-Dick<\/em>, by Herman Melville was inspired by a real event that might have been even more spellbinding than the book. In 1820, the Nantucket whale ship Essex<\/em> was repeatedly rammed by a large sperm whale and sank in the Pacific Ocean, leaving the 20 crew members adrift in three small whaleboats for 95 days. Only eight men survived. My niece and nephew recently sent me a book about ship wrecks on the Great Lakes. I found the book very interesting \u2014 it describes some of the earlier battles between mankind and the Great Lakes. Maybe because of that … Continue reading
Maybe truth is stranger than fiction\u2026..
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