From the author of In the Hurricane’s Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a significant motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard.

Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in a film predicated on this National Book Award-winning accounts of the true events behind Moby Dick.

In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an furious sperm whale, departing the desperate crew to drift for a lot more than ninety days in three small ships. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known papers and vivid information regarding the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling information of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea-and now, its epic version for the screen-will permanently place the Essex tragedy in the American historical canon.