"Like one, that on a lonesome road / Doth walk in fear and dread / And, having once turned round, walks on / And turns no more his head / Because he knows a frightful fiend / Doth close behind him tread" - Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex
Today in 1820, The Essex was struck by a sperm whale and sand 2,000 miles off South America; partly inspiring Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
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