Episode 45: Dark Waters

1. “The Sinking of the Steamship Arctic,” Thought.Co, April 4 2017, https://www.thoughtco.com/the-sinking-of-the-steamship-arctic-1774002

2. “5 Maritime Disasters You Might Not Know About,” History, November 5 2013,  https://www.history.com/news/5-maritime-disasters-you-might-not-know-about

3. “The Harrowing Story Of The Whaleship ‘Essex’ That Inspired ‘Moby Dick,’” All That’s Interesting, November 2 2020, https://allthatsinteresting.com/essex-ship

4. “Jamestown Colony,” History, March 8 2010, https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/jamestown

5. Historic Jamestowne, https://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/the-starving-time/

6. “Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism,” Smithsonian Magazine, April 30 2013, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/starving-settlers-in-jamestown-colony-resorted-to-cannibalism-46000815/

7. “The True-Life Horror That Inspired Moby-Dick,” Smithsonian Magazine, March 1 2013, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-life-horror-that-inspired-moby-dick-17576/

8. “How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World,” Smithsonian Magazine, December 2015  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nantucket-came-to-be-whaling-capital-of-world-180957198/

9. “This Real-Life Whaling Disaster Inspired ‘Moby Dick,’” National Geographic, November/December 2016, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/whaling-essex-sperm-whale-nantucket-moby-dick-melville

10. Thomas Nickerson et al., The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts, (Penguin Books, 2000). 

11. Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, (Turtleback Books, 2015).