The sparkling island off Cape Cod is the location of Ron Howard’s new film,based on the loyal story that inspired Moby-Dick
‘Nantucket!” wrote Herman Melville in his 1851 novel Moby-Dick. “occupy out your map and look at it. See what a genuine corner of the world it occupies …[an] elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.”But this pretty New England island was itself a powerful background, or as the opener to Melville’s Great American Novel. And beneath that soaring work of fiction was an even more outlandish tale: the tragedy,in 1820, of the whale ship Essex.
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Source: theguardian.com