Beneath the Heart of the Sea

by Owen Chase

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  Wharton, Edith Fighting France: from Dunkerque to Belfort Colm Tóibín

  Literary/Cultural studies & essays

  Baudelaire, Charles On wine and hashish Margaret Drabble

  Burton, Robert On melancholy

  Chesterton, G.K. On tremendous trifles Ben Schott

  Conan Doyle, Arthur On the unexplained

  Dickens, Charles On London

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  Wren, Jenny Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Jenny Éclair

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  Byron, Robert Europe in the Looking Glass Jan Morris

  Collins, Wilkie; Dickens, Charles Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, The

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott Cruise of the Rolling Junk, The Paul Theroux

  Levi, Carlo Essays on India Anita Desai

  Levi, Carlo Words are Stones Anita Desai

  Mayakovsky, Vladimir My Discovery of America Colum McCann

  Miller, Henry Aller Retour New York

  Zweig, Stefan Journeys

  Copyright

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  Beneath the Heart of the Sea, originally entitled Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex, first published in 1821

  First published by Hesperus Press Limited, 2015

  This ebook edition first published in 2015

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