基本説明
昨年全米で公開された映画「白鯨との闘い」がいよいよ日本でも公開されます。
メルヴィルの名作「白鯨」の題材になったと言われる実在の捕鯨船難破事故。
海事ジャーナリストの著者が2000年にこの事件を描き全米図書賞に輝いた本書が原作です。
映画を観る前に是非原作もお読みください。(2016/01/06)
Full Description
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration for `Moby-Dick' - reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy.When the whaleship Essex set sail from Nantucket in 1819, the unthinkable happened. A mere speck in the vast Pacific ocean - and powerless against the forces of nature - Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale, and her twenty crewmen were forced to take to the open sea in three small boats. Ninety days later only a handful of survivors were rescued - and a terrifying story of desperation, cannibalism and courage was revealed...One of the greatest sea yarns ever spun, `In the Heart of the Sea' is the true story of the extraordinary events that inspired Herman Melville's masterpiece `Moby-Dick'.
