Adapted for young people from in the Heart of the Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick. Never in the history of the whaling hunting had a ship been attacked by a whale. But on November 20,1820, the unthinkable happened. The whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. In minutes, the twenty-man crew (several of whom were only teenager)found themselves stranded in the middle of the pacific Ocean, in three leaky boats with the minimal supplies and little hope. ages 12 and up 164 pages