About the Author

Owen Chase was born in Nantucket. First Mate on board the Essex, he was rescued from its wreckage on 18 February 1821. He was later appointed Captain of the Carroll in 1832 and was to undertake two trips to the South Pacific before his career came to an end. He died in March 1869, aged seventy-one.

Reviews

'Testament to the extraordinary horrors that those men of the Essex suffered, out on the infinite deep' Daily Telegraph