#and man what a stroke of luck that this magazine was open AND had pdfs available online

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Just doing some quick research and I'm getting lost so I'm just gonna post about my thought process so I can pick it back up later

The Problem: I don't know who the Cyanea nozakii is named after and none of the sources will tell me

Solution: Look up the original description of the jellyfish, which is listed in the jellyfish's WoRMS page

Problem: WoRMS doesn't have a copy listed on their website

Solution: Search this up

Solution (2): Omg I can't believe I found it on the Library of Congress Catalog this is absolutely amazing, with an online pdf copy no less...

Heck, after searching all the articles made in 1891, I even found the link that shows the original(?) description Cyanea nozakii by my favourite dude, Kamakichi Kishinouye

Problem: I can't read this. at all. h

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (https://kickass.cd/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-the-tragedy-of-the-whaleship-essex-tt8119888.html) I downloaded the pdf form of the book from a Torrent site

Francis Paulo G. Delos Santos Grade 11 – Bow

Ms. Joanna Jacinth Ferrer Instructor

About the Author

Nathaniel Philbrick (born June 11, 1956) is an American author and a member of the Philbrick literary family. He won the year 2000 National Book Award for his maritime history, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. His 2006 Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War was named one of The New York Times' ten best books of the year and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Personal life Nathaniel Philbrick was born on June 11, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Marianne (Dennis) and Thomas Philbrick, an English professor. He currently lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Philbrick is married to Melissa Douthart Philbrick, who is Executive Director of Remain Nantucket. They have two children, Jennie and Ethan. He moved to Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1986, and is a leading authority on the history of the island.

Education Philbrick graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned his bachelor's degree in English at Brown University, and his master's degree in American literature at Duke University. Philbrick was Brown's first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978; that year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, Rhode Island.

Career After grad school, Philbrick worked for four years at Sailing World magazine; was a freelancer for a number of years, during which time he wrote/edited several sailing books, including Yaahting: A Parody (1984), for which he was the editor-in-chief; during this time he was also the primary caregiver for his two children. After moving to Nantucket in 1986, he became interested in the history of the island and wrote Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People. He was offered the opportunity to start the Egan Maritime Institute in 1995. In 2000, he published In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. This was followed by Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, in 2003. In 2006, Philbrick published a new history of the founding of the Plymouth colony in the United States, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn was published in May 2010. His book, Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution about Boston during the early years of the Revolution was published on April 30, 2013.

Awards In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award for Nonfiction;[1] Revenge of the Whale won a Boston Globe Horn Book Award; Sea of Glory won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize and the Albion-Monroe Award from the National Maritime Historical Society. Mayflower was a finalist for both the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and it won the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction. The Last Stand was named a New York Times Notable book, a 2010 Montana Book Award Honor Book, and a 2011 ALA Notable Book. Why Read Moby-Dick? was a finalist for the New England Society Book Award and was named to the 2012 Listen List for Outstanding Audiobook Narration from the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the ALA. Bunker Hill was awarded both the 2013 New England Book Award for Non-Fiction and the 2014 New England Society Book Award as well as the 2014 Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars. Philbrick has also received the Byrne Waterman Award from the Kendall Whaling Museum, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for distinguished service from the USS Constitution Museum, the Nathaniel Bowditch Award from the American Merchant Marine Museum, the William Bradford Award from the Pilgrims Society, the Boston History Award from the Bostonian Society, and the New England Book Award from the New England Independent Booksellers Association.

Summary of the Book What was supposed to be a routine mission becomes an unprecedented disaster for the whaleship Essex. Launched from Nantucket in 1819, the Essex is expected to take a two-year journey to the Pacific Ocean before returning home with an estimated amount of 20,000 barrels of whale oil. Led by the newly promoted Captain George Pollard Jr. with his first mate Owen Chase and second mate Matthew Joy, the Essex was manned by a full crew of rookies that includes fourteen-year-old Thomas Nickerson and Chase's nephew Owen Coffin. Within a few days, the Essex nearly flips because of the captain’s orders to confront the storm. Though Captain Pollard wants to return to Nantucket for repairs, he was convinced to continue by Chase and Joy. In the next couple of days, they had a tough time finding whales, they don't spot a single one until crossing the equator. Thankfully, their luck turns around by the time they round the base of South America. After reaching the Pacific Ocean, the crew decides to head to the Offshore Grounds, a newly discovered breeding ground of whales but is thousands of miles away from land. During a hunt, the Essex is shockingly attacked by a sperm whale, the first recorded instance of an intentional attack on humans by a sperm whale. 1st mate Owen Chase missed the opportunity to kill the whale before it happened, which is a failure that haunted him for the rest of his life. The desperate surviving crew members rig their tiny whaleboats with sails in an attempt to make the long journey to South America. Each officer is placed in charge of a whaleboat: Coffin is on Pollard's crew, while Nickerson travels with Chase. Once again, Pollard has only been convinced of this course of action that he had wanted to travel to the Society Islands instead. If it wasn’t for Chase and Joy, they would have still been alive. Although they hit a few strokes of luck, catching a few fish for food and chancing upon a tiny deserted island for refuge, the whaleboats set off to the open ocean again and are eventually separated, and the starving sailors descend into cannibalism. At one point, Pollard's crew runs out of food, and Owen Coffin was killed and had been eaten by his crew mates. In the end, five sailors (including Pollard, Chase, and Nickerson) are rescued near the coast of South America (three men had remained on that tiny island and were rescued later), though the Essex tragedy continues to haunt them until their deaths.

Lessons Learned • That fame and fortune could lead you to the person you could not be – in the story, in the instance that the captain ordered to go back to shore for repairs but his chief mate disagreed because they will go back without even a single barrel of oil which would ruin the name he had built up in the whaling industry. • Desperate times call for desperate and just measures – unlike in the story, in desperation the crew led to cannibalism and eventually Owen Collin was killed and eaten, in times like that you could say that they did everything to survive but to sacrifice a life just to keep them alive? The value of one for the value of many? It is so immoral.

Critique and Reactions The story of the Essex was written exquisitely by Nathaniel Philbrick, full of adventure and thrill, a so called “imaginary” great big white whale, which inspired the story of Moby dick, was so entertaining on my part because we don’t know exactly what is lurking under our oceans and seas, that a creature that size could be true and is in existence. The attitude of the first mate was so realistic to the common first mate who worked hard but did not had the chance to be the captain, in his experience he was all ahead of himself that he would lead the Essex to success. The captain was so arrogant of himself because of his family name, he though ta=hat he would be perfect as captain even though he lacked the experience. All I can say is that the story was well written in the past and current situations of whaling or seafaring in the present.

References Wikipedia. (n.d.). Retrieved July 29, 2017, from (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Philbrick) KickAss Torrents. (n.d.). Retrieved July 29, 2017, from (https://kickass.cd/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-the-tragedy-of-the-whaleship-essex-tt8119888.html) Book Review: ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ by Nathaniel Philbrick. (n.d.). Retrieved July 29, 2017, from (https://writersedit.com/5398/book-reviews/book-review-heart-sea-nathaniel-philbrick/) What they're reading: Nathaniel Philbrick. (n.d.). Retrieved July 29, 2017, from (http://bookpage.com/the-book-case/19843-what-theyre-reading-nathaniel-philbrick)