and came up and said i'm looking for someone named owen coffin. have you have you? you know where i can find it and i'll owen coffin was what one of the people on the essex who didn't make it and pollard is reputedly said no why i hit him. the how's that for an oral tradition coming from nantucketers? and so, you know and this this is i have always had an interest in the dark side of history. i'm not i've not so much interested in the great triumphs the inspired inspiration. i'm really interested in kind of the the scary stuff that is it index to our you know, what happens to people on the toughest of times and so the the darkness of of the essex story had an immediate appeal, but what i didn't, you know, i'm a big stephen king fan and and all that kind of thing, but i really didn't anticipate w how much i would identify with the crew members during the writing of in the heart of the sea and and what was amazing for me was actually once they got into the whale boats as i was writing it. they were in the whale boats sort of during the the winter of the january and fe

when someone who had recently arrived on the ferry came up and said i am looking for someone named owen coffinnow where i can find him? i would was one of the people on the essex who did not make it. pollard has reputedly said no him? i ate him. how is that for a tradition coming from nantucket or so. i have always had an interesest in the dark side of history. i am not so much interested in the great triumphs and inspiration. i'm really interested in the scary stuff, that's indexed to whwhat happens to people until the darkness of the essex story had an immediate appeal. i am a big steven king fan. what i did not anticipate was how much i would identify with the crew members during the writing of in the heart and the sea. what was amazing for me, once they got into the whale boats as i was writing it, they were in the oil boats during the winter i in january and february. that the actual time of year i was writing the book. i had sort of a what i did not anticipate was how hard it was going to be to write about the situation. on pollard's boat there's four of them left. : : : of the story tha