In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

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Philbrick uses a third person perspective in In the Heart of the Sea. In this way, the perspective gives an omniscient and historical voice, one that is reliable and that is able to incorporate more recent scholarship on the effects of starvation and dehydration.