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I read In the Heart of the Sea back when it was first published 15 odd years ago and, unusually for me, it sticks quite well in my mind. I found it interesting and well worth the read (but I have an interest in the sea), however for me the interest was better than its readability, if that makes sense: I think that perhaps echoes similar to what a couple of others have said.
A book along sailing ship whaling lines that I enjoyed (read a number of times) much more than In the Heart of the Sea and Moby Dick was Frank Bullen's The Cruise of the Cachelot, written at the end of the 19th Century and is a non-fictional travel narration of his time at sea as a whaler. I am familiar with the geography and history of one of the regions he cruised in and he relates quite accurately about that, so I suspect that the book is not much embellished with exaggerations as some narratives are.
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