True, he wasn’t swallowed — the whale spit him back out a few seconds later — but it’s still pretty close to the story from the book of Jonah. The man in question, Adrián Simancas ...
On Feb. 6, 1821, one man aboard Pollard’s ship ... he returned home and wrote his account of the whale ramming and the disastrous events that followed. His book served as the inspiration for ...