Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
A bloody mutiny on a whaling journey, followed by an incredible tale of survival on land and sea.
Samuel Comstock knew he was born to do some great thing, but his only legacy was a reign of terror. Two years out of Nantucket on a whaling...
Samuel Comstock knew he was born to do some great thing, but his only legacy was a reign of terror. Two years out of Nantucket on a whaling...
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A bloody mutiny on a whaling journey, followed by an incredible tale of survival on land and sea.
Samuel Comstock knew he was born to do some great thing, but his only legacy was a reign of terror. Two years out of Nantucket on a whaling voyage in 1824, he organized a mutiny and murdered the officers of the Globe. It was a premeditated act; in his sea chest Comstock carried the seeds, tools, and weapons with which he would found his own island kingdom. He had often described these plans to one of his brothers, William. But the chief witness and chronicler of the mutiny was young George Comstock, who neither participated in nor approved of his brother's savage deed.
Within days of settling on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Comstock was murdered by his fellow mutineers. Six innocent seamenGeorge among themseized the Globe and escaped; most of the rest were killed by natives. Two survivors lived for twenty-two months, half-prisoners and half-adoptees of the natives, until they were rescued in a bold and dangerous maneuver by a landing party from the U.S. schooner Dolphin.
The Globe's story is one of terror, adventure, endurance, and luck. It is also the story of one of the most bizarre and frightening minds that ever went to sea.
Autoren-Porträt von Thomas Farel Heffernan
Thomas Farel Heffernan is the author of Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex and former president of the Melville Society. He lives in Garden City, New York.
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- Autor: Thomas Farel Heffernan
- 2014, 304 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393245187
- ISBN-13: 9780393245189
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2014
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