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Author:	Thomas Farel Heffernan	Edition:	1
Publisher:	W W Norton & Co Inc	Edition Description:	Illustrated
ISBN-10:	0393041638	Subject:	History
ISBN-13:	9780393041637	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	--
Publication Year:	2002	Condition:	Very Good
Special Attributes:	1st Edition

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Size
Length:	280 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	21.6 oz.

Publisher's Note
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 seamen—George among them—seized 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.
Industry reviews
"[Heffernan's] magnificent MUTINY ON THE GLOBE reads like a novel--and I'm talking about the kind you race through, not the kind you read dutifully. [It] is firmly woven from facts, and clearly supported by a historian's meticulousness and care. But Heffernan is that rare historian who is more interested in telling a ripping good tale than in backloading his book with 200 pages of appendices." Salon - Stephanie Zacharek (05/09/2002)

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