Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock
Title | Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Farel Heffernan |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2002-06-17 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 0393245187 |
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.
Mutiny on the Globe
Title | Mutiny on the Globe PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Farel Heffernan |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393041637 |
Later - too late - his brother William remembered that Samuel used to talk about establishlng his own island kingdom in the South Seas. Of course no one had taken him seriously."--BOOK JACKET.
Mutiny on the Globe
Title | Mutiny on the Globe PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Palmer Hoyt |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Globe Mutiny, 1824 |
ISBN | 9780213165765 |
Mutiny on the Globe
Title | Mutiny on the Globe PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin P. Hoyt |
Publisher | Lyons Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2003-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781592281183 |
The true story of one of the most monstrous crimes ever committed on the high seas.
Mutiny on the Globe
Title | Mutiny on the Globe PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Farel Heffernan |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Globe Mutiny, 1824 |
ISBN | 9780747560982 |
Moby Dick meets Mutiny on the Bounty in this thrilling story of violence, megalomania and high-adventure survival in the Pacific islands.
A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824
Title | A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 PDF eBook |
Author | William Lay |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 1828 |
Genre | Globe Mutiny, 1824 |
ISBN |
A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board the ship Globe, of Nantucket, etc
Title | A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board the ship Globe, of Nantucket, etc PDF eBook |
Author | William LAY (and HUSSEY (Cyrus M.)) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 1828 |
Genre | |
ISBN |