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Mutiny on the Globe Thomas Heffernan

Mutiny on the Globe By Thomas Heffernan

Mutiny on the Globe by Thomas Heffernan


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Summary

Whilst sailing between Hawaii and Tahiti in January 1824, the captain and officers of the Nantucket whaling ship 'the Globe' were attacked with whaling gear, shot, and dumped overboard under the audacious direction of twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, whose dream was to found his own tropical kingdom. This book offers an account of this mutiny.

Mutiny on the Globe Summary

Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock by Thomas Heffernan

Whilst sailing between Hawaii and Tahiti in January 1824, the captain and officers of the Nantucket whaling ship 'the Globe' were attacked with whaling gear, shot, and dumped overboard under the audacious direction of twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, whose dream was to found his own tropical kingdom. This eventually led to his own violent death at the hands of his co-mutineers. Only a few members of the Globe's crew survived: two men who were rescued after years on a Pacific atoll, bizarrely spared after their fellows had been slaughtered by the natives living there, and a handful more who retook the ship and carried news of the mutiny to the US Navy. Escaping with the ship was George Comstock, Samuel's younger brother and a horrified witness to his brother's murderous deeds. George's remarkable firsthand account, written upon his return to Nantucket, has never been published in full, and Mutiny on the Globe will present portions of it for the first time.

About Thomas Heffernan

Thomas Heffernan is a professor of English and current president of the Melville Society. He is the author of Stove by a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex, which was both inspiration and source for Nathaniel Philbrick's best-selling In the Heart of the Sea.

Additional information

GOR004198715
9780747561736
0747561737
Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock by Thomas Heffernan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20030407
320
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