Mutiny on the "Globe": The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

ISBN-13: 9780747561736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str.

Thomas Heffernan

Opis

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 21-year-old Samuel Comstock, whose dream was to found hiw own tropical kingdom. This eventually led to his own violent death at the hands of his co-mutineers.

O autorze

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.