Mutiny on the Globe The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

Name: Mutiny on the Globe The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock
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ISBN: 9780393335682

ISBN-10: 0393335682

ISBN-13: 9780393335682

Edition: N/A

Authors: Thomas Farel Heffernan

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Thomas Heffernan lives in Garden City, New York.