An edition of Demon of the waters (2002)

Demon of the waters

the true story of the mutiny on the whaleship Globe

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An edition of Demon of the waters (2002)

Demon of the waters

the true story of the mutiny on the whaleship Globe

1st ed.

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Documents the mutiny aboard the whaler Globe, which was organized by twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, his plan to build an island kingdom, and the rescue voyage of the Navy schooner Dolphin.

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Little, Brown
Language
English
Pages
308

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Subjects

Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Globe (Whaling ship), Shipwreck survival, Globe Mutiny, 1824, Whaling, Nantucket island (mass.), history, Globe mutiny, 1824

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Samuel Comstock (1802-1824)
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Demon of the waters: the true story of the mutiny on the whaleship Globe
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Part One
Prologue 3
Jay Small's Big Hit 5
Quixote Bent 10
The Island and the World 19
The Birth of the Globe 26
Comstock and Worth 37
The Brothers Comstock 43
Christopher Mitchell & Co. 48
Part Two
Irene 59
William Lay 64
Comstock's Cold Eye 71
The Greenhand's Education 77
First Trial 85
The First Whale 91
Cutting In 96
The Golden Age 104
Abandoned Wretches and Cruel Beings I11
Comstock's Creatures 117
Consul Hogan 122
The Loose Hatchet 124
The Bloody Hand 130
Lumbert's Letter I34
The Fourteen-Second Glass 136
Lord Mulgraves Range I4I
The Man of Blood 147
The Great Escape I56
The Mysterious Thain 164
Part Three
The Admiral 173
Uncle Gorham I79
Uncle Isaac and Mad Jack 186
Augustus and Herman 194
The Ambassadors 202
Midshipman S. 208
Survivor 216
The Massacre 220
A Map of the End 227
The Diplomats 237
The Almanac 242.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-289).

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
910.4/5, 910.09/164
Library of Congress
G545 .G53 2002a, DU710 .G53 2002, G545.G53 2002a

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 308 p. :
Number of pages
308

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24768227M
Internet Archive
demonofwaterstru00gibs
ISBN 10
0316299235
ISBN 13
9780316299237
LCCN
2002102892
OCLC/WorldCat
49700362

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15859431W

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