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Thomas Farel Heffernan, Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe: the Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock.(Book Review)
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Thomas Farel Heffernan, Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock. Cloth W. W. Norton, 2002. Paper Penguin Books, 2003.
Thomas Farel Heffernan's Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe is a dramatic and exciting read. The tale has all the elements of a modern novel--murder, intrigue, megalomania, and psychological tension--but it recounts actual events. In engaging prose, Heffernan recounts one of the bloodiest mutinies on board any American vessel, the 1822 mutiny on the Nantucket whaleship Globe. While many writers have been intrigued by the Globe mutiny over ...
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