Mutiny On The Globe: The Fatal Voyage Of Samuel Comstock

Mutiny On The Globe: The Fatal Voyage Of Samuel Comstock by Heffernan Thomas Farel


ISBN
9780747560982
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
352

'Moby Dick' meets 'Mutiny On The Bounty' in this thrilling story of violence, megalomania and high-adventure survival in the Pacific islands.

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 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 native inhabitants, 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 eyewitness to his brother's murderous deeds. George's remarkable firsthand account, written upon his return to Nantucket, has never been published in full. This book presents portions of this account for the first time.
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