Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy
Subtitle: from American slave to Arctic hero
By: Dennis L. Noble and Truman R. Strobridge ; foreword by Gene Allen Smith and James Bradford.
Contributors: Strobridge, Truman R.
Series: New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780813033686
Subjects: Healy, Michael A., -- 1839-1904; United States. -- Revenue-Cutter Service -- Officers -- Biography; Ship captains -- Alaska -- Biography; African American sailors -- Alaska -- Biography; African Americans -- Biography; Slaves -- Georgia -- Biography; Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies; Alaska -- Gold discoveries; Alaska -- History -- 19th century
Genres: Biography; Case studies
Description: xx, 326 p. : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Georgia plantation; title: Down to the sea; title: Love and the sailor; title: Eastern interlude; title: Healy's polar passion; title: Cannons, expeditions, shipwrecks, and reindeer; title: The captain and the immortal bear; title: "Monster Healy"; title: The czar of the North; title: "I steer by no man's compass but my own"; title: "A desperate and dangerous man"; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix 1: Important dates in the life of Capt. Michael A. Healy; title: Appendix 2: The family of Michael Augustine Healy; title: Appendix 3: Charges brought against Capt. Michael A. Healy in 1896 trial.