Mutiny on the Globe
Subtitle: the fatal voyage of Samuel Comstock
By: Thomas Farel Heffernan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Comstock, Samuel, 1802-1824.; Globe (Whaling ship); Globe Mutiny, 1824.; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
Description: "Samuel Comstock was born with a sense of destiny that is sometimes granted to great artists or leaders of men; in his case, it was the mark of Cain. Though he had vowed from childhood that he would do some great thing, his only legacy was a reign of terror.".

"He came from a family that had grown rich trading in whaling products, so it was no surprise that young Samuel Comstock - as wild and headstrong a youth as had ever been seen on the wharves of Nantucket or New York - signed on to the whale ship Globe in 1822. What would have been surprising, had anyone known, were the contents of his sea chest: a diverse collection of seeds, tools, medical supplies, and weapons.

Later - too late - his brother William remembered that Samuel used to talk about establishlng his own island kingdom in the South Seas. Of course no one had taken him seriously."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: ix; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction: Ghosts of Nako
pagenum: xv; label: 1
title: Brothers
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Port Life and a Sinking Star
pagenum: 35; label: 3
title: I Have the Bloody Hand
pagenum: 49; label: 4
title: No Lasting City
pagenum: 88; label: 5
title: Etto Amro Pad Ioon Aneo
pagenum: 109; label: 6
title: The News
pagenum: 135; label: 7
title: Dolphin
pagenum: 152; title: Appendix A The Crew of the Globe
pagenum: 217; title: Appendix B George Comstock, "Narrative"
pagenum: 219; title: Appendix C Lay and Hussey's Marshallese Vocabulary
pagenum: 237; title: Appendix D The Comstock Family
pagenum: 241; title: Appendix E "The Young Mutineer"
pagenum: 243; title: Bibliography and Notes
pagenum: 249