Demon of the waters
Subtitle: the true story of the mutiny on the whaleship Globe
By: Gregory Gibson ; illustrations by Erik Ronnberg and Gary Tonkin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780316299237
Subjects: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks; Globe (Whaling ship); Globe Mutiny, 1824
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-289).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part One; title: Prologue 3; title: Jay Small's Big Hit 5; title: Quixote Bent 10; title: The Island and the World 19; title: The Birth of the Globe 26; title: Comstock and Worth 37; title: The Brothers Comstock 43; title: Christopher Mitchell & Co. 48; title: Part Two; title: Irene 59; title: William Lay 64; title: Comstock's Cold Eye 71; title: The Greenhand's Education 77; title: First Trial 85; title: The First Whale 91; title: Cutting In 96; title: The Golden Age 104; title: Abandoned Wretches and Cruel Beings I11; title: Comstock's Creatures 117; title: Consul Hogan 122; title: The Loose Hatchet 124; title: The Bloody Hand 130; title: Lumbert's Letter I34; title: The Fourteen-Second Glass 136; title: Lord Mulgraves Range I4I; title: The Man of Blood 147; title: The Great Escape I56; title: The Mysterious Thain 164; title: Part Three; title: The Admiral 173; title: Uncle Gorham I79; title: Uncle Isaac and Mad Jack 186; title: Augustus and Herman 194; title: The Ambassadors 202; title: Midshipman S. 208; title: Survivor 216; title: The Massacre 220; title: A Map of the End 227; title: The Diplomats 237; title: The Almanac 242.