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Demon of the waters : the true story of the mutiny on the whaleship Globe

Gibson, Gregory 1945- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780316299237
ISBN: 0316299235
Physical Description: print
vii, 308 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-289).

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: Part One -- Prologue 3 -- Jay Small's Big Hit 5 -- Quixote Bent 10 -- The Island and the World 19 -- The Birth of the Globe 26 -- Comstock and Worth 37 -- The Brothers Comstock 43 -- Christopher Mitchell & Co. 48 --Part Two -- Irene 59 -- William Lay 64 -- Comstock's Cold Eye 71 -- The Greenhand's Education 77 -- First Trial 85 -- The First Whale 91 -- Cutting In 96 -- The Golden Age 104 -- Abandoned Wretches and Cruel Beings I11 -- Comstock's Creatures 117 -- Consul Hogan 122 -- The Loose Hatchet 124 -- The Bloody Hand 130 -- Lumbert's Letter I34 -- The Fourteen-Second Glass 136 -- Lord Mulgraves Range I4I -- The Man of Blood 147 -- The Great Escape I56 -- The Mysterious Thain 164 --Part Three -- The Admiral 173 -- Uncle Gorham I79 -- Uncle Isaac and Mad Jack 186 -- Augustus and Herman 194 -- The Ambassadors 202 -- Midshipman S. 208 -- Survivor 216 -- The Massacre 220 -- A Map of the End 227 -- The Diplomats 237 -- The Almanac 242.