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Demon of the waters
the true story of the mutiny on the whaleship Globe
By Gibson, Gregory
- ISBN
- 978-0-31629-923-7
- Publisher
- Boston : Little, Brown, c2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 2002
A whaling vessel built in 1815, the Globe was 78 feet long and staffed by a crew of 21; that one of the crew members was a psychopath bent on taking over the ship, killing his shipmates, and retiring to a South Pacific island to rule the natives seems more like fiction but in January 1825 became fact. In the early chapters of this well-written narrative, Gibson (Gone Boy: A W...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
