Mutiny on the "Globe"

'Heffernan has brought to light one of the most horrifying mutinies of all time this is a riveting story' Sebastian Junger author of The Perfect Storm Thomas Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe is a searching impeccably researched account of one of the most horrifying and fascinating events in Nantucket's whaling history' Nathaniel Philbrick author of In the Heart of the Sea 'Thorough Scrupulous A welcome addition to the canon of whaling literature' New York Times Book Review

Whilst sailing between Hawaii and Tahiti in January 1824, the captain and officers of the Nantucket whaling ship 'the Globe' were attacked with whaling gear, shot, and dumped overboard under the audacious direction of twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, whose dream was to found his own tropical kingdom. This book offers an account of this mutiny.Whilst sailing between Hawaii and Tahiti in January 1824, the captain and officers of the Nantucket whaling ship 'the Globe' were attacked with whaling gear, shot, and dumped overboard under the audacious direction of twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, whose dream was to found his own tropical kingdom. This eventually led to his own violent death at the hands of his co-mutineers. Only a few members of the Globe's crew survived: two men who were rescued after years on a Pacific atoll, bizarrely spared after their fellows had been slaughtered by the natives living there, and a handful more who retook the ship and carried news of the mutiny to the US Navy. Escaping with the ship was George Comstock, Samuel's younger brother and a horrified witness to his brother's murderous deeds. George's remarkable firsthand account, written upon his return to Nantucket, has never been published in full, and "Mutiny on the Globe" will present portions of it for the first time.