In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000FDKAB6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 303 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has been the recipient of a PEN/Hubert Church Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the John Lyman Award for Best Book of American Maritime History. Native New Zealander JOAN DRUETT is the author of eleven books on maritime history and historical fiction. While much of her research is carried out in the Un
Howes Norris by South Pacific Kanaka tribesmen. From Publishers Weekly Nonfiction accounts about whaling tend to intone Melville's name like a mantra, and Druett's volume about the bedeviled 1841-1845 voyage of the Sharon is no exception. Druett draws on recently unearthed journals from the voyage to assemble a terrific account of an unusually eventful voyage. . By any measure, the expedition was a catastrophe, with mutiny, desertion and the mid-voyage murder of Capt. She's more interested in plumbing the
Joan Druett, a historian who's been called a female Patrick O'Brian by the Wall Street Journal, dramatically re-creates the mystery of the ill-fated whaleship and reveals a voyage filled with savagery under the command of one of the most ruthless captains to sail the high seas.. A year later, while most of the crew was out hunting, Captain Howes Norris was brutally murdered. On May 25, 1841, the Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling ground of the northwestern Pacific. After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical murder mystery" (USA Today). Single-handedly, the third officer launched a surprise attack to recapture the Sharon, killing two of the attackers and subduing the other. When the men in the whaleboats returned, they found four crew members on board, three of whom were covered in blood, the other screaming from
An enjoyable read for armchair historians, especially those who like sea stories. John R. Moore As a lover of such true adventure stories, I was a bit disappointed in places where there are details missing. I think that given the paucity of known facts in this case, though, Ms Druett has done a remarkable job of ferreting out what there is to know and of. The Darker Side of Whaling Whaling as romantic adventure has been with us since before Herman Melville put pen to paper. Even today, amidst a reassessment of the brutality of whale killing and its ecological impact, we still maintain a peculiar nostalgia for the days of the sail ship an. Sadist On The High Seas Joan Druett adds her name to the growing list of authors who have, in the last few years, tackled the topic of seafaring misadventure. We have had several excellent entries in this genre, including Nathaniel Philbrick's "In The Heart Of The Sea" and Mike Dash'