Demon of the Waters

by Gibson, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780316299237
• ISBN10: 0316299235
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-04-24
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Gregory Gibson is the author of the highly praised Gone Boy: A Walkabout. He lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

Part One
Prologue	3	(2)
Jay Small's Big Hit	5	(5)
Quixote Bent	10	(9)
The Island and the World	19	(7)
The Birth of the Globe	26	(11)
Comstock and Worth	37	(6)
The Brothers Comstock	43	(5)
Christopher Mitchell & Co.	48	(11)
Part Two
Irene	59	(5)
William Lay	64	(7)
Comstock's Cold Eye	71	(6)
The Greenhand's Education	77	(8)
First Trial	85	(6)
The First Whale	91	(5)
Cutting In	96	(8)
The Golden Age	104	(7)
Abandoned Wretches and Cruel Beings	111	(6)
Comstock's Creatures	117	(5)
Consul Hogan	122	(2)
The Loose Hatchet	124	(6)
The Bloody Hand	130	(4)
Lumbert's Letter	134	(2)
The Fourteen-Second Glass	136	(5)
Lord Mulgraves Range	141	(6)
The Man of Blood	147	(9)
The Great Escape	156	(8)
The Mysterious Thain	164	(9)
Part Three
The Admiral	173	(6)
Uncle Gorham	179	(7)
Uncle Isaac and Mad Jack	186	(8)
Augustus and Herman	194	(8)
The Ambassadors	202	(6)
Midshipman S.	208	(8)
Survivor	216	(4)
The Massacre	220	(7)
A Map of the End	227	(10)
The Diplomats	237	(5)
The Almanac	242	(7)
Key to Chapter Silhouettes	249	(2)
Notes	251	(32)
Bibliography	283	(8)
Acknowledgments	291	(2)
About the Illustrators	293	(2)
Index	295