Mutiny on the High Seas
Author : Edgar A. Haine
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Edgar A. Haine
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Horn
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : George Miller
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Acquittals
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Cummins
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1741961386
"Cast Away recounts, often in their own words, the epic tales of the survivors of shipwreck, mutiny and marooning through the ages and around the globe, focusing on the age of sail and steam. This enthralling book captures some of the most magical, romantic, gruesome, exciting and bizarre stories of the sea. It offers up for the readers delectation the suffering of innocents; the ruthless predations of pirates; the last-resort horrors of cannibalism; encounters with ferocious indigenous tribes; the unfettered madness of religious maniacs and psychopaths; and survival against all odds. And behind every tale of tragedy or triumph is the eternal mystery and majesty of the depthless, merciless, unpredictable ocean."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Sven Wahlroos
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
A month-by-month account of the story of the famous ship Bounty, plus background on the mutiny and the people involved.
Author : Michael L. Cooper
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780792255475
Illustrated by period artwork and photographs of historical artifacts, a biography of John Paul Jones describes how the Scots immigrant served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolution and led his men to victory over the world's greatest sea power.
Author : Patrick J. Murphy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0300170289
Parallels mutinies in today's business organizations with the shipboard rebellions of old. 15,000 first printing.
Author : Gregory A. Freeman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0230100546
The gripping account of the riot aboard the USS Kitty Hawk—and the first mutiny in U.S. Naval history In 1972, the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, and the USS Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin. Its five thousand men, cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the war, rioted--or, as Troubled Water suggests, mutinied. Disturbingly, the lines were drawn racially, black against white. By the time order was restored, careers were in tatters. Although the incident became a turning point for race relations in the Navy, this story remained buried within U.S. Navy archives for decades. With action pulled straight from a high-seas thriller, Gregory A. Freeman uses eyewitness accounts and a careful and unprecedented examination of the navy's records to refute the official story of the incident, make a convincing case for the U.S. navy's first mutiny, and shed new light on this seminal event in American history.
Author : Niklas Frykman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520355474
Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility and enslaved workers put the torch to plantation islands, out on the oceans, naval seamen by the tens of thousands turned their guns on the quarterdeck and overthrew the absolute rule of captains. By the early 1800s, anywhere between one-third and one-half of all naval seamen serving in the North Atlantic had participated in at least one mutiny, many of them in several, and some even on ships in different navies. In The Bloody Flag, historian Niklas Frykman explores in vivid prose how a decade of violent conflict onboard gave birth to a distinct form of radical politics that brought together the egalitarian culture of North Atlantic maritime communities with the revolutionary era’s constitutional republicanism. The attempt to build a radical maritime republic failed, but the red flag that flew from the masts of mutinous ships survived to become the most enduring global symbol of class struggle, economic justice, and republican liberty to this day.
Author : Charles Nordhoff
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 1989-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A British crew mutinies against the cruel commander of the Bounty in 1787.