· 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 3/5(1). · THE MURDEROUS VOYAGE OF THE WHALESHIP SHARON. by Joan Druett ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 9, Druett (She Captains, , etc.) sinks her literary lance deeply into the juicy story of the murder at sea of a vicious whaling captain by mutinous islanders. Her swift, absorbing saga of the sea invokes malice, mayhem, murder, and, hovering over it all, Herman Melville. · IN THE WAKE. OF MADNESS. The Murderous Voyage. of the Whaleship Sharon. By Joan Druett. pp. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. $ NINETEENTH-CENTURY whaling embraces the Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
Joan Druett Algonquin Books (May 9, ) $ This book would make a wonderful movie. A true story of madness and murder aboard an American whaler in , it summons such maritime classics as Mutiny on the Bounty, Billy Budd, and Moby Dick-indeed, Herman Melville himself was aboard a whaler in the same waters at the very time the events recounted here were unfolding, and. In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon by Joan Druett starting at $ In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon has 2 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. In the Wake of Madness is the gripping true story of one of the bloodiest mutinies of the nineteenth century, written by an award-winning maritime historian. In , Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling grounds of the northwestern Pacific. Twelve men deserted the ship, and three Pacific Islanders joined the crew.
In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon by Joan Druett (, Hardcover, Teacher's edition). In the Wake of Madness is the gripping true story of one of the bloodiest mutinies of the nineteenth century, written by an award-winning maritime historian. In , Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling grounds of the northwestern Pacific. Twelve men deserted the ship, and three Pacific Islanders joined the crew. The true story of one of history’s most notorious mutinies is revealed in this riveting “nautical murder mystery” (USA Today). In May , the Massachusetts whaleship Sharon set out for the whaling ground of the northwestern Pacific. A year later, while most of the crew was out hunting, Capt. Howes Norris was brutally murdered.
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