Episode 152.1 - "Provisions for the Kingdom-To-Be": The Globe Mutiny, Part I
Apr 26, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 5Ep. 7
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Episode description
Following up on our Battleship Potemkin bonus, we are staying in the mutinous mood with this two-part series on the whaleship Globe, and the enigmatic boatsteerer Samuel Comstock who would cast her into infamy.
Sources:
Couper, Alastair. “Dangers, Mutinies, and the Law.” Sailors and Traders: A Maritime History of the Pacific Peoples.” University of Hawai’i Press
Gibson, Gregory. Demon of the Waters: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe. Little, Brown, and Company, 2002.
Heffernan, Thomas Farel. The Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock. Norton, 2002.
Hoyt, Edwin P. The Mutiny on the Globe. Random House, 1975.
Woodman, Richard. A Brief History of Mutiny. Carroll & Graf, 2005.
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