"Captain Marooner" by Louis B. Davidson and Eddie Doherty, Introduction by William McFee, published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1952, First BC Edition ["Book Club Edition" is imprinted on the front flap of the dust jacket].

Original dust jacket [wear, edge creases], dark-green hard boards with gold lettering on spine [a little shelf wear], 5.1/2" x 8.1/2", 245 pages, very good condition.

"Thunderous sea yarn based upon one of the most violent mutinies in America's maritime history. When the Narrator a Fifteen-year-old Quaker named George Comstock boarded the whaling vessel Globe on December 15, 1822 he wrote in his dairy prophetically, Three Years God Help Me! But it was well over Three Years Before he returned to Nantucket..to stay..a man now a witness to murder, mutiny and terror of the high seas.

In the Early 1800's it was the ambition of many a red blooded New England Lads to ship aboard a whaler. These Youngsters were rugged individualists who lept to small boats-harpoons poised-when the cry "Thar she blows" screamed through the sails. Their Courage was matched only by their Loyal Women who, Like Sally, Waited and Watched for the Whalers to return.

With his older brother Sam as boat steerer, George Comstock first came to know the excitement, the danger and, suspense involved in capturing a whale. But they also discovered the brutal, sadistic nature of Captain Worth, who loved whale oil more than he did men and who reveled in flogging his crew for insubordination.

From the day they sighted shipwrecked Joe Thomas, more dead than alive, -adrift on the burning tropical sea , hard luck beset the globe, But when Captain Worth , Branded the New Comer as Jonah marooned him on a deserted Pacific island, mutiny threatened the ship. On to Valparaiso, Chile, and the Sandwich Islands they sailed with tension mounting until finally Sam Comstock, struck leaving a trail of blood half way around the world.. This Tale of Adventure and of Wanton Romance is steeped in absorbing suspense. [from dj flaps]

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