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Nic Compton

Off the Deep End

A History of Madness at Sea

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Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds - and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. Or mob violence, such as the 147 survivors on the raft of the Medusa, who slaughtered each other in a two-week orgy of violence. So serious was the problem that the Royal Navy's own physician claimed sailors were seven times more likely to go mad than the rest of the population. Historic figur… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4729-4110-7
  • EAN: 9781472941107
  • Produktnummer: 23980868
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 6'792 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Nic Compton was deputy editor and then editor of Classic Boat from 1996 to 2000. Since then, he has travelled the world as a freelance writer/photographer.

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