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Voyage to the First of December

Voyage to the First of December

Carlisle, Henry

Hardcover

Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 0595862063
ISBN13: 9780595862061
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Apr 19 2007
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Henry Carlisle has done a superb job. Voyage to the First of December has true distinction . A story that has long lain buried in the annals of the American Navy is the record of the only alleged mutiny-an abortive one at that-in our country's naval history . the story is told with close adherence to the records, but using the novelist's license to probe into the psychology of the actors in this drama, and to fill in the tantalizing spaces between the spare lines of fact.-The Wall Street Journal

Drawn from the facts of a notorious episode in U.S. naval history, the Somers Mutiny Affair of 1842, Carlisle has crafted a stunning novel in the tradition of great stories of the sea. The story of the conflict between eighteen-year-old Midshipman Philip Spencer, son of President Tyler's Secretary of War, and the man of necessities, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, commander of the Somers, provides an existential excursion to the center of a tragedy in our past which brilliantly illuminates the present.

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