A farmer's son who has labored long to gain command of a whaling vessel, George Pollard, his first voyage as captain cursed by shipwreck, is treated as a pariah after he and his starving crew follow the "custom of the sea" and cannibalize a shipmate

The Jonah Man

Carlisle, Henry

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

During the political and social chaos of the Russian Revolution, young Marina Nevsky and her family return from Paris to their homeland, where her father, a Socialist party chief, plunges into a revolutionary fray full of both idealism and betrayal. 10,000 first printing.

The Idealists

Carlisle, Olga Andreyev

United States

Thomas Dunne Books

A chronicle based on the events that inspired Moby Dick recounts the experiences of Captain Pollard and the crew of the whaling ship Essex, who, after being cast adrift by a destructive whale, sacrifice a crewman to survive and face society's wrath. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Griffin

With the collapse of the Czar in 1918, democracy seems inevitable in Russia, and an exile family returns buoyed by hope only to encounter the rising tyranny of the Marxists. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

The Idealists: A Novel of Revolutionary Russia

Contemporary

St. Martin's: Griffin

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

KNOPF

A Custom of the Sea (The Jonah Man)

Victor Gollancz

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 JournalDrawn 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.On the first of December in 1842, Philip Spencer was hanged at sea along with two sailors, the three having been charged with leading a conspiracy to capture their ship, the brig of war Somers. Voyage to the First of December re-creates this controversial incident through the journal of the ship's surgeon. Was there a real mutiny which nothing less than execution could check-or had the officers acted in panic, the commander for perhaps darker reasons? What happened at sea that the court-martial chose to overlook?Voyage to the First of December effortlessly unites the taste of the sea with the relentless drama of men sitting in judgment of one another; a conflict between authority and rebellion, and ultimately one man's quest for meaning.

Voyage to the First of December

Genre Fiction

iUniverse

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