Mad for Glory: A Heart of Darkness in the War of 1812 Hardcover - 2015
by Robert Booth
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What if a naval captain went rogue with an American battleship? In October, 1812, as the 32-gun U.S. frigate Essex ventured out against the British enemy, only one man had any idea that this cruise would turn into the longest, strangest naval adventure in American history. That man was Captain David Porter, who had decided to run off with the navy's ship and its three hundred men to fight a separate Pacific war--one of privateering, pillaging, and orgies. Drawing on Porter's own writings and the accounts of eyewitnesses, the author memorably recounts the events of a dark and fatal voyage in which David Porter crosses the line from commander to cult-leader, from improbable fantasy to disastrous reality. In a tale so amazing that it reads like fiction, Porter, impelled by his own demons and by rivalry with the ghostly British buccaneer Lord Anson, took his men and boys on a seventeen-month mystery tour that did not end until he had disrupted the Chilean revolution, captured the entire English whaling fleet (manned mainly by Americans), vanished into the enchanted Galapagos, and re-emerged in Polynesia, where he made himself the conqueror-chief of the stone-age Nukuhivans. In the end, when he sought redemption with a glorious victory over a British opponent, he failed terribly and sacrificed the lives of one-third of his crew to his personal notions of heroism.
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- Title Mad for Glory: A Heart of Darkness in the War of 1812
- Author Robert Booth
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tilbury House Publishers
- Date 2015
- ISBN 9780884483571 / 0884483576
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
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