{"product_id":"voyage-to-the-first-of-december-paperback","title":"Voyage to the First of December - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Carlisle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Henry Carlisle has done a superb job. \u003ci\u003eVoyage to the First of December\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from the facts of a notorious episode in U.S. naval history, the \u003ci\u003eSomers\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSomers\u003c\/i\u003e, provides an existential excursion to the center of a tragedy in our past which brilliantly illuminates the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn 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 \u003ci\u003eSomers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eVoyage to the First of December\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoyage to the First of December\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53022187094127,"sku":"9780595409396","price":22.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0717\/4966\/4879\/files\/lp9vSHvDX_9780595409396.webp?v=1777326876","url":"https:\/\/finderbooks.com\/products\/voyage-to-the-first-of-december-paperback","provider":"Finder Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}