American Sanctuary Ekirch A. RogerPaperback / softback
American Sanctuary Ekirch A. RogerPaperback / softback From "one of the most wide-ranging and imaginative historians in America today; there is no one else quite like him in the profession" (Gordon…
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American Sanctuary Ekirch A. RogerPaperback / softback
From "one of the most wide-ranging and imaginative historians in America today; there is no one else quite like him in the profession" (Gordon S. Roger Ekirch's American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy--on the British frigate HMS Hermione, four thousand miles from England's shores, off the western coast of Puerto Rico. Wood)--a dazzling and original work of history.A.
Revolution was in the air: America had won its War of Independence, the French Revolution was still unfolding, and a ferocious rebellion loomed in Ireland, with countless dissidents already arrested.Most of the Hermione mutineers had scattered throughout the North Atlantic; In the midst of the most storied epoch in British seafaring history, the mutiny struck at the very heart of military authority and at Britain's hierarchical social order.