5 best-selling nonfiction books like Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock by Thomas Farel Heffernan

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Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

By: Thomas Farel Heffernan

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bloody mutiny on a whaling journey, followed by an incredible tale of survival on land and sea. S…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock by Thomas Farel Heffernan , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple n… read more

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"الناس في الظلام مختلفين كثيرا"

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"It's what's in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy."

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

"إن الجرائم الصغيرة تؤدي إلى الجرائم الكبيرة .. أليس كذلك ؟"

-Agatha Christie, A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple, #4)

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2. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.16

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

"With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-w… read more

Similar categories in Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex book and Thomas Farel Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

  • survival
  • history
  • adventure
  • maritime
  • nonfiction
"There was a saying on the island: "[I]t is a pity to spoil a good mate by making him a master."

-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

"Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind."

-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

"Many of the so-called American characteristics,’ a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, ‘—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the exp…"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

"How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent cont…"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

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3. A Voyage for Madmen

By: Peter Nichols

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate … read more

Similar categories in Peter Nichols's A Voyage for Madmen book and Thomas Farel Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

  • survival
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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4. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Alfred Lansing

4.44

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more

Similar categories in Alfred Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage book and Thomas Farel Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

  • survival
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"

-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

5. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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6. Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

By: James R. Doty

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Extraordinary things happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in… read more

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7. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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Cover of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) by L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow

8. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

By: L. Frank Baum , W.W. Denslow

4.00

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to … read more

Similar categories in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) book and Thomas Farel Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

  • adventure
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"El verdadero valor reside en enfrentarse al peligro aun cuando uno está asustado."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

"She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil."

-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)

Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Thomas Farel Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

  • survival
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
Cover of Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock by Thomas Farel Heffernan

10. Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

By: Thomas Farel Heffernan

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bloody mutiny on a whaling journey, followed by an incredible tale of survival on land and sea. S… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Farel Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock book and Thomas Farel Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock

  • survival
  • history
  • adventure
  • maritime
  • nonfiction

5 must-read history books like Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock by Thomas Farel Heffernan

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Nathaniel Philbrick

4.16

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A Voyage for Madmen

Peter Nichols

3.61

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

4.44

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David Grann

4.19

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

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James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

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Pinocchio

John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

L.M. Montgomery

4.31

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