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Mad for Glory: A Heart of Darkness in the War of 1812

✍ Scribed by Booth, Robert David

Book ID
109772790
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Tongue
English
Weight
4 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780884483571

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✦ Synopsis

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 warβ€”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...

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