A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile Voyage of Its Survivors
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 074323037X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Along with the stories of the Bounty and the whaleship Essex, the Hornet disaster was once one of the country's most infamous naval disasters. The American clipper ship Hornet left her homeport of New York City on January 15, 1866, and embarked on what was considered a routine voyage to San Francisco around Cape Horn. Over the years, a handful of famous shipwrecks have become symbols of something greater, their accounts a floating opera of sudden disaster, wasted life, and privations endured by survivors. Their only salvation was to land on the "American group," a mythical set of islands said to exist somewhere in the Pacific. Soon the social divisions in the boat erupted into class war. But the islands never materialized, and with no hope left, the men planned the details of cannibalism. The Hornet's complement -- twenty-nine officers and crew, and two aristocratic passengers -- mirrored all the prejudices and nuances of Industrial Age America. In the tradition of Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling In the Heart of the Sea, Joe Jackson's A Furnace Afloat tells of the American clipper ship Hor
Hornet's Nest This is not just another "men in a lifeboat" book. Joe Jackson tells that part of the story well - the thirst, the hunger, battling the fierce sun and raging storms (and a "demonic" waterspout which seems to chase the lifeboats!), etc. - but the author has bigger fish to fry. Since this was a well-publicized story, he has journals and newspaper reports to draw upon and he can actually, with accuracy, get into the dynamics of what occurred on the lifeboats as time went by and the men started to become desperate: the search for scapegoats, the distrust of foreigners, the . Matthew McGinley (real name™) said Gripping, Compelling, Not to Be Missed!. "A Furnace Afloat" written by five-time pulitzer prize nominee Joe Jackson details the "harrowing Gripping, Compelling, Not to Be Missed! Matthew McGinley (real name™) "A Furnace Afloat" written by five-time pulitzer prize nominee Joe Jackson details the "harrowing 4,300-mile voyage of its survivors." Skillfully and intelligently woven into the fabric of Jackson's writing are anecdotes of modern science, physiology and psychology, tying threads between the tragic and testing events of the survivors of the "Hornet" and events of today. For this reason, I recommend "A Furnace Afloat" to all college and university students as mandatory reading, given credit as humanities and social science. This is one of the best writing styles I've eve. ,Gripping, Compelling, Not to Be Missed! "A Furnace Afloat" written by five-time pulitzer prize nominee Joe Jackson details the "harrowing Gripping, Compelling, Not to Be Missed! Matthew McGinley (real name™) "A Furnace Afloat" written by five-time pulitzer prize nominee Joe Jackson details the "harrowing 4,300-mile voyage of its survivors." Skillfully and intelligently woven into the fabric of Jackson's writing are anecdotes of modern science, physiology and psychology, tying threads between the tragic and testing events of the survivors of the "Hornet" and events of today. For this reason, I recommend "A Furnace Afloat" to all college and university students as mandatory reading, given credit as humanities and social science. This is one of the best writing styles I've eve. ,300-mile voyage of its survivors." Skillfully and intelligently woven into the fabric of Jackson's writing are anecdotes of modern science, physiology and psychology, tying threads between the tragic and testing events of the survivors of the "Hornet" and events of today. For this reason, I recommend "A Furnace Afloat" to all college and university students as mandatory reading, given credit as humanities and social science. This is one of the best writing styles I've eve. 00-mile voyage of its survivors." Skillfully and intelligently woven into the fabric of Jackson's writing are anecdotes of modern science, physiology and psychology, tying threads between the tragic and testing events of the survivors of the "Hornet" and events of today. For this reason, I recommend "A Furnace Afloat" to all college and university students as mandatory reading, given credit as humanities and social science. This is one of the best writing styles I've eve. Tough going This book by Joe Jackson is one of those kinds of works difficult to put down as the reader is caught up in the pain of an awful moment. I don't feel it necessary in a review to rehearse the entire episode but to simply say that what the men trying to survive from the burning and sinking of the Hornet had to do should never be anyone's lot in life. I've read other survival literature and Jackson's account is equal to any I've come across in the past few years. It is hard to imagine the thoughts going through the minds of these men as they struggled with the day to day s
True crime veteran Jackson (Leavenworth Train, etc.) superbly retells the tale, drawing on impressive primary sources. . Thirty-one survivors boarded three tiny lifeboats and began the 4,300-mile voyage to the Hawaiian Islands. From Publishers Weekly On May 3, 1866, the clipper ship Hornet was consumed by fire and sank in the middle of the South Pacific. In addition to the journals left by the captain and two passengers, Jackson incorporates interviews with the survivors conducted by a young reporter named Mark Twain, who happened to be in Hawaii at the time. These events are dramatic enough: a thief steals bread-and murder is nearly the result; a seaman sacrifices a water ration to a sick man he fully expects to eat the next day; and mutineers huddle in the stern to plot. (Twain's articles on the Hornet were picked up by newspapers worldwide and made his reputation, despite a mistaken byline in Harper's of "Mark Swain.") These sources allow Jackson to quo