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after breadfruit. Later, his crews rebelled on Defiance and Director. (The mutinies were part of a series that wracked the Royal Navy during 1797 .) At home, his children died or ended up with mental disabilities. To his dying day, Bligh struggled to understand how men and society could be so ungrateful for his services . And to this day, we find the man endlessly fascinating in both the failures and victories of his character. While not expending affection on Bligh, Toohey does extend to him a large measure of the respect that Bligh had so long sought during his lifetime. PETER SORENSEN Mystic, Connecticut
boat sank the Angelus, allowing rhe crew to get off in the lifeboat. No real provision had been m ade to ready rhe lifeboar for such an event. One by one the men died, until only Boudreau and one shipmate were still alive when a plane sighted them. A day later they were rescued by a desrroyer escort. Capt. Boudreau spent the rest of his life buying and sailing the schooners he loved. H e married a fine yo ung lady who bore him five children, rraveled wirh him when possible, and managed a ho rel rhey built on Marigot Bay on rhe island of Saint Lucia. The family's rravels took chem as far as Europe and rhe Medirerranean , and many well-known people sailed with them over the years. Boudreau kepr alive a uadirio n of sai l in vessels that would have been scrapped or abandoned wirhour his care. This is a book any love r of schooners and rhe sea will find hard to put down. FRANCIS E. "BIFF" BOWKER Sailors' Snug Harbor Sea Level, Nonh Carolina
The Man Who Loved Schoon ers, by R. L. Boudreau (Tiller Publishing, St. Michaels MD, 2000, l 70pp, illus, ISBN 1-88867 127-0; $20pb) Embarking on this review of the life of Captain Walter Boudreau is a special pleasure for me. I, too, was a yo ung man in love with ships of sai l. I shipped aboard a number of large coasting schooners, spent two In Search ofMoby Dick: T h e Quest for years aboard merchant steam vessels in th e White Whale, by Tim Severin (Basic World War II, and sailed Mystic Seaport's Books, New York NY, 2000 , 212pp, ISBN schooner Brilliant for 25 years. 0-465-07696-3; $24hc) Robert Louis Boudreau and his wife H ere, writer/ explorer Tim Severin is off Sarah-Jayne have done a spectacular piece to the Pacific in search ofMoby Dick The of research and writing in this remarkable quesr for rhe whire whale, Severin admits, history of his father, making it seem that is a deparrure from his career of retracing Walter Boudreau is the actual author. This and rethinking some of the world's grear old seaman found no fault in either the text myrhic and historic journeys. Best known or the manner in which Boudreau's vessels for The Brendan Voyage, in which he folwere handled. It is very easy for a vessel to lowed the parh of Sr. Brendan, some of his get into occasional trouble, and those of us o rher ins p irarions have been Jason, Ulysses, who sailed ocean waters are unlikely to and Genghis Khan. brag that we never went aground or had Inspired by a relatively modern mythdifficulty in squalls or full storms. Capt. Herman Melville's 19th-century Moby Boudreau had his share; however, he al- Dick-thewhirewhale and fighringwhales ways came out in good shape. of fiction and fact (Mocha Dick, New His long career under sail began in Zealand Tom, Tim or Tom) are rhe objecrs January 1943, when he joined the barken- of rhe author's pursuit. More rhan a physitine Angelus in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, cal and intellectual explorarion of Melville's bound for Barbados with a cargo of lum- creature, Severin's effort surfaces rales and ber. Before ever getting to sea, however, he legends inspired by the leviathans themand his fellow crew members rowed out in selves predaring nor only Moby Dick but dories to rescue the crew of an American also rhe recorded histories of numerous naval vessel stranded on a reef. Shortly after Pacific cultures. char rhe Angelus sailed for Barbados, disHe starts this voyage of inquiry where charged her cargo and loaded molasses and Melville began: Nuku Hiva, chief island of rum for Nova Scotia. the M arquesas. His research rakes him from On 19 May, rhe Angelus was several rhe Philippines to Tonga and Indonesia, hundred miles north of Bermuda when she seeking out fishermen still whaling or chose was found by a German submari ne. The U- who ha<d whaled wirhin rheir lifetimes.
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