Druett, Joan. In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2003, 292 pp. Melville's Captain Ahab may have been based on Howes Norris of Sharon; mutiny, May 1841, captain murdered.
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