My gratitude for the help and the friendship of “Bata Rich” McAuliff, S.J.; Chugi, Beverly, Ben, and Emi Chutaro; Alfred Capelle, Republic of the Marshall Islands ambassador to the United Nations; and Fran Hezel, S.J., head of the Micronesian Seminar, is immense. Knowing them is my main unanticipated reward for undertaking the writing of the book. Other ri-Majel who put me in their debt are Dadashi Lometo, senator from Mili Atoll; Ramsey Reimers; Jessica Reimers; Peter Fuchs; Alson Kelen, authority on Marshallese outrigger canoes; Erwin Bollong, iroojlaplap of Mili Atoll; and Kuniga Lometo Bollong, for her hospitality on Mili.
In Hawaii I enjoyed the help of Robert Kiste, Byron Bender, Jack Tobin, and Leonard Mason and of some of the University of Hawaii’s classically generous librarians: Karen Peacock, Nancy Morris, Lynette Furuhashi, and Ross Togashi. I am particularly grateful to Marilyn Reppun of that researcher’s gem, the Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society Library. And my thanks go to Charlene Avallone and Chip Hughes and to the staffs of the State Archives of Hawaii and the Bishop Museum.
For help on Nantucket I am especially grateful to Elizabeth Oldham and Betsy Lowenstein and to Nathaniel Philbrick, who gave me, at the Egan Institute, a first opportunity to discuss the Globe publicly and has been supportive in many ways. My thanks go to Frank Milligan, Niles Parker, and Ralph Marie Henke, all of the Nantucket Historical Association, and to Dwight and Mimi Beman, Helen Winslow Chase, and Robert Leach. At the Martha’s Vineyard Historical Society I thank Matthew Stackpole, Jill Bouck, Catherine Mayhew, and Peter Van Tassel, and in Maine, Renny Stackpole, of the Penobscot Marine Museum.
The authoritative advice of Milton Viederman, M.D., Douglas Price, M.D., Scott Norton, M.D., and Marjorie Scandizzo, M.D., was of great value to the treatment of medical and psychological questions. The close and solid study of Samuel Comstock’s character that Dr. Viederman shared with me defined perceptively the limits of what is psychologically knowable about the mutineer.
At the National Archives, Washington and Waltham, I thank Jack Saunders, Rebecca Livingston, John Vandereedt, and Stanley Tozeski.
Many others to whom I am greatly indebted are, in alphabetical order: Janet Baldwin, Explorers’ Club; Lester Baltimore; Robert R. Craven; Lee Descoteaux; Mary K. Bercaw Edwards; James H. Ellis; Christopher Ferguson; Tina Furtado, New Bedford Free Public Library; Rebecca Garnett; Jill Gidmark; Kate Giordano, Portsmouth, N.H., Public Library; Linda Guerreiro; Martin Haas; Warwick Hirst, Curator of Manuscripts, State Library of New South Wales; Alice Hudson, New York Public Library Map Division; Dean King; Kate Lennon, USS Constitution Museum; Robert Madison; Linda Maloney; Neil Miller; Gale Munro, Naval Historical Center; Trudi Neubauer and the staff of Adelphi University Library’s Inter-library Loan Division; Patricia O’Donnell, Swarthmore Friends Historical Library; Jean Powers, Massachusetts Historical Society; Laura Reitano; Gloria Roberson; Robert Scheina, Industrial College of the Armed Forces; Sandy Shryock, Maine Historical Society; Brian Sieling, Smithsonian Institution; Darlene Waller, University of Connecticut Library.
I am very grateful to Alfred Capelle, Fran Hezel, S.J., Nathaniel Philbrick, Sebastian Junger, Lester Baltimore, Martin Haas, and Milton Viederman, M.D., who read the mansucript.
Three people could not have done more than they did to help my idea of the Globe turn into a book about the Globe: my agent, Chris Calhoun; my editor, Starling Lawrence; and his assistant, Morgen Van Vorst. I am deeply grateful to them and am grateful as well to Bill Swainson and Pascal Cariss of Bloomsbury Publishing for their attention to and advice on the book’s British edition.
And unique thanks to two golden links in the chain from which this book hangs, Elizabeth Fitton and Mary Beth Keane.