Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial
Year: 2025 Language: English Author: Adam Cohen Genre: Historical Publisher: Authors Equity Edition: 1st (November 18, 2025) ISBN: 9798893310597 Format: EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 384 Description: A Barnes & Noble Best History Book of 2025. Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. “A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many?" On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks, they faced an unthinkable choice: starve to death or resort to cannibalism. Their decision to sacrifice the youngest 17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker ignited a firestorm of controversy upon their rescue. Instead of being hailed as heroes and survivors, Dudley and his crew found themselves at the center of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens, a landmark murder trial that would establish the legal precedent that necessity cannot justify murder a principle that continues to shape Anglo-American law today. Perfect for readers of David Grann's The Wager and Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, this pulse-pounding true story has become a real-life example of one of life's greatest moral dilemmas. “Thoroughly researched and impeccably argued” (Martel). Rich with narrative detail and real-life courtroom twists, “brilliant and profound,” "Captain's Dinner" strikes at the heart of a question that haunts us all:When does survival justify murder?
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Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial
Language: English
Author: Adam Cohen
Genre: Historical
Publisher: Authors Equity
Edition: 1st (November 18, 2025)
ISBN: 9798893310597
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 384
Description: A Barnes & Noble Best History Book of 2025.
Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. “A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many?"
On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks, they faced an unthinkable choice: starve to death or resort to cannibalism.
Their decision to sacrifice the youngest 17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker ignited a firestorm of controversy upon their rescue. Instead of being hailed as heroes and survivors, Dudley and his crew found themselves at the center of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens, a landmark murder trial that would establish the legal precedent that necessity cannot justify murder a principle that continues to shape Anglo-American law today.
Perfect for readers of David Grann's The Wager and Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, this pulse-pounding true story has become a real-life example of one of life's greatest moral dilemmas. “Thoroughly researched and impeccably argued” (Martel). Rich with narrative detail and real-life courtroom twists, “brilliant and profound,”
"Captain's Dinner" strikes at the heart of a question that haunts us all: When does survival justify murder?
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