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Title: Lack of Leadership leads to Cannibalism by Nantucket whalers
Review: I found this book to be a fascinating look at the decisions people make in real life that lead to unintended consequences, or, in this case, to the actual consequences they feared the most. The author's descriptions of the Nantucket life style and insular home situations show how they men managed to hang together in even the direst of circumstances. The descriptions of whaling make this a real true life "Moby Dick" story. The author puts us in the boat with the whalers and in the end we understand the decisions each man took, whether it was: to abandon the boat for an island, to die of starvation, to draw straws, to eat their fellow humans. The line between what makes a person a human or an animal is explored in an insightful and compassionate way. Well Done, I hope I have written as well about the changes on youth caused by warfare in my own book "Rough Enough".
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