Episode 122: The Shortest Straw (ad-free) (Patreon)

Human nature has a number of powerful, universal characteristics. Our need for community. Our love of storytelling. Our seemingly infinite capacity to adapt and thrive. But some of the most terrifying events in history find their root in one other: our will to survive.

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Further Reading  

1. “The Second in Command: Lieut. Kislingbury’s Mutilated Body Disinterred,” New York Times, 15 August 1884, https://tinyurl.com/y465pkrz.
2. “A Case of Misery at Sea,” The Inter Ocean, 7 September 1884, p4. https://tinyurl.com/y5kospfk.
3. “Rocking the Boat,” New York Times, 2 December 2007, https://tinyurl.com/y5f8eaz3.
4. “The Shame of the Nation,” New York Times, 13 August 1884, https://tinyurl.com/y2s2vjl2.
5. “The True-Life Horror That Inspired Moby-Dick,” Smithsonian Magazine, 1 March 2013, https://tinyurl.com/y67po5rb.
6. Allan C. Hutchinson, Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 1-27.
7. A. W. Brian Simpson, Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting Tragedy (The Hambledon Press, London, 1994).
8. “Cannibals,” The Bloomington Daily Pantagraph, 8 September 1884, p1. https://tinyurl.com/y4turcdm.
9. “Cannibalism on the High Seas: The Common Law’s Perfect Storm,” Duhaime.org, 20 August 2011, https://tinyurl.com/y5vvb4pu.
10. “Horrific Boon Island Wreck Has Portsmouth Link,” SeacoastNH.com, 2012, https://tinyurl.com/y2q5x6bn.
11. “Lieut. Greely Speaks,” New York Times, 14 August 1884, https://tinyurl.com/y3rymgpb.
12. Lois S. Bibbings, Binding Men: Stories About Violence and Law in Late Victorian England (Routledge, 2014).
13. “Man’s Extremity,” The Streator Free Press, 13 September 1884, p6. https://tinyurl.com/y3jzuw4v.
14. “Promotion for Arctic Survivors,” New York Times, 7 August 1884, https://tinyurl.com/yy2kwp6j.
15. “The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens,” Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (9 December 1884). https://tinyurl.com/y2nkn2y2.
16. Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Courier Corporation, 2012).