Captain ""Hell Roaring"" Mike Healy: From American Slave to Arctic Hero - New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology

In the late 1880s, many lives in northern and western maritime Alaska rested in the capable hands of Michael A. Healy, through his service to the US Revenue Cutter Service. Captain Healy's dramatic feats in the far north were so widely reported that a newspaper declared him the ""most famous man in America."" This is a biography that encompasses both sea adventure and the height of human achievement against all odds.