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Moon over Manhattan: Mystery and Mayhem
Published in Audio CD by New Millennium Audio (2003)
Authors: Larry King and Thomas H. Cook
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Is this all there is to know about John ¿Mad Jack¿ Percival?
Having spent time right around the corner from the West Barnstable, Massachusetts cemetery where Percival is buried and also being familiar with the USS Constitution Museum and the ship itself, I wanted to know more. This book's narrative does provide details about Percival's life and the U.S. Navy that he served in, but they seem a bit thin.

It seems that existing documentary evidence of Percival is sparse, or at least this book leads me to believe that. Percival's 1844-1846 circumnavigation of the world in the Constitution gets the longest chapter, and is only 35 pages long. Little context is given to this voyage, surely the most remarkable phase of Percival's career. According to Ellis, Percival commanded five ships (with gun ratings, which Ellis provides only infrequently): Dolphin, 12, Porpoise, 12, Erie?, Cyane, 18, and Constitution, 44.

At times this feels like nothing but the documented facts of Percival's life strung together as a report, with a focus on quelling any "controversy". West Barnstable resident Ellis certainly did a great deal of serious research, but I was hoping for something more than just a book length vindication of the charges of dishonesty David H. Long makes in his Percival biography (the only other full length treatment of the subject).

The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence 3 volume set
Published in Hardcover by Cambridge University Press (1998)
Authors: John Worthen, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, and David Ellis
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The Complete Works (Penguin Classics)
Published in Paperback by Penguin USA (Paper) (1994)
Authors: John Wilmot, Frank H. Ellis, and John Wilmot Rochester
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Medicine in Kentucky (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookself Series)
Published in Hardcover by University Press of Kentucky (1977)
Author: John H. Ellis
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On Narcotism by the Inhalation of Vapours
Published in Hardcover by Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd (31 August, 1991)
Authors: John Snow MD and Richard H. Ellis
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The Healing Bath: Using Essential Oil Therapy to Balance Body Energy
Published in Paperback by Healing Arts Pr (1997)
Author: Milli D. Austin
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Divide & Conquer: Quilt It Your Way
Published in Paperback by Possibilities (2000)
Authors: Nancy Smith and Lynda Milligan
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Published in Paperback by Inheritance Publications (1987)
Author: Leonora R. Scholte
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People of the Century: 100 Men and Women Who Shaped the Last 100 Years
Published in Audio CD by Simon & Schuster (Audio) (1999)
Authors: Dan Rather, Brian Dennehy, Olympia Dukakis, CBS News, and Walter Isaacson
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