Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors
In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn that one of their finest ships, the 741-ton Grosvenor, had been lost on the wild and unexplored coast of southeast Africa. Astonishingly, most of those on board reached the shore safely-91 members of the crew and 34 wealthy, high-born passengers, including women and children. They were hundreds of miles from the nearest European outpost-and they were not alone. They surveyed one another with mutual incomprehension: on the one hand the dishevelled castaways; on the other, black warriors with high conical hairstyles, daubed with red mud... Drawing upon unpublis…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-32707-6
- EAN: 9780393327076
- Produktnummer: 1502040
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.2 cm 322 g
- Gewicht: 322
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Stephen Taylor, a former journalist working at The Times in London, is the author of Storm and Conquest and Commander. He lives in Windsor, England.
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