Wreck of the Medusa - The Tragic Story of the Death Raft
Year: 2000 Language: english Author: McKee А. Genre: History Publisher: Signet Edition: 1st ISBN: 0451200446 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 316 Description: In horrifying detail, this book tells the gruesome true story of the shipwreck of the French frigate "Medusa" off the coast of Senegal in 1816. Forced to abandon ship, 150 men and women embarked on an overloaded makeshift raft. After 12 days of riots, mutiny, murder, and cannibalism, only 15 survived. Back in print after 20 years, this book was originally published as "Death Raft". In July 1816, a year after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a French ship bound for the colony of Senegal foundered off the West African coast. Aboard were some 400 men, women, and children, some aristocrats, some Republicans, and all at the mercy of an incompetent captain who, a tribunal later found, had alienated his battle-tested officers and favored a shockingly incompetent and untried navigator. That captain, writes Alexander McKee in this forceful work of historical reconstruction, did not wait to see the results of his incompetence; he abandoned his crew and set off on a longboat for the Senegalese shore. Other officers and crewmen left on the remaining lifeboats, taking most of the ship's provisions and leaving more than 150 passengers to brave the open sea on a raft. Within a few days, most of those castaways had been burned to death by the sun, providing food for the survivors. When rescuers arrived, they found only "fifteen men, almost naked, faces and bodies blotched and disfigured by the scorching sun"--a sight that would soon be reported to a horrified world.
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Wreck of the Medusa - The Tragic Story of the Death Raft
Year: 2000
Language: english
Author: McKee А.
Genre: History
Publisher: Signet
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0451200446
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 316
Description: In horrifying detail, this book tells the gruesome true story of the shipwreck of the French frigate "Medusa" off the coast of Senegal in 1816. Forced to abandon ship, 150 men and women embarked on an overloaded makeshift raft. After 12 days of riots, mutiny, murder, and cannibalism, only 15 survived. Back in print after 20 years, this book was originally published as "Death Raft".
In July 1816, a year after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a French ship bound for the colony of Senegal foundered off the West African coast. Aboard were some 400 men, women, and children, some aristocrats, some Republicans, and all at the mercy of an incompetent captain who, a tribunal later found, had alienated his battle-tested officers and favored a shockingly incompetent and untried navigator.
That captain, writes Alexander McKee in this forceful work of historical reconstruction, did not wait to see the results of his incompetence; he abandoned his crew and set off on a longboat for the Senegalese shore. Other officers and crewmen left on the remaining lifeboats, taking most of the ship's provisions and leaving more than 150 passengers to brave the open sea on a raft. Within a few days, most of those castaways had been burned to death by the sun, providing food for the survivors. When rescuers arrived, they found only "fifteen men, almost naked, faces and bodies blotched and disfigured by the scorching sun"--a sight that would soon be reported to a horrified world.
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