Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors
Year: 2004 Language: english Author: Stephen Taylor Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Format: PDF Quality: OCR with errors Pages count: 235 Description: The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous cost of south-east Africa, the castaways found themselves utterly ignorant of their surroundings and the local people. Stephen Taylor pieces together the extraordinary tale of what happened next. He reveals the misunderstandings that led to the tragedy and tells the story of those who escaped, and unravels the mystery of those who stayed.
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Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors
Year: 2004
Language: english
Author: Stephen Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: PDF
Quality: OCR with errors
Pages count: 235
Description: The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous cost of south-east Africa, the castaways found themselves utterly ignorant of their surroundings and the local people. Stephen Taylor pieces together the extraordinary tale of what happened next. He reveals the misunderstandings that led to the tragedy and tells the story of those who escaped, and unravels the mystery of those who stayed.
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