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The wreck of the Medusa : the most famous sea disaster of the nineteenth century
- Title
- The wreck of the Medusa : the most famous sea disaster of the nineteenth century / Jonathan Miles.
- Author
- Miles, Jonathan, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, ©2007.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- Describes the 1816 sinking of the Medusa, the flagship of a French expedition en route to reclaim a colony in Senegal from the British, which ran aground thanks to the incompetence of the ship's captain, Hugo de Chaumareys.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.
- Contents
- A severed head -- Voyages out -- The wreck -- On a scorching shore -- The raft -- Tea and pastries in Senegal -- Sex and the street -- Breaking news and stifling scandal -- The Fualdès affair and the love affair -- Trips to the morgue -- The raft of the Medusa -- The Medusa sails on -- A larger struggle -- The shipwreck and the shipwrecked.
- ISBN
- 9780871139597
- 0871139596
- LCCN
- 2006052633
- OCLC
- ocm76836265
- 76836265
- SCSB-1475705
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library