Author: Stephen Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Recounts the 1782 shipwreck of one of the East India Company's most prestigious ships, describing how ninety-one crew members and thirty-four wealthy passengers found themselves stranded on the unexplored coast of southeast Africa.
Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors
Author: Stephen Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Recounts the 1782 shipwreck of one of the East India Company's most prestigious ships, describing how ninety-one crew members and thirty-four wealthy passengers found themselves stranded on the unexplored coast of southeast Africa.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Recounts the 1782 shipwreck of one of the East India Company's most prestigious ships, describing how ninety-one crew members and thirty-four wealthy passengers found themselves stranded on the unexplored coast of southeast Africa.
A Source Book on the Wreck of the Grosvenor East Indiaman
Author: Percival Robson Kirby
Publisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN:
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN:
Category : Shipwrecks
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Wreck of the Grosvenor, and Other South African Poems
Author: William Charles Scully
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grosvenor (Ship)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grosvenor (Ship)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Caliban Shore
Author: Stephen Taylor
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571295673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The 'Grosvenor' was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa, an astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely. But the castaways were hundreds of miles from the nearest European outpost - and utterly ignorant of their surroundings and the people among whom they found themselves. Stephen Taylor pieces together this extraordinary saga with tremendous narrative flair. Drawing upon much new research, he sifts the myths that became attached to the 'Grosvenor' from a reality that is no less gripping. Taking the reader to the heart of what is now the Wild Coast of Pondoland, The Caliban Shore reveals the misunderstandings that led to tragedy, tells the story of those who escaped and unravels the mystery of those who stayed.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571295673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The 'Grosvenor' was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa, an astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely. But the castaways were hundreds of miles from the nearest European outpost - and utterly ignorant of their surroundings and the people among whom they found themselves. Stephen Taylor pieces together this extraordinary saga with tremendous narrative flair. Drawing upon much new research, he sifts the myths that became attached to the 'Grosvenor' from a reality that is no less gripping. Taking the reader to the heart of what is now the Wild Coast of Pondoland, The Caliban Shore reveals the misunderstandings that led to tragedy, tells the story of those who escaped and unravels the mystery of those who stayed.
The Wreck of the "Grosvenor"
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Frozen Pirate
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Sunburnt Queen
Author: Hazel Crampton
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The true story of a child shipwrecked in Africa.
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The true story of a child shipwrecked in Africa.
Shipwrecks and Salvage in South Africa
Author: Malcolm Turner
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN: 9780869773871
Category : Salvage
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume brings together widely-scattered information concerning the nearly 1000 shipwrecks that have occurred on the coast of South Africa, from the earliest recorded Portuguese wreck, that of a vessel whose name is lost to us, in 1505, to that of the Daeyang family in 1986. Illustrated with sketches, maps, drawings, and contemporary and historical photographs, the book covers various aspects of shipwrecks and salvage in South Africa which a main text and three appendixes, which list in alphabetical, chronological and geographical order all the shipwrecks that have occurred on the South African coast.
Publisher: Struik Publishers
ISBN: 9780869773871
Category : Salvage
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume brings together widely-scattered information concerning the nearly 1000 shipwrecks that have occurred on the coast of South Africa, from the earliest recorded Portuguese wreck, that of a vessel whose name is lost to us, in 1505, to that of the Daeyang family in 1986. Illustrated with sketches, maps, drawings, and contemporary and historical photographs, the book covers various aspects of shipwrecks and salvage in South Africa which a main text and three appendixes, which list in alphabetical, chronological and geographical order all the shipwrecks that have occurred on the South African coast.
Abandoned
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Tom Cringle's Log
Author: Michael Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description