Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors by Stephen Taylor

Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors

Stephen Taylor

288 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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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 r...

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