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The wreck of the Medusa : the most famous sea disaster of the nineteenth century / Jonathan Miles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miles, Jonathan, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Méduse (Ship).
- Shipwrecks--Senegal.
- Shipwrecks.
- Senegal.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2007]
- Summary:
- This spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the "Titanic" draws on published accounts and journals of survivors. Historian Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired Theodore Gericaults painting "The Raft of the Medusa."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780871139597
- 0871139596
- OCLC:
- 76836265
- Online:
- Publisher description
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