Caliban's shore : the wreck of the Grosvenor and the strange fate of her survivors Stephen Taylor

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Stephen, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grosvenor (Ship).

Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--History--To 1795.

Shipwrecks--South Africa--Indian Coast--History--18th century.

Castaways--South Africa--Pondoland--History--18th century.

Indian Coast (South Africa)--History--18th century.

Pondoland (South Africa)--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

xvi, 297 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

1st American ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, ©2004.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

'A Man of High Character'

Lord Macartney's Displeasure

Island of Oak

A Light in the Dark

'Nothing but Confusion and Dismay'

The Caliban Shore

Pondo's People

A Fatal Dread

'Never After Together Again'

Faultlines

Habberley's Mission

'A Sacred Charge'

Caliban Transformed

The Fate of William Hosea

'The Vilest Brutish Prostitution'

African Crusoes

The Quest

'Our Fathers Are Come'

Gquma's Tribe

'When the Long Trick's Over'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267) and index.

ISBN:

0393050858

9780393050851

OCLC:

55502861