Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors
Author: Stephen Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005-07-17
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0393327078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts 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.