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The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century
The Wreck of the Medusa The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Jonathan Miles
The Wreck of the Medusa is a spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic, a tragedy that riled a nation and inspired Théodore Géricault’s magnificent painting The Raft of the Medusa. In June 1816, the flagship of a French expedition to repossess a colony in Senegal from the British set s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780871139597
ISBN-10: 0871139596
Publication Date: 10/10/2007
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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