Download or read book Caliban s Shore The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors written by Stephen Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-07-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Source Book on the Wreck of the Grosvenor East Indiaman written by Percival Robson Kirby and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1953 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Caliban Shore written by Stephen Taylor and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Grosvenor' was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa, an astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely. But the castaways were hundreds of miles from the nearest European outpost - and utterly ignorant of their surroundings and the people among whom they found themselves. Stephen Taylor pieces together this extraordinary saga with tremendous narrative flair. Drawing upon much new research, he sifts the myths that became attached to the 'Grosvenor' from a reality that is no less gripping. Taking the reader to the heart of what is now the Wild Coast of Pondoland, The Caliban Shore reveals the misunderstandings that led to tragedy, tells the story of those who escaped and unravels the mystery of those who stayed.
Download or read book The Wreck of the Grosvenor written by William Clark Russell and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a career at sea that caused his health to deteriorate, William Clark Russell retired and turned his attention to writing. Though he published several novels before The Wreck of the Grosvenor, this action-packed account of growing tensions among a ship's crew that eventually erupt into full-blown mutiny was his first major success.
Download or read book The Wreck of the Grosvenor written by William Clark Russell and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Wreck of the Grosvenor An Account of the Mutiny of the Crew and the Loss of the Ship when Trying to Make the Bermudas A Novel written by William Clark Russell and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wreck of The Grosvenor written by Walter Russell and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neat ship Grosvenor is fully laden and crewed, and slowly traversing the English Channel, ready to leave on a trading journey to the other side of the Atlantic. Edward Royle has joined as second mate, new to the ship. As they make headway there are rumblings among the crew. Their provisions are rotten: damp, weevilled biscuit and stinking meat. The Grosvenor's firebrand captain and his tough American first mate won't stand for any interruption to the journey. They falsely indicate to the men that they will stop somewhere en route to take on new provisions. Royle is incensed on the men's behalf. The four survivors of a mid-Atlantic wreck are added to the ship's company at great risk, against the wishes of the mercenary captain, who would have left them to die. One of them, the capable Mary Robertson, quickly gains Royle's admiration.Things rapidly reach boiling point back on the Grosvenor. The mutiny is swift; Royle is forcibly enjoined to run the ship. Most of the crew are desperate to avoid the inevitable punishment - Royle gets wind of their plan to leave him, Mary and her father, the loyal boatswain and the cowardly steward to die in the deliberately holed ship once Royle has guided them near to land at Bermuda. His growing feelings for Mary further invigorate his determination to survive. The scene is set for a great trial against seemingly insurmountable odds....... W. Clark Russell's The Wreck of the 'Grosvenor' was the most successful novel of mutiny of the Victorian era. His sensitive depiction of the moods of both the sea and the skies, and the technical skill which only a seasoned seafarer could bring to the tale, make for a stirring and realistic spectacle. This moving novel became Russell's signature work.
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Download or read book The Wreck of the Grosvenor written by William Clark Russell and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wreck of the Grosvenor is a gripping adventure novel that features the life on a trading ship during its journey across the Atlantic. As the "Grosvenor" makes headway there are rumblings among the crew with each passing day. Things rapidly reach boiling point, the mutiny takes place and the only one who seems to be able to rise to the occasion is the second officer Edward Royle, who will make an attempt to save the lives of the innocent from that chaos.
Download or read book WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR AN ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY OF THE CREW AND THE LOSS OF THE SHIP WHEN TRYING TO MAKE THE BERMUDAS written by W. CLARK. RUSSELL and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
