Download or read book The Wreck of the Medusa written by Jonathan Miles and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling . . . captivating” account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic—a tragedy that inspired an unforgettable masterpiece of Western art (The Boston Globe). In June 1816, the Medusa set sail. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate West African coast. During the chaotic evacuation a privileged few claimed the lifeboats, while 147 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft that was soon cut loose by the boats that had pledged to tow it to safety. Those on the boats made it ashore and undertook a two-hundred-mile trek through the sweltering Sahara, but conditions were far worse on the drifting raft. Crazed, parched, and starving, the diminishing band fell into mayhem. When rescue arrived thirteen days later, only fifteen were alive. Among the handful of survivors were two men whose bestselling account of the maritime disaster scandalized Europe and inspired promising artist Théodore Géricault, who threw himself into a study of the Medusa tragedy, turning it into a vast canvas in his painting, The Raft of the Medusa. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, The Wreck of the Medusa is “a captivating gem about art’s relation to history” (Booklist) and ultimately “a thrilling read” (The Guardian).
Download or read book Gericault written by LORENZ E. A. EITNER and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wreck of the Medusa written by Alexander McKee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1816, a fleet of ships left France to accept the British hand-over of the port of Saint-Louis in Senegal. Among them was the frigate Medusa. A month after it set sail, she shank miles off of Africa's west coast, leaving the passengers to flee on lifeboats and a raft cobbled together from parts of the sinking ship. After a failed attempt by those in the lifeboats to tow the raft, it—and the more than 150 people aboard—were abandoned. This is the horrific tale, filled with suicide, murder, and cannibalism, of those left behind.
Download or read book Death Raft written by Alexander McKee and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on similar disasters.
Download or read book Wreck of the Medusa written by Alexander McKee and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In horrifying detail, this book tells the gruesome true story of the shipwreck of the French frigate "Medusa" off the coast of Senegal in 1816. Forced to abandon ship, 150 men and women embarked on an overloaded makeshift raft. After 12 days of riots, mutiny, murder, and cannibalism, only 15 survived. Back in print after 20 years, this book was originally published as "Death Raft".
Download or read book Martin Kippenberger written by Elfie Semotan and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 written by Jean Baptiste Henry Savigny and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 tells a story of the shipwreck of the Medusa frigate, its aftermath, and the tales of its survivors. Later in the book the author, Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny, describes the area where the shipwreck took place as well as his thoughts about colonization and about the practice of slavery.
Download or read book Raft of the Medusa written by Joseph Pintauro and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In an opening scene, a man dies an agonizing death from AIDS. The play itself is an explosive AIDS support group session, where the members discover the disease they share can divide as effectively as it conquers. The members of the grou
Download or read book The Raft of the Medusa written by Albert Alhadeff and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Raft of the Medusa written by Robert M. Hertzberg and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Raft of the Medusa is a novel based on the life of Théodore Géricault, the great 19th Century French Romantic painter, and on the historical events surrounding one of the most scandalous disasters in French naval history. In particular, the book focuses on Géricault's creation of his celebrated masterpiece, The Raft of the Medusa, and on his passionate and tragic love affair with his aunt. As author Robert M. Hertzberg states in a note that precedes the main text, his book is a novel, not history or biography, but he has made extensive use of historical and biographical sources. He has remained faithful to the facts so far as they are known but has taken the novelist's liberty to interpret those facts, to provide motives, and to imagine states of mind; but never, in matters of substance, has he strayed from the realm of possibility, nor, to his knowledge, invented anything that might not plausibly have been the case. After a Prologue that sets the scene of Géricault's Paris studio where The Raft of the Medusa is being painted, the reader is transported to the present-day Louvre gallery where the picture is seen today. The painting is described, its place in the course of France's art is defined, and its changing impact on critics and the public is noted. The reader is introduced to the sculptor who created Géricault's tomb in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris; he has received an unexpected bequest from one Georges-Hippolyte, whom he recalls meeting years before and who is revealed as the son, born in virtual secrecy to Géricault and the wife of his brother. Thus we learn of the central and bitter secret of a turbulent life lived in a turbulent time. Born in Rouen in 1791 to a wealthy couple, young Théodore grows up as a sensitive, introspective, and restless country-loving boy, most at home on the peaceful family estate, carefully shielded from the rigors and violence of life in France that have accompanied the replacement of the royal House of Bourbon by Revolution and creation of the First Republic. Moving to Paris at the age of five, Géricault is now introduced to more formal education, as well as to the joys of horseback riding, which will play a vital part in his life and work. His teenage years are filled with more than school and riding he discovers a talent for drawing, leading to painting, which becomes a dedication. Admitted to the studios of conservative Classical painters, he revels in the company of fellow-students and exploits his rebellious tendencies to push himself beyond the practices of traditional academic expression. He advances beyond his teachers, the .painters Carle Vernet and Pierre Guérin, and studies on his own in the Musée Napoleon. By 1812, when Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia precipitates the invasion of France by British and Prussian allies, Géricault enlists in the Gray Musketeers in a futile gesture of loyalty to Napoleon's ill-fated Bourbon successor, Louis XVIII. However, Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo in 1815 leaves Géricault with little to occupy him except his increasing concentration on his painting. His style is moving ever faster away from the Classical mode still favored by most of his contemporaries. Dramatic paintings, military and equine portraits, battle scenes, somber landscapes, notebook after notebook of vivid, often roughly sketched drawings all flow from his ever-more Romantic hand. He is becoming noticed, with both esteem and alarm. Meanwhile, he has fallen deeply in love with his aunt, the young wife of his aging uncle. The situation is agonizing; he is torn apart. Travel to Italy becomes a way of avoiding the passion and frustration within him. About this time, in July 1816, a shipwreck has occurred, for awhile little noted: a French frigate, the "Medusa," sailing from Southern France to Senegal in West Africa has run aground just off the coast of Africa and has been a
Download or read book Medusa written by J. B. Henry Savigny and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two accounts of terrible shipwreck and the struggle for survival The wreck of the Medusa is one of the most famous and infamous shipwrecks from the great age of sailing ships. The Medusa was a French frigate which struck the Bank of Arguin, off the coast of Senegal in 1816 shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The vessel had to be abandoned and this was undertaken with such complete incompetence by the officers and crew that it resulted in the loss of over 150 lives in such appalling circumstances that it scandalised the general public of Europe and became an incurable embarrassment for the French government of the day. The event was even immortalised by a great artist of the period, and Gericault's 'Raft of the Medusa' endures to ensure it still remains widely known in all its horror two centuries later. The outrage of the Medusa gained particular notoriety because several of the survivors wrote harrowing accounts of their experiences of the events that took place. Two of these first hand narratives are included in this Leonaur edition making it a fascinating book for all those with an interest in sailing ships, voyages of times past and the perils of the sea.
Download or read book Wreck written by Tom de Freston and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artist's intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of art, and explores the value of facing, and depicting, the darkest of horrors.
Download or read book Keeping an Eye Open written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art—from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending. “An engaging and empathetic volume.” —The New York Times Book Review As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting … But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.” This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. In his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Barnes had a chapter on Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cézanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin. The seventeen essays gathered here help trace the arc from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism; they are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read.
Download or read book Medusa written by Hammond Innes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HMS Medusa is an obsolete frigate with an ill-assorted crew and an insecure captain. Why has she been dispatched under secret orders to be a sitting duck in one of the most vital ports of the Mediterranean? Drawn into a close involvement with the Medusa's captain, Gareth Lloyd Jones, ex-adventurer Mike Steele begins a dangerous quest for answers. As past and present combine in a series of violent events, Steele finds himself at the centre of an international crisis to which only Lloyd Jones and the Medusa hold the key.
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Storms Shipwrecks and Sea Disasters written by Richard Russell Lawrence and published by Constable. This book was released on 2004 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 40 first-hand accounts of peril on the high seas, from the wreck of the Medusa to the perfect storm, from Francis Chichester's account of superhuman tenacity battling hostile seas in Gipsy Moth while rounding Cape Horn to the tale of the Marie Celeste.
Download or read book Skeletons on the Zahara written by Dean King and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.
Download or read book Wreck of the Medusa written by Alexander McKee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the strangest and most horrifying stories ever told.”—John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman “First rate.”—Newsweek In July, 1816, a French frigate ran aground on a sandbar forty miles off the coast of Africa. Forced to abandon ship, 150 men and women embarked on an overloaded makeshift raft. After twelve days of riots, mutiny, murder, and, ultimately, cannibalism, only fifteen were alive.
