Wreck of the Medusa: Mutiny, Murder, and Survival on the High Seas by Alexander McKee

Wreck of the Medusa: Mutiny, Murder, and Survival on the High Seas

Alexander McKee

304 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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“A first-rate piece of work.”—NewsweekThis is a classic true story of negligence, suicide, murder, and cannibalism.In June 1816, the French frigate Medusa departed from Rochefort, bound for the Senegalese port of Saint-Louis. She headed a convoy o...

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