2007, ISBN: 0871139596

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[EAN: 9780871139597], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York], COLLECTIBLE, Jacket, xv, 309 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Tight, clean c… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780871139597], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York], COLLECTIBLE, Jacket, xv, 309 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Historian Jonathan Miles delivers a spellbinding account of the ill-fated voyage of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic, the events that inspired Theodore Gericault'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 sail. She never arrived at her destination. When the incompetent captain ran the ship aground on a treacherous sand bar, the privileged few claimed the lifeboats and one hundred and forty six men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft, abandoned and sent adrift. Without a compass or many provisions, hit by a vicious storm the first night and exposed to sweltering heat during the following days, the group set upon each other: mayhem, mutiny, and murder ensued. Meanwhile, those in the boats who made it to shore, undertook a dangerous two hundred mile slog through the desert. Miles's astonishing story, full of action, adventure, catastrophe, and art literally takes the reader's breath away." - Publisher. Size: 8vo, Books<

2007, ISBN: 9780871139597

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. xv, 309 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cove… Mehr…

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. xv, 309 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Historian Jonathan Miles delivers a spellbinding account of the ill-fated voyage of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic, the events that inspired Theodore Gericault'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 sail. She never arrived at her destination. When the incompetent captain ran the ship aground on a treacherous sand bar, the privileged few claimed the lifeboats and one hundred and forty six men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft, abandoned and sent adrift. Without a compass or many provisions, hit by a vicious storm the first night and exposed to sweltering heat during the following days, the group set upon each other: mayhem, mutiny, and murder ensued. Meanwhile, those in the boats who made it to shore, undertook a dangerous two hundred mile slog through the desert. Miles's astonishing story, full of action, adventure, catastrophe, and art literally takes the reader's breath away." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007, 5<

2007, ISBN: 0871139596

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780871139597], Near Fine, [PU: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York], MUTINY, SHIPWRECK, CANNIBALISM, STARVATION, STORM, OCEAN, ILLUSTRATED, MURDER, DEATH, BOURBON, MONARCHY, REVOLUTIO… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780871139597], Near Fine, [PU: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York], MUTINY, SHIPWRECK, CANNIBALISM, STARVATION, STORM, OCEAN, ILLUSTRATED, MURDER, DEATH, BOURBON, MONARCHY, REVOLUTION, EMBLEM, Jacket, 8vo, cloth and boards, illustrated with several period images of the raft and endangered, illustrated with 16pp. of glossy period images, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with famous and enormous painting of shipwrecked survivors on a raft by Géricault in 1819, dark green endpapers, Index, 309 pages. After the French frigate "Medusa" ran aground and sank of the shore of Senegal in Africa, a number of the survivors of the 400 originally aboard were gathered on a flimsy raft. It was then cut adrift by supposed lifeboat rescuers from the ship The rugged men on the raft were often drunken soldiers and sailors; plus there was one desperate woman. On their second night adrift, the men went on a killing spree which led to murder, suicide, famine, and even cannibalism. Tight, clean copy in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Very slight edgewear to the head and foot of the dj's spine. Lengthy gift inscription on front free endpaper. No internal markings or remaindering., Books<

2007, ISBN: 0871139596

[EAN: 9780871139597], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Atlantic Monthly Press], SHIPWRECK, HISTORY, Uncorrected proof. An account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic, a tragedy … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780871139597], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Atlantic Monthly Press], SHIPWRECK, HISTORY, Uncorrected proof. An 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 sail. Her incompetent captain Hugo de Chaumareys, ignoring telltale signs of shallow waters, plowed the ship into a treacherous sandbar. A privileged few claimed the lifeboats while 146 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft and set adrif, Books<