Medusa: The Shipwreck, The Scandal, The Masterpiece by Jonathan Miles

Medusa: The Shipwreck, The Scandal, The Masterpiece

Jonathan Miles

352 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction art history dark reflective slow-paced
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In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail. She never arrived at her destination. Commanded by an incompetent Captain, she ran aground off the desolate West African coast...

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