Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors by Stephen Taylor

Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors

Stephen Taylor

320 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

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What became of the castaways was stranger than fiction...and more than decent Englishmen could bear. In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn that one of their finest ships, the 741-ton Grosvenor, had be...

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