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Wreck of the Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft
Wreck of the Medusa The Tragic Story of the Death Raft
Author: Alexander McKee
"Wreck of the Medusa" is the same book, only retitled, as one called "Death Raft."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 fifte...  more » were alive.

"If Alive chilled your soul, read this...One of the strangest and mosthorrifying true stories ever told."-John Fowles

"One of the grisliest of sea epics...a first-rate piece of work."-Newsweek

"Compelling."-Washington Post

"Superior non-fiction." -Wall Street Journal

"Impossible to put down."-Kirkus Reviews

"Weird and tragic...a spellbinding drama that made its mark on history."-Publishers Weekly

"The most horrible sea tragedy of the century."-Business Week

"If anything makes that soccer team's ordeal in the Andes seem tame, this story does."-Chicago Daily News
ISBN-13: 9780451200440
ISBN-10: 0451200446
Publication Date: 8/1/2000
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Signet Book
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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