A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the "Hornet" and the 4,300-mile Voyage of Its Survivors (Cassell Military Paperba)

by Joe Jackson

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When an accident with an open oil lantern set the American clipper Hornet alight in 1866, the 31 passengers and crew were forced to abandon ship. Cast adrift in three small lifeboats, they had less than 10 days rations to share between them. They were over 1000 miles from the nearest island. Over the next six weeks they were to encounter every danger the Pacific could throw at them. They were attacked by sharks and swordfish. They endured storms, and even tornadoes. Their hunger became so intense that they resorted to eating their clothes, and later, half-mad from the...Read more
  • ISBN10 0297846183
  • ISBN13 9780297846185
  • Publish Date 12 February 2004 (first published 30 September 2003)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 August 2007
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 296
  • Language English