The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century

by Jonathan Miles

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The Wreck of the Medusa is Jonathan Miles's spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired Theodore Gericault's magnificent painting The Raft of the Medusa.

In July of 1816, the French frigate Medusa, bound for the Senegalese port colony of Saint Louis under the command of an incompetent royalist captain, hit a famously treacherous reef. In the chaos that ensued, the commander and a privileged few claimed the lifeboats. The rest were herded onto a makeshift raft...

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  • ISBN10 0871139596
  • ISBN13 9780871139597
  • Publish Date 10 October 2007
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 February 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Language English