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The Custom of the Sea
The Custom of the Sea
Author: Neil Hanson, Neil Hanson
"The nightmarish events of the shipwreck are reported with real power."–New York Times Book Review Adrift at sea, your food and water gone, you are slowly starving to death: what would you do to survive? On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton, England, bound for Australia. Halfway through the voyage, the cr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780471399773
ISBN-10: 0471399779
Publication Date: 2/2/2001
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Wiley
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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How horrible to have had to suffer not only shipwreck & starvation, but to have to go through the ordeal of a trial & imprisonment for murder as well. Worse yet, when one of the same party that had participated in the cannibalism, testified against the other.


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