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

The Wreck of the Medusa

The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century

2007 • 310 pages

This spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the "Titanic" draws on published accounts and journals of survivors. Historian Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired Theodore Gericaults painting "The Raft of the Medusa."


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