Marked for Misfortune: An Epic Tale of Shipwreck, Human Endeavour and Survival in the Age of Sail by Jean Hood
Marked for Misfortune: An Epic Tale of Shipwreck, Human Endeavour and Survival in the Age of Sail

Jean Hood

Marked for Misfortune: An Epic Tale of Shipwreck, Human Endeavour and Survival in the Age of Sail

Jean Hood

288 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
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In the August of 1792 the East Indiaman Winterton, with her precious cargo of 300,000 silver dollars, was wrecked on a reef off Madagascar. As the ship broke up, the 300 crew and passengers clung to pieces of wreckage, eventually to be washed up, ...

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