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The Caliban Shore, The fate of the Grosvenor castaways
Stephen Taylor
The story of the ill-fated 1782 voyage of the Grosvenor, a merchant ship of the East India Company. Wrecked on the then uncharted coast of South Africa on its return voyage to England, the 90 survivors found themselves on hundreds of miles from refuge of a European settlement.
Hardback with dust jacket in as new condition. Reg Vallintine bookplate on inside front cover.
297 pages
B&W photographs and central section of colour photographs
163 mm x 240 mm (approx.6.5 in x 9.5 in)
2004, Faber and Faber
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