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The Wreck of the Medusa

Author : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848672
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Medusa written by Jonathan Miles and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling . . . captivating” account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic—a tragedy that inspired an unforgettable masterpiece of Western art (The Boston Globe). In June 1816, the Medusa set sail. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate West African coast. During the chaotic evacuation a privileged few claimed the lifeboats, while 147 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft that was soon cut loose by the boats that had pledged to tow it to safety. Those on the boats made it ashore and undertook a two-hundred-mile trek through the sweltering Sahara, but conditions were far worse on the drifting raft. Crazed, parched, and starving, the diminishing band fell into mayhem. When rescue arrived thirteen days later, only fifteen were alive. Among the handful of survivors were two men whose bestselling account of the maritime disaster scandalized Europe and inspired promising artist Théodore Géricault, who threw himself into a study of the Medusa tragedy, turning it into a vast canvas in his painting, The Raft of the Medusa. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, The Wreck of the Medusa is “a captivating gem about art’s relation to history” (Booklist) and ultimately “a thrilling read” (The Guardian).

Wreck of the Medusa

Author : Alexander McKee
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602391866
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Wreck of the Medusa written by Alexander McKee and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In horrifying detail, this book tells the gruesome true story of the shipwreck of the French frigate "Medusa" off the coast of Senegal in 1816. Forced to abandon ship, 150 men and women embarked on an overloaded makeshift raft. After 12 days of riots, mutiny, murder, and cannibalism, only 15 survived. Back in print after 20 years, this book was originally published as "Death Raft".

Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816

Author : Jean Baptiste Henry Savigny
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 written by Jean Baptiste Henry Savigny and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 tells a story of the shipwreck of the Medusa frigate, its aftermath, and the tales of its survivors. Later in the book the author, Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny, describes the area where the shipwreck took place as well as his thoughts about colonization and about the practice of slavery.

Death Raft

Author : Alexander McKee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death Raft written by Alexander McKee and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1816, the French frigate Medusa ran aground on a sandbar 40 miles off the coast of Senegal. Forced to abandon ship by the captain, 150 men and women embarked on a makeshift raft so overloaded that they were up to their hips in water. But their ordeal was only beginning ...

Wreck of the Medusa

Author : Alexander McKee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101666838
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Wreck of the Medusa written by Alexander McKee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the strangest and most horrifying stories ever told.”—John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman “First rate.”—Newsweek In July, 1816, a French frigate ran aground on a sandbar forty miles off the coast of Africa. Forced to abandon ship, 150 men and women embarked on an overloaded makeshift raft. After twelve days of riots, mutiny, murder, and, ultimately, cannibalism, only fifteen were alive.

Martin Kippenberger

Author : Elfie Semotan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988930018
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Martin Kippenberger written by Elfie Semotan and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wreck of the Medusa

Author : Alexander McKee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628730293
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Wreck of the Medusa written by Alexander McKee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1816, a fleet of ships left France to accept the British hand-over of the port of Saint-Louis in Senegal. Among them was the frigate Medusa. A month after it set sail, she shank miles off of Africa's west coast, leaving the passengers to flee on lifeboats and a raft cobbled together from parts of the sinking ship. After a failed attempt by those in the lifeboats to tow the raft, it—and the more than 150 people aboard—were abandoned. This is the horrific tale, filled with suicide, murder, and cannibalism, of those left behind.

Raft of the Medusa

Author : Joseph Pintauro
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822213147
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Raft of the Medusa written by Joseph Pintauro and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In an opening scene, a man dies an agonizing death from AIDS. The play itself is an explosive AIDS support group session, where the members discover the disease they share can divide as effectively as it conquers. The members of the grou

WRECK

Author : TOM. DE FRESTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783786633
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book WRECK written by TOM. DE FRESTON and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Skeletons on the Zahara

Author : Dean King
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759509697
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Skeletons on the Zahara written by Dean King and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.

Gericault

Author : LORENZ E. A. EITNER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Gericault written by LORENZ E. A. EITNER and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medusa's Coil

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667682172
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Coil written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and compelling tale of brooding horror that deepens and broadens to the final catastrophe—an unusual and engrossing novelette by the author of "The Curse of Yig."

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable

Author : Elena Geuna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788831727693
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable written by Elena Geuna and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Keeping an Eye Open

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101874791
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Keeping an Eye Open written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art—from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending. “An engaging and empathetic volume.” —The New York Times Book Review As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting … But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.” This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. In his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Barnes had a chapter on Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cézanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin. The seventeen essays gathered here help trace the arc from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism; they are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read.

Narrative of the Dreadful Shipwreck of the Medusa Frigate, etc

Author : Frigate MEDUSA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Narrative of the Dreadful Shipwreck of the Medusa Frigate, etc written by Frigate MEDUSA and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medusa

Author : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Pimlico
ISBN 13 : 9781845952204
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Medusa written by Jonathan Miles and published by Pimlico. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail but ran aground off the desolate West African coast. The evacuation of the frigate was chaotic and cowardly - 146 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft which was then abandoned in mid-ocean, cut loose by the convoy of lifeboats which had pledged to tow it to safety. The drifting raft carried those who survived to the very frontiers of human experience. Crazed, parched and starving, the diminishing band slaughtered mutineers, ate their dead companions and organized a tactical extermination of the weakest among them. Among the handful of survivors from the raft were two men whose written account of the tragedy catalogued the trail of government incompetence, indifference, and cover-up. Their book became a best-seller which rocked Europe and inspired the promising artist, Theodore Gericault. Reeling from an illicit affair with his attractive young aunt, he threw himself into an exhaustive study of the Medusa tragedy.Set in the politically fragile world of Restoration France, the murk of Georgian London and along the dangerous West African coast where the French were covertly regenerating the outlawed slave trade, Medusawitnesses error and outrage turned into a bestseller, and that bestseller transformed into one of the masterpieces of Western art.

Night Probe!

Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553394924
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Night Probe! written by Clive Cussler and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at salvation for an energy-starved, economically devastated nation, but the only two copies plummeted into the watery depths of the Atlantic in twin disasters long ago. The original document must be found—and the one American who can do the job is Dirk Pitt. But in London, a daring counterplot is being orchestrated to see that the treaty is never implemented. Brian Shaw, a master spy who has often worked hand in hand with American agents, now confronts his most challenging command. Pitt’s mission: Raise the North American Treaty. Shaw’s mission: Stop Pitt. Praise for Night Probe! and the Dirk Pitt® novels “A rich tale . . . an absorbing, carefully told mystery with plenty of surprises.”—Los Angeles Times “Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau.”—New York Daily News