Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors

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Recounts the 1783 shipwreck of one of the East India Company's most prestigious ships, describing how ninety-one crew members and thirty-four wealthy passengers found themselves hundreds of miles from the nearest European outpost, disrupting native life on the unexplored coast of southeast Africa. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.