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

Author/Contributor(s):	Miles, Jonathan
Publisher:	Grove Press
Date:	11/01/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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."