The Custom of the Sea: The True Story That Changed British Law - Couverture rigide

Hanson, Neil

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385600836 ISBN 13 : 9780385600835

Editeur : Doubleday, 1999

Synopsis

Hanson has pieced together the story of the four survivors of the shipwrecked Mignonette, cast adrift at sea for a terrifying 24 days without food or water and the ensuing trial that gripped the nation of the three who finally reached land.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

On 5 July 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton bound for Sydney. Halfway through their projected one hundred and twenty day voyage, Captain Tom Dudley and his crew of three men were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of Africa. After four days of battling towering waves and hurricane gales, their yacht was finally crushed by a ferocious forty foot wave.

The survivors were cast adrift a thousand miles from the nearest landfall in an open thirteen foot dinghy without provisions, water or shelter from the scorching sun. When, after twenty four days, they were finally rescued by a passing yacht, the Moctezuma, only three men were left and they were in an appalling condition. The ordeal that they endured and the trial which followed their eventual return to England held the whole nation - from the lowliest ship's deckhand to Queen Victoria herself - spellbound during the following winter.

This is the true story of the voyage and the subsequent court case which outlawed for ever a practice followed since men first put to the ocean in boats: the custom of the sea.

Revue de presse

"'An engrossing account'" (The Sunday Times)

"'A terrific story...a riveting read'" (Spectator)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385600836
• ISBN 13: 9780385600835
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible