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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A chilling tale of political favours, incompetence and a ship wrecked on a sandbank 70 miles of a desert shore and the dire consequences that transpired for the ordinary people aboard, many of whom were left standing deep in water on a raft with sharks circling; while the boats that could have been used to rescue them and get them ashore where kept ready to be used by the more distinguished passengers and crew. This is followed by the story of a daring land based rescue expedition to bring those who did make it ashore back out of the desert to safety. This was a bit disappointing. I had expected it to be more interesting considering that, the incident of the Medusa is mentioned in so many works as a basis of comparison. Perhaps I found it disappointing because it was so vague in places. However, I suppose that it would be difficult to write a highly detailed work about something that happened so long ago. It did have interesting end chapters, however. One chapter told of modern day examples of survival, such as the ordeal of the Andes survivors. Another chapter told of an experience in the 1940's of the rafts of Rio Azul, which had been torpedoed. These men, however, shared some type fraternity, & were therefore able to keep up morale until being rescued. Another chapter told of the artist Gericault & his creation of the disturbing portrayal of the struggles aboard the raft of the Medusa. It told of his deep depression he suffered afterward because, that he could never surpass his own masterpiece. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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If you despise humans who sell their souls for money and/or power, this book will add to your despising. Or, you can try to pity them, because really, though they strive so heartily to do so, and give up so much, they can never be happy, and end badly. ( )