The Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder and the Last Taboo
Language: English
Published by Doubleday, London, U.K., 1999
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- The Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder and the Last Taboo
- Author
- Hanson, Neil
- Publisher
- Doubleday, London, U.K.
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0385600836
- ISBN 13
- 9780385600835
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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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 that 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.
From yellowing newspaper files, personal letters and diaries, and first-person accounts of the principals, Neil Hanson has pieced together the extraordinary tale of Captain Tom Dudley, the Mignonette and her crew. Their routine voyage culminated in unimaginable hardship and horror, during which the survivors of the storm had to make some impossible decisions. This is the true story of the voyage and the subsequent court case that outlawed for ever a practice followed since men first put to the ocean in boats: the custom of the sea.
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