Paine gathers true stories from the age of sail: the drifting brig Polly, the raft of the frigate Medusa, the wreck of the Blenden Hall, four thousand miles in an open boat, the mystery of La Pérouse’s vanished ships, the loss of the Wager and the grim winter of the Nottingham Galley, with a chapter on the roaring days of piracy.
Real shipwreck and survival narratives retold by an American journalist with a sailor’s feel for the sea. Download the free EPUB.