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The Custom Of The Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder and the Last Taboo
by Hanson, Neil
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385600836
- ISBN 13
- 9780385600835
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Doubleday, London, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 331 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is currently IN STOCK and would be shipped directly from our Australian address.. 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. 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; ISBN: 0385600836. ISBN/EAN: 9780385600835. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3640. . 9780385600835
Reviews
On Aug 17 2009, Zippy99 said:
As an Ex U.S. Navy man I have always been interested in Naval Customs, Traditions and History. This Book Is about one of the basic human needs.... survival. What lengths would a person go to ensure their own survival in what appears to be a hopeliss situation? This book deals with the age old question of the survival instincts of humans. What is right? What is Wrong? What is Moral or Immoral? they were not the first to face this question. What makes this book unique is the aftermath, the trial of the survivors. Men driven by hunger to do the deplorable having to face and explain at a trial no less, of their actions to others what they could not possibly understand. What would you do is not a fair question unless you have to face these circumstances yourself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3640
- Title
- The Custom Of The Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder and the Last Taboo
- Author
- Hanson, Neil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385600836
- ISBN 13
- 9780385600835
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Mignonette (Boat), Shipwrecks -- South Atlantic Ocean -- History -- 19th century, Trials (Murder) -- England -- History -- 19th century, Cannibalism, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc -- History -- 19th century, History; ISBN: 0
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About Great Southern Books
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