The Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder, and the Last Taboo by Neil Hanson

The Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder, and the Last Taboo

Neil Hanson

404 pages paperback 1999

3 editions

nonfiction history true crime
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The inspiration for the Broadway musical Swept Away: "An exciting, historically accurate depiction of a disastrous 19th-century sea journey." --Publishers Weekly In the late 1800s, the Essex coast of England was known for producing the toughest, ...

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