The wreck of the Mentor : a true story of death, despair, and deliverance in the age of sail /

"True story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen face not only the bleak miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar territory but also the tense uncertainty of first contact with the Indigenous...

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