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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dolin, Eric Jay (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2026]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mentor (Ship : 1812-1832)
Shipwrecks > Palau.
Shipwreck survival > Palau.
Shipwrecks > Pacific Ocean.
Whaling ships > United States > History > 19th century.
Naufrages > Pacifique, Océan.
Naufrages > Belau.
Survie après naufrages > Belau.
NATURE / Animals / Marine Life.
Shipwrecks
Pacific Ocean
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Author's note
  • Cast of characters
  • Introduction
  • Pursuing the Leviathans of the deep
  • Palau
  • A warm embrace
  • Plunder
  • Water, water everywhere
  • Are you English?
  • 'Old Charley'
  • Don't go
  • A grand canoe
  • Threats
  • Departure
  • From bad to worse
  • Vicious reception
  • Tobi
  • Existence
  • The Sabina
  • Retribution
  • Death, survival, and hope
  • The Brittania
  • Home
  • The Vincennes
  • 'I am too happy!'
  • Delicate and duplicitous negotiations
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Illustration credits.