Castaways - Adrift and Abandoned: Thrilling Tales of the Sea (vol.3)

Seafaring before the twentieth century was perilous, with ships destroyed by tempest or misadventure, security scuttled, and castaways left to fend for themselves with only pluck, stamina, hope, and luck. These narratives of castaways and their ordeals are a remembrance of the seafarers who did not survive.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2021
Publisher: The History Press Ltd

Seafaring before the twentieth century was fraught with peril, with the safe haven of your vessel being destroyed by tempest or misadventure, your security scuttled. When you were cast away with only the resources of pluck, stamina, hope, and luck, you might end up on the expanse of endless sea facing the prospect of imminent dehydrated, starving death. Or on a safe but potentially forbidding – yet occasionally lush – outcrop of an isolated shore, amongst which perils abounded accounts of courage and companionship. These are narratives of castaways abandoned to fend for themselves, and the ordeals they endured and survived, and in remembrance of the seafarers who did not.

Weight: 290g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780750990868