{"product_id":"the-wreck-of-the-medusa-the-most-famous-sea-disaster-of-the-nineteenth-century-0871139596","title":"The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0871139596\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Miles, Jonathan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Wreck of the Medusa is a spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic, a tragedy that riled a nation and inspired Thodore Gricaults magnificent painting The Raft of the Medusa . In June 1816, the flagship of a French expedition to repossess a colony in Senegal from the British set sail. She never arrived at her destination; her incompetent captain Hugo de Chaumareys, ignoring telltale signs of shallow waters, plowed the ship into a famously treacherous sandbar. A privileged few claimed the lifeboats while 146 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft and set adrift. Without a compass or many provisions, hit by a vicious storm the first night, and exposed to sweltering heat during the following days, the group set upon each other: mayhem, mutiny, and murder ensued. When rescue arrived thirteen days later only fifteen were alive. Meanwhile, those in the boats who made it to shore undertook a dangerous two-hundred-mile slog through the desert. Among the handful of survivors from the raft were two men whose written account of the fiasco became a bestseller that rocked Frances political foundations and provided graphic fodder for Gricaults world-famous painting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52191335579936,"sku":"NEW0871139596","price":37.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/A1Mzx5LY1kL.jpg?v=1786827978","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-wreck-of-the-medusa-the-most-famous-sea-disaster-of-the-nineteenth-century-0871139596","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}