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The Wreck of the Grosvenor

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Author(s):W. Clark Russell
Illustrator(s):Mead Schaeffer
Publisher(s): Dodd, Mead & Co.
Year Published: 1923
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
American
Fiction - Novel
Sea Stories
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 349
OCLC: 2814824

Description

This novel of a mutiny aboard a ship bound for the Bermudas is often confused with an account of the actual sinking of a merchant ship off southern Africa in which, while most of the crew and passengers made it safely to land, the vast majority died of starvation. Read online at Hathitrust.

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