The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century | Jonathan Miles
Describes the 1816 sinking of the Medusa, the flagship of a French expedition en route to reclaim a colony in Senegal from the British, which ran aground thanks to the incompetence of the ship's captain, Hugo de Chaumareys, and details the resulting ordeal of its survivors, some of whom escaped in lifeboats, and the others who were forced onto a makeshift raft. Reprint.
The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century | 
