Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal: The Wreck of the Medusa
J. B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Corréard
Two survivors of the frigate Medusa describe 13 days on a drifting raft off West Africa, the tragedy behind Gericault's famous painting.
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