Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors

5 best books like Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors (Stephen Taylor): Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Batavia, Rally Cry, Wreck of the Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft, Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

Author	Dean King
ISBN	0316159352

A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Reader and protagonist alike are challenged into new ways of understanding culture clash, slavery and the place of Islam in the social fabric of desert-dwelling peoples.

In a calm May morning in...

Batavia

Author	Peter FitzSimons
ISBN	1864710403

The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign...

Rally Cry

Author	William R. Forstchen
ISBN	0451450078

The Union Army fights the hordes of Genghis Khan -- in space!!!!

What makes this work of alternative history so terrific is that it presents the opposite perspective from Harry Turtledove's GUNS OF THE SOUTH. Instead of using time travel to palliate or gloss over the darker side of the Confederacy,...

Wreck of the Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft

Author	Alexander McKee
ISBN	0451200446

Originally published in 1974, this is a harrowing account of the grounding of the frigate Medusa off the coast of Africa and the abandonment of the ship by its 400 passengers and crew in seven boats and a poorly-built raft. McKee tells the story in a straightforward way, and he deftly moves the reader from...

Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea

Author	Frank Delaney
ISBN	0739326627

“HEAVEN HELP THE SAILOR ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS.”
–old folk prayer

In late December 1951, laden with passengers and nearly forty metric tons of cargo, the freighter S.S. Flying Enterprise steamed westward from Europe toward America. A few days into the voyage, she hit the eye of a ferocious...