Article: Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece.(Brief article)(Book review)

Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece. Jonathan Miles. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]17.99. xiii + 334 pages. ISBN 978-0-224-07303-5. This is the masterful story of one of the world's most famous shipwrecks and paintings. The Medusa was one of the ships sent by Paris to retake Senegal in 1816. It ran aground and 146 men and one woman were placed on a raft to be towed to safety. The raft was then cut loose in the Atlantic and of the 147, fifteen survived. Of these two wrote up their experiences, which included ...

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