The General Grant's Gold: Shipwreck and Greed in the Southern Ocean
Author(s): Madelene Ferguson Allen
The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world's great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. When the ship was crushed in a cave beneath a sheer cliff face, a few crew members and a handful of passengers managed to escape in a lifeboat. For more than two years they lived a hand-to-mouth existence on a nearby island before they were rescued. This story is extraordinary in itself, but soon compelling legends spread that the ship had sunk with a fabulous hoard of gold from the Victorian goldfields. For 140 years, expeditions and bounty hunters have searched for the ship and her elusive cargo. Locating the vessel has been difficult enough; finding the gold has proved impossible First published 2009.
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Madelene Ferguson Allen (1942-2003) was by training a geographer and by profession a teacher with 25 years' experience in her native Canada. In her earlier acclaimed book, Wake of the Invercauld (Exisle 1997, reprinted 2005), she tells the story of the wreck of the Invercauld in the Auckland Islands in 1864, and the amazing survival of her great-grandfather, Robert Holding. Ken Scadden is a historian and museum consultant. Formerly the Director of the Wellington City Museum and Curator of the Wellington Maritime Museum, he now runs his own consultancy, Heritage Advisory Services, from his home in Wellington.
General Fields
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- : Exisle Publishing Pty Limited
- : 0.398
- : 28 February 2009
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Madelene Ferguson Allen
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 910.452099399
- : 192
- : Ships & shipping: general interest; Maritime history
- : photographs, maps