Wake of the Invercauld
shipwrecked in the sub-antarctic: a great granddaughter's pilgrimage
$40.52
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2005
Summary
This is the story of Robert Holding, a young English adventurer who was only 23 when he was shipwrecked with 19 others on the Auckland Islands in the sub-Antarctic Ocean in 1864. A year later he was rescued, along with only two of his shipmates. The others had perished from starvation and exposure.It was when Madelene Ferguson Allen was researching the history of her birth family that she discovered she was Holding’s great-granddaughter. Then she learned of the existence of his account of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780908988020 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0908988028 |
| Author: | Madelene Fergusson Allen |
| Publisher: | Exisle Publishing |
| Imprint: | Exisle Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2005 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 260mm x 186mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Madelene Fergusson Allen
Madelene Ferguson Allen was a geographer, teacher and writer who lived in Ontario, Canada. She travelled widely, spending considerable time in New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic islands, researching for this book and for another book about a famous shipwreck that will be published by Exisle in 2006. An earlier book, Reunion: Search for my Birth Family first brought her to the south Pacific. Madelene was married with two children. She died in 2003.
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