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by Christopher Langman, Nicholas Mellen, sailor on the Nottingham galley George White
Full title
A True Account of the Voyage of the Nottingham-Galley of London, John Dean Commander, from the River Thames to New-England
Language
en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Leonardo Palladino and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2016-08-10
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
A lesser-known early 20th-century writer, he is chiefly remembered today for adventure fiction preserved through Project Gutenberg. Reliable biographical details are scarce, which gives his surviving work an archival, rediscovered feel.
View all booksBest known as one of the three survivors who told the story of the Nottingham Galley wreck, this early eighteenth-century mariner left behind a short but unforgettable firsthand account of disaster, endurance, and rescue.
View all booksBest known as one of the three men who signed a harrowing 1711 survivor account, this sailor left behind a rare first-person glimpse of one of early New England’s most infamous shipwrecks. His voice survives through a story of wreck, hunger, accusation, and endurance on Boon Island.
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