The Caliban Shore. The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways.

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 285. Illustrated wraps; b/w illus. chapter headings. Maps, Sources, Notes, List of illustrations, Index.

The story of the famous 18th century Grosvenor shipwreck on the coast of south-eastern Africa and of what befell the ship's castaways. "A wonderful book, hugely satisfying on many levels – as a survival-and-ordeal chronicle, as social history, as anthropology, and an early foray into the exotic, but most of all as an adventure." –Paul Theroux