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Wild offers exceptional fiction and reportage, with a coast-dweller's sharp eye for maritime detail, and a humane regard for both the victims and the survivors of shipwrecks, both literal and metaphorical. From 'Prospects', a marvellous, moving reconstruction of the murderous maiden voyage of the Tayleur, to 'Luck is in the Leftovers', a gripping saga of living on the edge of the land, where life and death ebb and flow like the tides. Gill Hof...

Covers the little known true story of the enormous emigrant ship Ocean Monarch, which burned and sank with enormous loss of life a few hours after leaving Liverpool for Boston, and focuses on the fates of the people and animals involved.

Wild offers exceptional fiction and reportage, with a coast-dweller's sharp eye for maritime detail, and a humane regard for both the victims and the survivors of shipwrecks, both literal and metaphorical. From 'Prospects', a marvellous, moving reconstruction of the murderous maiden voyage of the Tayleur, to 'Luck is in the Leftovers', a gripping saga of living on the edge of the land, where life and death ebb and flow like the tides. Gill Hof...

A new approach to a tragic event in maritime history. Gill Hoffs has researched the previously untold stories of the people bound up in the sinking of RMS Tayleur in 1854, one of Britain's most shocking civilian sea disasters before the Titanic.

A new approach to a tragic event in maritime history overshadowed by more recent disasters. Gill Hoffs has researched the previously untold stories of the people bound up in the sinking of RMS Tayleur in 1854, one of Britain's most shocking civilian sea disasters before the Titanic.

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