The Wreck of the Mary Deare
โ Scribed by Innes, Hammond
- Book ID
- 109071200
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 637 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking.
But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved. As Hammond Innes' classic tale moves from desperate struggles on the sea to a nail-biting courtroom controversy, the murky truth about the last voyage of the Mary Deare finally comes to light.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
They dismissed the Mary Deare as "a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap". For forty years, this 6,000-ton freighter had tramped the seas, suffered shipwreck twice, and been torpedoed three times in two world wars. Then one March night, battered, bruised, and empty, she emerged from