THE WRECK OF THE GENERAL GRANT

On 6 May 1866 the GENERAL GRANT, a full-rigged three-masted American ship bound for Britain via Cape Horn, sailed form Melbourne carrying 83 souls and a miscellaneous cargo that included, according to the ship's manifest, 2,500 ounces of gold. Ten days later the vessel foundered, wedged halfway into a cavern on the pitiless coast of the Auckland Islands, graveyard of many stout ships before and after the GENERAL GRANT . . .(The author's] analysis of what the treasure may in fact have amounted to, and its probable location today, concludes a spellbinding narrative of marine disaster, of human fortitude and self-sacrifice, and of the madness of men consumed by the burning fever for gold.This copy is in FINE condition in a FINE unclipped dustwrapper.