This Barren Rock: A True Tale of Shipwreck and Survival on the Southern Seas by Sylvie Haisman
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Overview: 1875 A True Tale of Shipwreck and Survival in the Southern Seas
Imagine one woman, forty-seven men and a three-year-old boy, shipwrecked on a tiny sub-Antarctic island. For seven months they eat albatross and burn penguin skins for fuel, before a passing whaler picks them up.
The woman was my great-great-great-grandmother Fanny Wordsworth. She and her son, Charlie, were migrating from Scotland to New Zealand. Two months out, their ship struck a rock, halfway between Antarctica and Madagascar…
The Scottish clipper Strathmore sailed from London in 1875, laden with gunpowder, iron and immigrants. Wrecked at night in furious seas, half her passengers struggled ashore to the bare, inhospitable rocks of the remote Crozet Islands. There they remained stranded, struggling to survive the bitter southern winter, given up for lost by their families and friends.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History
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