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A riveting account of a horrifying act of desperation at sea and the sensational legal drama that followed <p>Cast adrift in a tiny boat on a vast and desolate ocean, faced with almost certain death, what would you be willing to do to survive? This is the agonizing question that lies at the heart of the horrifying drama of <i>The Custom of the Sea</i>.</p> <p>On July 5, 1884, Captain Tom Dudley and his crew of three set sail from Southampton, England, aboard the yacht Mignonette, bound for Sydney. Halfway through their voyage they were hit by a ferocious storm off the coast of Africa. After four days battling towering waves and hurricane force gales, the yacht was finally crushed by a massive forty-foot "freak wave." Adrift in an open thirteen-foot dinghy, a thousand miles from landfall, and without food or water, Captain Dudley and his crew endured a horrific twenty-four-day ordeal climaxing in the desperate decision to practice the time-honored "custom of the sea." While the others watched, the captain killed the weakest of them, the seventeen-year-old cabin boy, and his body was eaten.</p> <p>In this dramatic account of the ordeal of the Mignonette's crew and the sensational mur

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Author

Hanson, Neil

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780471383895

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Social_sciences

Rating

4.2 / 5 (181 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14