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Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: A Great Granddaughter’s Pilgrimage

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This is the story of Robert Holding, a young English adventurer who used to be only 23 when he used to be shipwrecked with 19 others at the Auckland Islands in the sub-Antarctic Ocean in 1864. A year later he used to be rescued, at the side of only two of his shipmates. The others had perished from starvation and exposure. It used to be when Madelene Ferguson Allen used to be researching the history of her birth circle of relatives that she found out she used to be Holding’s great-granddaughter. Then she learned of the existence of his account of the shipwreck and his enforced stay at the Aucklands, so she made up our minds to retrace his footsteps. This book is an account of her journey, not only tracing the voyage of the Invercauld, but also the life of Robert Holding. Allen intersperses her narrative with extracts from Holding’s own journal, revealing an ordinary tale of survival, wherein conflict, cannibalism and cunning all play a part. The survivors’ rescue is in itself a hair-raising tale of intrigue and deception. Wake of the Invercauld is a gripping story so as to enthral any individual interested in true adventure at sea.

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