The Wreck of the Golden Mary

Name: The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Author: Charles Dickens

The Golden Mary, a fine ship bound round Cape Horn for the California gold-fields, strikes an iceberg in the dark and is lost — and her company must endure a long ordeal in open boats on the wide ocean. Written together by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins for the Christmas of 1856, this is a stirring, tender tale of shipwreck and survival: of the discipline and self-sacrifice of Captain Ravender and his mate Steadiman, the greed of a gold-mad passenger, and the love the whole rough crew lavishes on the little child they call Golden Lucy. A moving story in which courage, fairness, and human kindness prove the only things that can bring people through. Complete and richly illustrated.

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