Shipwreck and greed in the Southern Ocean
by
Madelene Ferguson Allen, Ken Scadden
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world's great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. The General Grant was rumoured to contain a fabulous hoard of gold found in the Victorian goldfields; gold estimated to be...