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People on the ships are cast adrift without food, water. Graduating magna cum laude from university college, london, he received his doctorate from jesus college, oxford. The wreck of the medusa is a spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the. Completed when the artist was 27, the work has become an icon of french romanticism. The shipwreck, the scandal, the masterpiece, jonathan cape london, england, 2007. The wreck of the medusa, atlantic monthly press new york, ny, 2007, published as medusa. When pictures become enormously famous they are less and less well attended to as paintings, more and more celebrated as emblems or. The most famous sea disaster of the nineteenth century, by jonathan miles. Nov 20, 2008 the wreck of the medusa is jonathan miles s spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the titanic. The most famous sea disaster of the nineteenth century.
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