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

by Madelene Ferguson Allen

This is the story of Robert Holding, a young English adventurer who was only 23 when he was shipwrecked with 19 others on the Auckland Islands in the sub-Antarctic Ocean in 1864. A year later he was rescued, along with only two of his shipmates. The others had perished from starvation and exposure. It was when Madelene Ferguson Allen was researching the history of her birth family that she discovered she was Holding's great-granddaughter. Then she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0908988028
• ISBN13: 9780908988020
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Exisle Pub
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"