THE TRUE STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR. EAST INDIAMAN

Wrecked on the coast of Pondoland South Africa on 4 August 1782

First edition: 266 pages, frontispieces (photographs of a scale model of the Grosvenor), folding map, sketch map, 9 plates, plan of the ship as endpapers, booksellers ticket on the front paste down end paper, patterned blue and white cloth boards, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

Editor's note: This book is a vivid reconstruction from the first-hand evidence of the whole story of the wreck of the Grosvenor from the laying down of her keel to the latest attempts to salvage the vast treasures with which the ship is popularly supposed to have been laden. The myths which have grown up round the stories of bullion and the Peacock Throne are examined and firmly disproved.