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Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester - A True Restoration Tragedy (Hardcover)
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Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester - A True Restoration Tragedy (Hardcover)
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In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James,
Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as
heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a
fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite
with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route,
somewhere off the Norfolk coast. The royal frigate in which he
sailed, the Gloucester, sank, causing some two hundred sailors and
courtiers to perish. The diarist Samuel Pepys had been asked to
sail with James but refused the invitation, preferring to travel in
one of the other ships. Why? What did he know that others did not?
Nigel Pickford's compelling account of the catastrophe draws on a
richness of historical material including letters, diaries and
ships' logs, revealing for the first time the full drama and tragic
consequences of a shipwreck that shook Restoration Britain.
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