Miles, Jonathan. The Wreck of the Medusa.(Brief article)(Book review)

* Miles, Jonathan. The Wreck of the Medusa. Atlantic Monthly. Oct. 2007. c.336p. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 0-87113-959-6 [ISBN 978-0-87113-959-7]. $25. HIST This is an exciting and highly readable adventure story with skillfully interwoven narratives of a famous sea disaster and the political trials of Restoration France. In 1816, the French frigate Medusa went on an ill-fated expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal. Off Senegal's shore, the ship ran aground, and the incompetent captain set some 150 passengers adrift on a crude raft. Only 15 survived. The fate of the Medusa scandalized France and captured the imagination of young Romantic artist Theodore Gericault, …