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The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
by Eric Jay Dolin
The American whaleship Mentor wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen faced not only the miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar territory but also the profound uncertainty of contact with the Indigenous people of the Micronesian archipelago of Palau, who within days, approached the deserted men brandishing axes, clubs, and spears.
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