The Wreck of the Grosvenor is a gripping adventure novel that features the life on a trading ship during its journey across the Atlantic. As the ’Grosvenor’ makes headway there are rumblings among the crew with each passing day. Things rapidly reach boiling point, the mutiny takes place and the only one who seems to be able to rise to the occasion is the second officer Edward Royle, who will make an attempt to save the lives of the innocent from that chaos.
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William Clark Russell (1844-1911) was an English writer best known for his nautical novels. At the age of 13 Russell joined the United Kingdom’s Merchant Navy, serving for eight years. The hardships of life at sea damaged his health permanently, but provided him with material for a career as a writer. He wrote short stories, press articles, historical essays, biographies and a book of verse, but was known best for his novels, most of which were about life at sea. He maintained a simultaneous career as a journalist, principally as a columnist on nautical subjects for The Daily Telegraph.