Buy this book on-line Alexander, Michael : Mrs. Fraser on the Fatal ShoreSimon and Schuster, New York, 1971 ISBN 0671208284
189pp. B&W Illustrations. The true narrative of the shipwreck, capture, sufferings, and miraculous escape of Eliza Fraser from aborigine cannibals,1835, 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Alexander, Michael : Mrs. Fraser on the Fatal Shore. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. ALEXANDER, MICHAEL: : Mrs.Fraser On The Fatal ShoreLONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1971. ISBN 0718108159.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour+b/w illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and generally clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Sharp-cornered,bright,crisp,clean, publisher's original,plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate blue+white map illustrated eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-185pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a copy of
'Mournful Verses (relating to the wreck of the Stirling Castle),15 chapters and an epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w illus/ plates comprising 16 illus between pp96/7, and appendices(13).Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication, acknowledgements,illus list/table,and 4pp of title-pages (2 are b/w illustrated) of contemporary books (1837/8) relating to Mrs. Fraser at rear.
In 1836 the barque Stirling Castle was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef and the crew and the captain's wife cast ashore on the coast of what is now Queensland.
Captured by stone age aborigines of rude habits and cannibalistic tendencies Captain Fraser was speared to death and other members of the crew disposed of in various ways.Mrs. Fraser,a lady of genteel upbringing,was stripped naked by her
captors and made to perform exacting and humiliating tasks as slave to the tribe.
Having lately given birth in an open boat to a baby which was immediately drowned, she was forced to mother an aboriginal child which she described as "one of the most deformed and ugly-looking brats my eyes ever beheld."
A remarkable rescue by an Irish convict, who had lived among the natives as the "ghost" of a dead warrior,may or may not have saved her from "a fate worse than death".
Mrs. Fraser's subsequent misadventures and impositions in England add an intriguing finale to a fascinating tale.
This is a true story,supported by documentary evidence,behind one of the great Australian legends.
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