Blenden Hall: The True Story of a Shipwreck, a Casting Away, and Life on a Desert Island

An account of the story of the Blenden Hall, a ship that, in 1821, became shipwrecked on Inaccessible Island in the Tristan da Cunha group of islands in the south Atlantic. The book recounts the story of the survivors' struggle for survival and their ultimately successful bid for rescue eight months later.