This is the story of two survivors of the raft built for 150 survivors of the frigate "Medusa". Help Savigny naval surgeon, engineer and geographer Corréard publish their story in 1817 with great success. This experience of extreme survival (killings, cannibalism) struck readers as much as Géricault painting that is closely modeled. The Folio edition reproduces the text of the fifth edition found on Gallica amputated the judgment of the offending captain and legal troubles Bookseller Corréard as lyric poems on the event, but increased an excellent preface Alain Jaubert and various valuable reproductions and cards, the plan of the famous "machine" terrible name of the raft misfortune! Dintéressantes observations on the Moors, the desert, St Louis and Goree in Senegal at the time of the slave trade.
