Download or read book Caliban's Shore written by Stephen Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the 1782 shipwreck of one of the East India Company's most prestigious ships, describing how ninety-one crew members and thirty-four wealthy passengers found themselves stranded on the unexplored coast of southeast Africa.