The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1956 novel by Hammond Innes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the novel. For the 1959 film adaptation, see The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film).
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (in the UK published as The Mary Deare) is a 1956 novel written by British author Hammond Innes,[1] which was later adapted as a film starring Gary Cooper released in 1959 by MGM.[2] According to Jack Adrian, the book "at a stroke launched him into that rarefied empyrean most writers yearn for though few attain, supersellerdom."[3]
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The success of the book - and the 1959 film based on it starring Gary Cooper - enabled Innes to buy his own 42 ft ocean racer, which he named Mary Deare.[3]