Flayhart, William H. : Perils of the Atlantic
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This absorbing book spins many captivating accounts of disasters and near-disasters at sea--far beyond the Titanic and the Lusitania. In 1892 the City of Chicago jammed her bow into an Irish peninsula but stayed afloat long enough for all to be rescued; one engine of the City of Paris exploded in the mid-Atlantic and yet miraculously still made port; and as recently as 2000, the Sea Breeze I sank off the East Coast of the United States, but all on board were rescued in a heroic effort by Coast Guard helicopters. These and many more horrific maritime episodes are offered here by a master storyteller.
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| Category: | Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > Literature in English > |
| Category: | Books > History > Universal history > |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton, 2003 |
| Item number / ISBN: | 9780393041552 |
| Binding: | half-cloth bound (in original dust jacket) |
| Page count: | 380 |
| Item language: | English |