Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914 [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Brown, Cassie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385685068 ISBN 13: 9780385685061

Verlag: Anchor Canada, 2015

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Críticas:

"Cassie Brown has done a magnificent job. It's been a long time since the appearance of a Canadian book that so graphically describes the horrible abuse and disdain with which the working man was treated in the early part of this century."
-"Calgary Herald

""Death on the Ice" succeeds not only in capturing the essence of the event, but maintains an atmosphere of taut suspense up to the climactic rescue. A thriller."
-"Financial Post"

"A compelling reconstruction of the 1914 'Newfoundland' disaster...invites comparison with "The Naked and the Dead..."
-"Newfoundland Herald"""

Reseña del editor:

Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fishermen sailed out “to the ice” to hunt seals in the hope of a few pennies in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John’s. The year 1914 witnessed the worst in the long line of tragedies that were part of their harsh way of life.
            For two long days and nights a party of seal hunters—132 men—were left stranded on an icefield floating in the North Atlantic in winter. They were thinly dressed, with almost no food, and with no hope of shelter against the snow or the constant, bitter winds. To survive they had to keep moving, always moving. Those who lay down to rest died.
            This is an incredible story of bungling and greed, of suffering and heroism. With the aid of compelling, contemporary photographs, the book paints an unforgettable portrait of the bloody
trade of seal hunting among the icefields when ships—and men—were expendable.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Anchor Canada
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0385685068
• ISBN 13: 9780385685061
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256