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Adrift

- A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Man Who Lived to Tell about It
Af: Brian Murphy Engelsk Hardback

Adrift

- A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Man Who Lived to Tell about It
Af: Brian Murphy Engelsk Hardback
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A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death

The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only one would survive. This is his story.

As they started their nine days adrift more than four hundred miles off Newfoundland, the castaways--an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen, including Thomas W. Nye from Fairhaven, Massachusetts--began fighting over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died. Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only Nye and the ship''s log survived.

Using Nye''s firsthand descriptions and later newspaper accounts, ship''s logs, assorted diaries, and family archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold gray Atlantic. Adrift brings readers to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and desperate act is a potential life saver or life taker.
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A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death

The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only one would survive. This is his story.

As they started their nine days adrift more than four hundred miles off Newfoundland, the castaways--an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen, including Thomas W. Nye from Fairhaven, Massachusetts--began fighting over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died. Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only Nye and the ship''s log survived.

Using Nye''s firsthand descriptions and later newspaper accounts, ship''s logs, assorted diaries, and family archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold gray Atlantic. Adrift brings readers to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and desperate act is a potential life saver or life taker.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9780306902000
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0306902001
Udg. Dato: 11 okt 2018
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 161mm
Højde: 236mm
Forlag: Hachette Books
Oplagsdato: 11 okt 2018
Forfatter(e): Brian Murphy
Forfatter(e) Brian Murphy


Kategori Sande fortællinger: heltemod og overlevelse


ISBN-13 9780306902000


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 240


Udgave


Længde 30mm


Bredde 161mm


Højde 236mm


Udg. Dato 11 okt 2018


Oplagsdato 11 okt 2018


Forlag Hachette Books

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