Description: Brown. Death on the Ice : The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster Of 1914. Anchor Canada 1972 but probably 2015 or so. Softcover. Very Good Octavo 217 pp "Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman 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, freezing days and nights a party of seal hunters--one hundred thirty-two 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 on the ice against the snow or the constant, bitter winds. To survive they had to keep moving, always moving. Those who lay down to rest died."
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Book Title: Death on the Ice : The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
Author: Cassie Brown
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Topic: History
