Description: Death on the Ice : The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914, Paperback by Brown, Cassie; Horwood, Harold (CON), ISBN 0385685068, ISBN-13 9780385685061, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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, th paints an unforgettable portrait of the bloody
trade of seal hunting among the icefields when ships—and men—were expendable.
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Book Title: Death on the Ice : the Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-), Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Expeditions & Discoveries, Fisheries & Aquaculture
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Cassie Brown
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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