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After the Storm: True Stories |
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A thinking persons Perfect Storm. Rousmaniere
extrapolates from individual accounts of horrifying
events at sea to trace a history of human interpretations of the meaning of life and death
on the vast deep.
Table of Contents:
Ariel and Percy Bysshe Shelly:Italy 1812
The Elizabeth & Margaret Fuller: New York 1850
The Yankee Gale : Gulf of St Lawrence 1851
The Escape of the Calliope:Samoa 1899
The Loss of the Portland:Mass. Bay 1898
Hamrah and the Ameses: The North Atlantic 1935
The Wreck of the Pollux:Newfoundland 1942
Derelicts:Mary Celeste Azores1872 and the First DraftGulf Stream 1996
Amazing Graces: The Prophet, the Apostle,and the Hymn Writer.
The Ulysses Generation in the Southern Ocean
Appendix: Storm Strategy and tactics
338 pp., hardcover
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