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Price: $5.99
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Sale: $2.65
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Manufacturer: Avon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Walter J. Lord
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Publisher: Avon
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.1230961
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Publication Date: 1998-02-01
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Reading Level: 244
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Description: You might say that Walter Lord provoked the whole Titanic mania by interviewing dozens of survivors and fashioning their reminiscences into the classic non-fiction novel A Night to Remember, which was made into a 1958 film that heavily influenced James Cameron's 1998 epic. Some of the dialogue is more vivid than the 1998 film--when a kid sees the deadly iceberg, he says excitedly, "Oh, Muddie, look at the beautiful North Pole with no Santa Claus on it." But much has been discovered since Lord's original book made waves--such as the shipwreck itself, and a wealth of scientific inquiry. So he wrote this semisequel, which tackles each of the remaining mysteries about the unnecessary calamity in a methodical, but quite readable, fashion. How come the wireless operators blew it so fatally? Maybe they would have had better operators if they paid them more than $5 a week--as Lord notes, it would have taken a wireless operator 18 years to earn one transatlantic ticket. How come the Californian just sat there in nearby waters and neglected to save anyone on the frantically signaling and flare-firing Titanic? Lord quotes a man on the nonsinking ship admitting to "a certain amount of slackness," which he uses for a sardonic chapter title. Some of the characters are more sympathetic, such as Renee Harris, who used the money she won suing the Titanic owners for her husband's death to bankroll neophyte playwright Moss Hart's first show. Lord says that Hart's memoir, Act One, depicts Harris reacting to an opening-night flop with optimism. After you've survived the Titanic, what's to worry? Walter Lord has gotten better reviews, and he needn't fret about his reputation. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman, author of A Distant Mirror, had this reaction to Night Lives On: "Stunning ... his detection and discoveries make a first-class historical reconstruction and a model in the research and writing of that difficult art." --Tim Appelo
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $33.35
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Manufacturer: MBI
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Greg Field
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Publisher: MBI
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.452
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Publication Date: 2003-07-13
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Great Ship Disasters contains insider information on the most sensational incidents at sea over the past one hundred years. From the wrath of nature creating mayhem aboard, to the mechanical incidents that led to horrific consequences and the unexplained disappearances of numerous seaworthy vessels, inside are the true tales of life-and death-at sea. Organized by type of disaster and covering the evolution of the passenger and cruise ship industry, Great Ship Disasters takes readers onboard for each incident and utilizes more than 150 photos to offer an in-depth perspective of disasters at sea.Pub Date: JUNE 2003
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $14.24
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Manufacturer: Chartwell Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Eric Caren
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Publisher: Chartwell Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641
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Publication Date: 1998-09
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: April 14, 1912, a day of infamy! Just before midnight, the cold waters of the North Atlantic were parted by the magnificent new luxury liner SS Titanic. Suddenly, a scraping sound, a jarring sensation, and the mighty liner began to sink. Within hours it had plummeted into the depths of the ocean with a loss of 1,595 of her 2,340 passengers. In this graphic and thrilling collection of vintage newspaper pages--the true story of the Titanic's demise and the tales of her survivors are told with the immediacy that only the newspapers of the time were able to capture. Not only was this the maiden voyage of a great ship, it was the social event of the decade. The cream of society of two continents was aboard. They perished along with sailors, women, children, and impoverished steerage passengers. Full speed ahead had wrought death and devastation. With this one horrible event, man's faith in his ability to harness technology to beat the elements of nature came crumbling down. No longer would captains plow through the night at full-speed in iceberg-filled waters. No longer would we believe we could conquer the unconquerable. Here you will find the heart-rending personal stories of the survivors, as well as accounts of the launch of the Titanic, the problems of early wireless telegraphy, the terror of icebergs, and the vanity and arrogance of the owners and captain that led to the greatest seafaring disaster of all time.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $1.99
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Manufacturer: Bison Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Bison Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 979.502
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Publication Date: 2001-02-01
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Reading Level: 110
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Description: In 1808 the Sv. Nikolai, owned by the Russian American Company, set sail from New Arkhangel (modern-day Sitka, Alaska) to explore and identify a site for a permanent Russian fur trading post on the mainland south of Vancouver Island. Heavy seas drove the ship aground in late December, forcing twenty-two crew members ashore, including Anna Petrovna Bulygin, the wife of ship captain Nikolai Isaakovich Bulygin. Over the next several months the shipwrecked crew clashed with Hohs, Quileutes, and Makahs, but with little knowledge of the country, the castaways soon found themselves owing their lives to the very tribes they had fought with upon arrival. The tribes captured and enslaved several of the crew members. In 1810 an American captain sailing for the Russian American Company ransomed the survivors. This volume combines two source accounts of the event. The first is the story of a Russian survivor, Timofei Osipovich Tarakanov, the expedition's leader after the shipwreck. The second is a Quileute account, preserved orally for nearly a century before being recorded in 1909. Combined, these wonderful accounts tell a tale of adventure with moments of high drama, heroism, a touch of comedy, and eventual tragedy.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $5.95
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Owen Chase
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.45
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Publication Date: 1999-08-01
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: The original narratives of the whaling disaster that inspired Moby-Dick. Melville's famous description of the sinking of the Pequod by the white whale--one of the most exciting moments in American literature--was based on a true story documented in 1821 by first mate Owen Chase in his Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex, and by his shipmate and captain in two separate accounts. Each account tells of a sperm whale's attack on the Essex in the South Seas, and of the crew's three-month struggle while stranded in small open boats. Of twenty men, eight survived. Six who died were eaten by their shipmates, one--the cabin boy--after lots had been drawn. The captain writes that he exclaimed, My lad, my lad, if you don't like your lot, I'll shoot the first man that touches you. The boy replied, I like it as well as any other. He was soon dispatched, the captain writes, and nothing of him left . . . my head is on fire at the recollection. This volume reproduces these gripping accounts, as well as Herman Melville's notes on the narratives. It sheds light on both our darkest impulses and our most ascendant selves, and gives rare insight into the workings of one of the most important literary minds of all time.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $12.93
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Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ted Wachholz
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.452
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Publication Date: 2005-08-22
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: The fifth annual midsummer excursion and picnic had been organized by the employees of the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works. Thousands of carefree merrymakers would enjoy a festive day including a lovely cruise across Lake Michigan to an awaiting parade and day-long picnic. The day would conclude with an evening cruise back to Chicago. For thousands of hard-working immigrant laborers and their families and friends, it was going to be a day to remember. Instead, the day’s scheduled event turned into a tragedy unlike any other. The SS Eastland, while still tied to the wharf, rolled into the Chicago River with more than 2,500 passengers on board. Nearly 850 people lost their lives, including 22 entire families. The ensuing struggle for survival, and the resulting death, heroism, cowardice, greed, and scandal gripped the
city of Chicago.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $12.54
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William H. Flayhart
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.12309163
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Publication Date: 2003-06-09
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: This collection of 23 stories of disaster and adventure covers well-known tragedies, such as the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania, to lesser-known survivors of peril on the Atlantic. In some instances, tragedy and great loss of human life occurred while in others the officers and crew of the ships preserved their vessels and reached port safely. Previously unpublished material features in some of the most compelling episodes in man's ongoing battle with the sea.
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Price: $23.50
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Sale: $18.79
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Manufacturer: Sheridan House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George H. Reid
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Publisher: Sheridan House
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Dewey Decimal Number: 627.703
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Publication Date: 1996-10-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: For some, the word "salvage" conjures visions of priceless treasure recovered from the wreckage of long-lost Spanish galleons; for others it implies rescue tugs plowing through mountainous waves in search of a stricken vessel. In reality, patching and refloating a sunken skiff or towing in a disabled yacht are acts of salvage every bit as important as refloating a stranded supertanker. This informative guide describes the many types of salvage operations, both rare and common, that now constitute a very busy industry.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $8.75
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Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press/Regional
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mark Bourrie
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.704
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Publication Date: 2005-04-19
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Reading Level: 278
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Description: Many a Midnight Ship brings to life the powerful history of the greatest northern waterway of the North American continent. These fourteen stories illustrate the majesty of the Great Lakes and the tragedy bestowed upon its waters. From the "coffin" ship Atlantic, which foundered in 1852 along with some 300 lives, and which salvagers say still has millions of dollars of gold on board, to the burning of the Erie and some 250 Dutch immigrants, to the violent storm that tore the Algoma apart off Isle Royale, where crew and passengers clamored for their lives only twenty yards form shore as treacherous currents prevented most of them from reaching land. These stories recount not only the calamities the Great Lakes have seen, but the remarkable acts of heroism, courage, and survival that have arisen when humans defy nature. View the Fall 2007 Michigan and Great Lakes catalog here. |
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $124.09
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Judith B. Geller
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910.91634
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Publication Date: 1998-10
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Of the more than 200 books written about the Titanic, this is the first to commemorate the women and children on board. Presented here are personal interviews with survivors and their relatives, and biographies of the women and children as well as the male passengers and crew with whom they had contact. The passengers' own voices are recorded in diaries, letters, and newspaper stories. Schematics of the vessel show where the passengers were at the time of the sinking. Each passenger section (first class, second class, and third class) is introduced with a brief overview on the conventions of society at the turn of the twentieth century, when survival in life, as on this doomed ship, depended too often on social class. Also assembled here are fascinating color photographs of recently recovered artifacts, linked to their owners wherever possible, as well as period postcards, advertisements, and pictures. This book contains the most up-to-date passenger list yet published; a chart of the women and children who perished or were saved presented by class; Titanic-related addresses; and a comprehensive index which make this not just a moving chronicle of a uniquely painful event but also an invaluable resource.
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