Left to die : the story of the SS Newfoundland sealing disaster / Gary Collins.
Left to die : the story of the SS Newfoundland sealing disaster / Gary Collins.
By
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Collins, Gary, 1949-
Publication Date
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2014
Publication Information
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St. John's, N.L. : Flanker Press Limited,
Physical Description
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342 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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Newfoundland -- Sealing disaster, 1914.
Sealing -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History.
Summary
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They didn’t die like flies, you know, like I’ve heard some reporters say over the years. Oh no, it wasn’t like that a’tall. The men who died didn’t just drop like flies. There was nothing quick or easy about it. They had frozen feet, and fingers too numb and cramped with the cold to wipe the tears from their eyes.” Cecil Mouland, the last living survivor of the SS Newfoundland sealing disaster, told his story to Gary Collins in the fall of 1971 while travelling to St. John’s, where the old ice hunter would live out his final days. This book grew from that encounter and stands alone as the defining tale of the Bonavista Bay men who were left to die on the ice.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781771173285
General Note
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Includes index.
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