Research Catalog

Title

Any strange news : true stories behind the headlines / Robert C. Parsons.

Author

Parsons, Robert Charles, 1944-

Publication

Grand Bank, Nfld. : Books of the Sea, 2006.

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Details

Description

x, 229 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Shipwrecks > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Seafaring life > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Ships > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Navigation > Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Naufrages > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Vie en mer > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Navires > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Navigation > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire
• Newfoundland and Labrador > History
• Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Author's Notes and Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Whitechapel Horrors... Florence Collides off Cape Race -- Chapter 2. The Mohawk Minstrels... Kipling, Abandoned at Sea -- Chapter 3. The Interesting Animals... Juanita's Captain Fought the Dogs -- Chapter 4. A Brush With Bodies of Titanic... Riseover's Raft -- Chapter 5. The Dog Hero of Bareneed... Lucania Meets the Enemy -- Chapter 6. The Gold Rush and the Fool's Rush... Kyle Finds "Old Glory" -- Chapter 7. A Tale of the Tidal Wave... Fayal Takes the Wrong Run -- Chapter 8. The Tragic Death of Ranger Greene... Garland Has Gone Down -- Chapter 9. A Movie Star is 'Held Over'... Evelyn Evans' Last Trip -- Newfoundland's Ten Worst Shipping Disasters -- Other Marine Disasters -- Event Index.

ISBN

• 0978111400 (pbk.)
• 9780978111403 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 70062628
• SCSB-11131453

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library