Death On The Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster Of 1914 by Harold Horwood, Cassie Brown

Death On The Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster Of 1914

Harold Horwood, Cassie Brown

256 pages first pub 1972 (view editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
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Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman 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 trage...

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