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Olivier, Clint

 
9781475223125: Last Dance of the Vestris: With a foreword by Commodore Ronald W. Warwick
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ISBN 10 : 1475223129 ISBN 13 : 9781475223125
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

One of the biggest mysteries of 20th century shipping is solved, at last. In November 1928, more than a hundred passengers were looking forward to a pleasant voyage from New York City to South America when their ship, the overloaded and leaky S.S. Vestris steamed into a massive storm. On the second night out, two giant waves pounded the liner and inflicted a wound from which she would never recover. Within hours, the Vestris was on her way to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, leaving behind a debris field teeming with heroes, cowards, the living and the dead. News of the disaster occupied front pages for weeks, but in the ensuing decades, the Vestris and her passengers were forgotten by history. Having taken place a year before the Crash of 1929 and a decade before the Second World War, The sinking was overshadowed by much larger news events and ignored by historians - until now. Written in the spirit of Walter Lord's classic "A Night to Remember," "Last Dance of the Vestris" is the gripping true story of the fateful last voyage of a once-grand British liner and the harrowing experiences of the men, women and children who struggled to survive her sinking.

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À propos de l'auteur

Clint Olivier is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in print and on television. Olivier made his first transatlantic crossing aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 in 2008 and chronicled the voyage for Fox affiliate KMPH. Other assignments have taken him everywhere from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah to California's Mojave Desert for the Landing of Space Shuttle Discovery. He writes from Fresno, California.

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1475223129
ISBN 13 
9781475223125
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
204
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