Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster

Greene, Melissa Fay

ISBN 10: 0151005591 / ISBN 13: 9780151005598

Edité par Harcourt, 2003

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VG hardcover in VG DJ - see actual image. Previous owner name on inside endpaper. 342 pps. Some photos. Story of mine disaster in Nova Scotia. History-Maritimes.

N° de réf. du vendeur A234-21

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
• Éditeur: Harcourt
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0151005591
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780151005598
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • History-Maritimes

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Synopsis

The deepest coal mine in North America was notoriously unpredictable. One late October evening in 1958, it "bumped" - its rock floors heaving up and smashing into rock ceilings. A few miners staggered out, most of the 174 on shift did not.

Nineteen men were trapped, plunged into darkness, hunger, thirst, and hallucination. As days and nights passed, the survivors began to hope for death by gas rather than from thirst. Above ground, journalists and families stood in despairing vigil, as rescuers brought out scores of the dead. The hope of finding life undergound faded and families made funeral preparations.

Then, a miracle: Rescuers stumbled across a broken pipe leading to a cave of survivors, then a second group was discovered.

A media circus followed. Ed Sullivan, then the state of Georgia, invited survivors to visit. Publicity, politics, and segregation sorted the men differently than they had ordered themselves. Underground, the one black survivor nursed a dying man; in Atlanta, Governor Marvin Griffin said: "I will not shake hands with a Negro."

If every great writer has one tale of peril, heroism, and survival, Last Man Out is Melissa Fay Greene's. Using long-lost stories and interviews with survivors, Greene has reconstructed the drama of their struggle to stay alive

À propos de l?auteur

Melissa Fay Greene's books, Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing, were National Book Award finalists, winning numerous other awards. Greene has written for the New Yorker, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Life. She lives in Atlanta.