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Great Cape Breton Shipwreck Stories

Editor: Ronald Caplan
Publisher: Breton Books
SKU: BB0120

$18.95

One lasting value of any shipwreck is the marvelous stories that come out of those terrible events. Ronald Caplan has collected a terrific batch of stories ranging from the gut-wrenching 1761 winter trek of survivors of the Auguste to John Angus Fraser’s hilarious 1955 adventures aboard the abandoned Kismet II. Walter Boudreau delivers his harrowing account adrift in a lifeboat while his companions died around him, and survivors of the Marine Atlantic Caribou ferry tell of being torpedoed by a Nazi submarine between Cape Breton and Newfoundland.

Filled with courage and humanity–stories of people determined to live, told by people determined to keep these stories alive.

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One lasting value of any shipwreck is the marvelous stories that come out of those terrible events. Ronald Caplan has collected a terrific batch of stories ranging from the gut-wrenching 1761 winter trek of survivors of the Auguste to John Angus Fraser’s hilarious 1955 adventures aboard the abandoned Kismet II. Walter Boudreau delivers his harrowing account adrift in a lifeboat while his companions died around him, and survivors of the Marine Atlantic Caribou ferry tell of being torpedoed by a Nazi submarine between Cape Breton and Newfoundland.

Filled with courage and humanity–stories of people determined to live, told by people determined to keep these stories alive.

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Weight318 g
Dimensions6 × 9 in
Awards this title has won
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ACTIVE TITLE

Binding

Paperback

Editor

Language

Date Published

September 11 2017

Publisher

Page Count

180

No of Pages

180

ISBN

9781926908052