DESPERATE HOURS: The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria.
by Goldstein, Richard
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 047138934X
- ISBN 13
- 9780471389347
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About This Item
New York:: John Wiley & Sons, , (2001). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Definitive history of the maritime disaster caused by the collision of the ocean liner Andrea Doria with the Swedish liner Stockholm in the fog 1956 off the island of Nantucket on the Massachusetts coast. In the eleven hours before the ship sunk, 1700 people were rescued. The ill-fated voyage is recreated using interviews, court documents, memoirs and this book presents technical findings that shed new light on the causes of the disaster. Photographs, sources, index.viii, 294 pp.
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- Title
- DESPERATE HOURS: The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria.
- Author
- Goldstein, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 047138934X
- ISBN 13
- 9780471389347
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2001)
- Keywords
- travel, exploration, new england, nantucket, ocean liners, disaster,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sailing, boats, ships and the sea;
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