Bibliograph

Adrift, a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic - and the one who lived to tell about it, Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou

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Adrift, a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic - and the one who lived to tell about it, Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index

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contains biographical information

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Adrift

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou

Sub title

a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic - and the one who lived to tell about it

Summary

The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Hitting an iceberg, five lifeboats were lowered, but only one person would survive: Thomas W. Nye. This is his story. Using Nye's journal and his later newspaper accounts, ship's logs, assorted diaries and family archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold Atlantic sea. Adrift brings readers to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and every desperate act is a potential life saver or life taker

Target audience

adult

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