The Sea Shall Embrace Them by David W Shaw

The Sea Shall Embrace Them by David W Shaw

The 1854 collision at sea between the American ship Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the most harrowing events in maritime history. David W. Shaw has based this fascinating account on the firsthand testimony of the few who survived the wreck, including the Arctic's heroic captain, James C. Luce, who was forced to fight his mutinous crew as they took the lifeboats and left hundreds of passengers to suffer a cruel and painful death. Not only did 400 people -- including Luce's own frail son -- die by daybreak, but the wreck also ended the domination of the seas by the American maritime fleet for the rest of the nineteenth century.
Utterly compelling, The Sea Shall Embrace Them is a stirring slice of heretofore little-known American history. Beautifully written, it puts the reader on deck as a ship full of men, women, and children do battle both with a mighty ocean and with their own baser instincts

DAVID W. SHAW is a feature writer and columnist for Offshore magazine and The Star-Ledger, and has written more than 700 articles in other regional, national, and international publications, including Sail, Cruising World, Lakeland Boating, Hudson Valley Magazine, and Adirondack Life. He is the author of Daring the Sea and The Cheapskate's Guide to Weddings and Honeymoons.

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ISBN 13	9780743222174
ISBN 10	0743222172
Title	The Sea Shall Embrace Them
Author	David W Shaw
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2002-05-07
Number of pages	241
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