Women and Children Last by Charles Clark
The period saw a number of catastrophic shipboard fires, but that involving the New Zealand-bound emigrant ship Cospatrick was certainly the most destructive. When she burned and sank off the coast of Southern Africa in 1874, nearly 500 people lost their lives. There was a desperate battle to quench the fire, a huge death toll as the vessel was being abandoned, and acts of cannibalism in the one lifeboat that remained afloat.
'Women and Children Last is strikingly well writtenDetailed and precise without becoming tedious, wryly witty in places but never inhumane, Dunedin writer Charles R. Clark's prose has a poise and economy many of our fiction writers could learn from.' Sunday Star Times
Charles Clark began his working life as a merchant seaman in the British Merchant Navy and later became a research chemist, with a doctorate from the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is well equipped for this discussion of safety at sea. As an academic, he is the co-author of 90-100 publications in refereed international chemistry journals and three book chapters. He has worked at the Australian National University and the University of Otago.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781877372148 |
| ISBN 10 | 1877372145 |
| Title | Women and Children Last |
| Author | Charles Clark |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Otago University Press |
| Year published | 2006-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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