Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It

by Brian Murphy

Book Overview

A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death

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. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306902001
• ISBN13: 9780306902000
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"