The Serpent's Coil: An Incredible Story of Hurricane-Battered Ships and the Heroic Men Who Fought to Save Them - Softcover

Mowat, Farley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585742872 ISBN 13: 9781585742875

Publisher: Lyons Pr, 2001

Synopsis

The 1948 rescue of the Liberty ship Leicester is chronicled in vivid detail--a story that takes readers through two hurricanes before the crew is finally rescued. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author

Farley Mowat's nearly forty books have sold millions of copies and have been published in more than twenty languages. His books include Never Cry Wolf, Sea of Slaughter, The Farfarers, People of the Deer, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, The Desperate People, and Ordeal by Ice. He lives in Ontario, Canada.

From the Back Cover

The Serpent's Coil recounts the amazing story of the Liberty ship Leicester, which sailed for New York from England in the summer of 1948, ran into a hurricane (with the loss of six lives), and was abandoned in mid-Atlantic. It also tells of the deep-sea tug Foundation Josephine, which tracked the derelict Leicester over a vast distance, found her listing severely, and towed her another thousand miles to Bermuda, where both ships ran into yet another hurricane.Farley Mowat, whom The New York Times has called "a master storyteller," expertly weaves together the different threads of his tale as he traces the hurricane from its origins to its fateful meeting with the Leicester, describes what it's like to endure a hurricane, and shows the difficult nature of the Josephine's salvage mission. A predecessor of The Perfect Storm, The Serpent's Coil is a classic of the sea. (6 X 9, 192 pages, map, illustrations)

Reviews

Released in 1958 and 1961, respectively, these books are Mowat's paean to tugboats of the North Atlantic. Though often overlooked, these vessels have rescued thousands of stranded ships from watery graves. Mowat proves that being a member of a deep-water tug crew is one of the most dangerous jobs a sailor can have during peacetime.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Lyons Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585742872
• ISBN 13: 9781585742875
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 189