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The Gale of 1929: A True Story of Adventure on the High Seas

✍ Scribed by Collins, Gary

Publisher
Flanker Press
Year
2013
Tongue
en-US
Weight
661 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781771173094

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✦ Synopsis

On the night of November 29, 1929, eleven schooners set sail for home from the comfort and safety of St. John's harbour. They all headed north: directly into the teeth of a deadly hurricane. Here for the first time are the stories of the eleven schooners that were caught in the gale of 1929.

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### Amazon.com Review The unabridged audio version of Sebastian Junger's \_\_, read by Richard M. Davidson, moves in the same haunting fashion as the deadly storm referenced in the title. Opening slowly, the story lulls you with a false sense of calm, behind which looms an inexorable power. Almost