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The Wreck of the Mary Deare

Book ID
126907656
Publisher
Random House Inc
Year
1956
Tongue
English
Weight
5 MB
Category
Standards
ISBN
033034241X

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✦ Synopsis

They dismissed the Mary Deare as "a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap". For forty years, this 6,000-ton freighter had tramped the seas, suffered shipwreck twice, and been torpedoed three times in two world wars. Then one March night, battered, bruised, and empty, she emerged from severe Biscay gales into the English Channel — and into the newspaper headlines. Here was a ship of mystery and tragedy…in one of the greatest sea stories of all time.

✦ Subjects

Морские приключения

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