Author: LARSON, ERIK
Title: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Description: New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. Hardcover. ISBN: 0307408868. A third printing of Erik Larson's account of the last voyage of the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, from New York to Liverpool. Though World War I was raging, the ship's captain, William Thomas Turner, had faith that the German U-boats would not attack a passenger ship. However, they did and the ship was sunk off the coast of Ireland, resulting in loss of life of 1,198 of the 1,962 souls aboard the ship. With maps of southwest Great Britain to endpapers, as well as another map of Britain and environs. --- In black paper-covered boards with spine titling in gilt. Jacket with image of a ship's wake to cover. --- With reddish soiled spot to front free endpaper otherwise tightly-bound, sound copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($28.00/$32.50) lacks apparent damages and is wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (16), 430 pages. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0307408868 >>History >>World War I
Title: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Description: New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. Hardcover. ISBN: 0307408868. A third printing of Erik Larson's account of the last voyage of the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, from New York to Liverpool. Though World War I was raging, the ship's captain, William Thomas Turner, had faith that the German U-boats would not attack a passenger ship. However, they did and the ship was sunk off the coast of Ireland, resulting in loss of life of 1,198 of the 1,962 souls aboard the ship. With maps of southwest Great Britain to endpapers, as well as another map of Britain and environs. --- In black paper-covered boards with spine titling in gilt. Jacket with image of a ship's wake to cover. --- With reddish soiled spot to front free endpaper otherwise tightly-bound, sound copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($28.00/$32.50) lacks apparent damages and is wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (16), 430 pages. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0307408868 >>History >>World War I
Price: US$ 14.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86011
- Book number: 86011