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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster .
by Melissa Fay Greene
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0151005591
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005598
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About This Item
Harcourt, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Like New. Great book! Clean pages, no marks & slight shelf wear on dj. Amazon: On October 23, 1958, gases from deep within the earth shot skyward, causing entire floors of rock to rise instantly in a coal mine in Springhill, Nova Scotia, trapping 174 men underground. Seventy-five miners never made it out alive. Miraculou
Synopsis
The deepest coal mine in North America was notoriously unpredictable. One late October evening in 1958, it "bumped" - its rock floors heaving up and smashing into rock ceilings. A few miners staggered out, most of the 174 on shift did not. Nineteen men were trapped, plunged into darkness, hunger, thirst, and hallucination. As days and nights passed, the survivors began to hope for death by gas rather than from thirst. Above ground, journalists and families stood in despairing vigil, as rescuers brought out scores of the dead. The hope of finding life undergound faded and families made funeral preparations. Then, a miracle: Rescuers stumbled across a broken pipe leading to a cave of survivors, then a second group was discovered. A media circus followed. Ed Sullivan, then the state of Georgia, invited survivors to visit. Publicity, politics, and segregation sorted the men differently than they had ordered themselves. Underground, the one black survivor nursed a dying man; in Atlanta, Governor Marvin Griffin said: "I will not shake hands with a Negro." If every great writer has one tale of peril, heroism, and survival, Last Man Out is Melissa Fay Greene's. Using long-lost stories and interviews with survivors, Greene has reconstructed the drama of their struggle to stay alive
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- Bookseller
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09134
- Title
- Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster.
- Author
- Melissa Fay Greene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151005591
- ISBN 13
- 9780151005598
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2003
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