Search Results: Disasters and Rescue from The Owl at the Bridge

First Edition. Hard Cover. New York : Random House, c1993.viii, 246 p. : illus., 24 cm.

The Age, Adelaide, 1983. Soft Cover. "The Ash Wednesday bushfires which swept through a score of towns and villages in southern Victoria in the middle days of February were the worst natural catastrophe to strike the State for more than 50 years. ...As the fires flared across the State, reporters and photographers of "The Age" fanned out to report the drama, the tragedy [over 70 deaths; over 1700 houses burnt; hundreds of thousands of sheep & cattle], and the pathos of it all." "All Profits for the Victorian and South Australian Bushfire Appeals." [96] p., b/w & color photos, 27.5 cm.; color pictorial wraps; minor wear; good+. 34547.

Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1958. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. 'In telling the story of the greatest disaster in modern Alpine history, Wechsberg reveals much that until recently was unknown about the ways of snow.' Story of the double avalanches of January 11, 1954 in the Austrian Grosswalsertal which decimated the village of Blons. vi, [5], 253, [1] p., maps by Rafael Palacios; 21.5 cm.; color pictorial dj a bit soiled with minor chips, spine darkened; good+. WITH National Geographic vol. 162 no. 3, September 1982, with articles Avalanche! Winter's White Death; 'I'm OK, I'm Alive!; and Battling the Juggernaut, by David Cupp, photos by Cupp, Lanny Johnson & Andre Benier, on the Alpine Meadows avalanche in California, with map & diagrams. Two items. 30549.

Boston, E. Russell for the Author; facsimile reprint Yarmouthport, Mass., Parnassus Imprints [c1972]. Soft Cover. 16 p.; 19 cm. Title continues: "Barnabas Downs, Jun. who was among the number of those who escaped death on board the privateer brig Arnold, James Magee commander, which was cast away near Plymouth-Harbour, Dec. 26, 1778." "A facsimile of the 1786 edition. Introduction by Samuel J. Hough." "One thousand copies printed from the copy in the John Carter Brown Library... by the Meriden Gravure Company. Type set by The Steinhour Press." Facsimile of Evans 19612. Stock# 42,028x. Fine / new from publisher.

[Boston, Mass. : The New Haven R.R., 1939]. Soft Cover. 46 p., chiefly illus., 17.5 x 23 cm. Cover title. "On September 21, 1938, with flood waters already threatening.." New England was hit by a hurricane. This pamphlet issued by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company pictures the damage to its tracks and facilities and the enormous repair job, employing 5,000 men. Stock# 411,200. Vg/ paper.

NY, American Heritage Press [1969]. Hard Cover. 168 p., 15 illus., maps; 25 cm. "Diary of the hurricane of 1938... that struck the Northeast-- Long Island and New England-- without warning," killed 650 people and spread wide destruction. ISBN (10): 0828100209. Stock#46690. Good+, ex library with blank front flyleaf torn out / dj protected in plastic.

NY, Norton, c1997. Hard Cover. xii, 227 p., map, 21.5 cm. A wonderful true story of swordfishing and the social life and customs of the fisher-folk in Gloucester, Massachusetts. A boat caught in Hurricane Grace (1991) was trapped and sunk. First edition. Vg, gift inscription/ dj vg. Copy 2, third printing, vg/ dj vg, no inscription. Stock#40573x.

St. Louis, I. Haas, 1896. Soft Cover. Giving a Graphic and Accurate Resume of its Deadly and Destructive work, by Means of Pen and Camera. Only Authentic Edition." 1, 1-4, [42] p., illus., 20 x 25 cm. Four pages of text and 42 pages, each with a photographic illustration published shortly after the tornado, show the devastating power of the wind. Paper wraps soiled & worn, 1" tear from top edge through entire pamphlet; good+. 101510.

NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, ©1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. xvi, 507 p., illus.; 24 cm. Chronicles the final voyage of the SS Central America as it sank off the Carolina coast in 1857, and explains the recent technology used to recover the ship and the twenty-one tons of gold that sank with it. ISBN (10): 0871134640. Stock#46746. Vg / dj vg.

NY, Atlantic Monthly Press [1998]. 'Uncorrected Manuscript'. Soft Cover. 549 p., 23 cm. 'In September 1857, the SS 'Central America', carrying miners and their wealth from the gold fields of California, sank in a hurricane two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. In September 1989, after years of intensive efforts, followed by one of the deepest recovery operations ever attempted-- the ship was one-and-a-half miles down on the ocean floor-- the Columbus-America Discovery Group sailed into Norfolk with one of the greatest treasure[s] ever found.' This is a fascinating account of the shipwreck itself, and of the development of equipment necessary for its recovery. SBN 0349110999. Stock#31937. Vg / color pictorial paper covers.

Coward-McCann, NY [1946]. Hard Cover. Book club dot on rear cover. 243 p.; blue cloth covers stamped in gold; slight wear, front cover has tiny spots; good+. With BOMC flyer. Novel of a September New England hurricane from several points of view. Stock#101148. 20th century American literature, fiction.

"First Back Bay paperback edition, August 2004." "...intense human drama that unfolded as an unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions conspired to bring to New England a tropical cyclone so devastating that it would require the entire coastline of the Northeast to be remapped. Drawing upon newspaper accounts, the personal testimony of survivors, and archival footage, R. A. Scotti follows the trajectory of that awful wind-- and recovers for posterity the lost stories of those whose lives, families, and communities were indelibly changed." Paperback; 280, 10, [2] pages, photos; 21 cm. Owner blindstamp on title-page; slight wear; Good+. Stock#763/h.

Publishing Works, Exeter, NH, 2006. 'Second Printing'. Hard Cover. 166 p., color illus. & photos, maps; 26 cm. Following torrential rains in early October 2005, Warren Brook overflowed, destroying its twelve-foot-diameter, 110-foot-long culvert and roaring downhill through the center of Alstead Village. This is the story of the gathering waters, the flood, and the people's recovery, written and photographed by the people themselves. Color pictorial dj; fine, gift quality. stock#44882x.

NY, Simon & Schuster, c2002. An historical record of the events of September 11 and what was learned from them, culled from CBS News archives; includes a full-length DVD of video footage. ISBN(10) 0743241908. Hard Cover. 143 pages, illus.; 24 cm. plus DVD, unopened in protective flap. VG, near mint / dj vg. Stock#46545.

[Secaucus, N.J.] : Chartwell Books, [c1976]. Hard Cover. 128 p., illus., 30.5 cm. An anthology of 30 20th Century Disasters from the San Francisco Earthquake, the Titanic sinking, The Crystal Palace fire, the 1929 Stock Market crash (?!), trains, planes, floods, illustrated with newspaper stories and grainy photographs. Stock# 40,652. Good+, orange cloth covers sun stained..