Death on the Ice
Subtitle: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914
By: by Cassie Brown, with Harold Horwood.
Contributors: Horwood, Harold Andrew, 1923-
Edition: 1st Doubleday Canada Paperback ed. '74
Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Ltd; Doubleday
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada; Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780385050371
Copyright date: 1972 by Cassie Brown & Harold Horwood
Subjects: Sealing -- Newfoundland and Labrador
Description: An account of the bungling and greed that caused 120 men to be stranded for two days and two nights on an ice-field drifting in the Atlantic. Describes the harsh, bloody trade of seal hunting among the ice-fields - where ships and men are expendable.
Notes: ***Manufactured in Canada / Printed in Canada by Web Offset Publications / Other no. (OCoLC)747308771/*** / Photographs courtesy of : The Newfoundland Archive, Baine Johnston Company, the Kean family, the Tuff family, the Cecil Mouland family, William C. Rolls, and from Cassie Brown's private collection.