A Furnace Afloat
Subtitle: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile Voyage of Its Survivors
Publisher: Free Press
Published: September 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780743230377
Subjects: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc; Shipwrecks; History; Transportation; United States - 19th Century; History: World; Survival after airplane accide; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; History / General; General; Hornet (Clipper-ship); Pacific Ocean
First sentence: LATER, WHEN THE HEAT and thirst grew so torturous that his tongue swelled in his mouth; when his skin shriveled black and salt-water boils dotted it like smallpox; when Captain Mitchell complained of hearing strange music and the men in the bow stared at him in hunger; then and only then did Henry Ferguson recall his first glimpse of the Hornet and the drift ice crunching against her sides.