Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
by Edward T. O'Donnell | History | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0767909062 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0767909062 Global Overview for this book
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Picked this up off the giveaway table at an origami event hosted by the generous folks in Allentown.
I'd never heard of the General Slocum, but this was a fascinating read.
Until September 11, 2001, the burning of this steamboat was New York's worst disaster in terms of number of victims killed: over a thousand people, mostly from one Lutheran parish in "Little Germany" - apparently there's even a reference to it in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Much of the author's website for this book seems to have been taken down, but quite a bit of it, including the photo gallery and endnotes, can be found on the very useful Internet Archive/Wayback Machine. I found the photo in chapter 6 of the couple walking to the cemetery while the man carries his child's coffin under his arm particularly memorable.
I'd never heard of the General Slocum, but this was a fascinating read.
Until September 11, 2001, the burning of this steamboat was New York's worst disaster in terms of number of victims killed: over a thousand people, mostly from one Lutheran parish in "Little Germany" - apparently there's even a reference to it in James Joyce's Ulysses.
Much of the author's website for this book seems to have been taken down, but quite a bit of it, including the photo gallery and endnotes, can be found on the very useful Internet Archive/Wayback Machine. I found the photo in chapter 6 of the couple walking to the cemetery while the man carries his child's coffin under his arm particularly memorable.
This book went to lunch with the gals of TOC and didn't come home with me! I think it went to someone on the staff at Cactus.
Released for Secretariat's 2014 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge (week 29).
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Released for Secretariat's 2014 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge (week 29).
I'm so glad you've found this book!
Won't you please make a journal entry to let the book's previous readers know that it's safely in your hands? How did you find it? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?
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