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The Edge of Yesterday: Sea Disasters of Nova ScotiaRobert C. Parsons$19.95 Order this book from:
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Along the edge of the eastern shores of North America, ships and sailors fought many gripping battles. In these conflicts and clashes with nature, often against a backdrop of storm and rock, wind and tide, our sailors have struggled to survive. The elements of nature often drove them and their sturdy ships onto a proving ground where the end result depended on skill, endurance and just plain luck.
The Edge of Yesterday contains the unique stories of our hardy ancestors - those who challenged and fought the unforgiving North Atlantic Ocean. Here are the tales of strange occurrences within the realm of tragedy and triumph - of survival, courage and indomitable will to prevail in the face of danger.
Explore with Robert Parsons in The Edge of Yesterday the many mysteries and heart-breaking marine disasters that have fascinated people for years. Stories in this collection go beyond the ships to feature the towns, the people and the lives touched by hardship and heroism.
Excerpts from The Edge of Yesterday:
Tragedy at Tiverton:
In the blinding snowstorm visibility was limited to a few feet. Even the spars of the two wrecked ships failed to show against the wintry sky. Fishermen from Whale Cove, Tiddville and Tiverton, although standing about five hundred feet away from the two stranded ships, could do nothing. They were helpless in the storm and the mountainous seas that pounded western Nova Scotia on the cold night of Saturday, January 25, 1930.Disaster at Nauset Beach:
As if in stark contrast to the cold and terrible conditions for the seven on the stranded ship, on shore where several men stood watching the wreck, the sun was breaking through the clouds although the wind was high. The wave-swept vessel, with spars dragging in the churning water and only the stump of a foremast standing, would soon break into pieces.
Help was on the way, but would it reach in time? The life guards of the Old Harbour and Nauset stations dragged their beach guns down to the scene and fired two lines across the Montclair. Success! A line with a breeches buoy had reached the wreck.
The son of a sea cook, born on the edge of the ocean, Robert Parsons has been reading, researching and writing about ships and wrecks for fifteen years. His articles and stories have been published locally and nationally in Legion Magazine, Reader's Digest and The Evening Telegram, as well as in his many books of shipwrecks and sea stories. Now, as a retired educator, Parsons continues to research and write.
Also by the author: Wrecked and Ruined: True Sea Disasters from the Eastern Edge, Shipwrecks of New Brunswick, Ocean of Storms, Sea of Disaster and In Peril On The Sea: Nova Scotian Shipwrecks.