Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: VG Jacket Condition: Good Edition: First Edition Size: 8vo Publisher: London Odhams Press 1961
Seller ID: 900892
304pp. Dj worn at edges. How did they happen? Whom did they affect? What were their consequences? Twenty great calamities ranging over more than six centuries. Includes chapters on The Black Death; Krakatoa Eruption; The Great Irish Famine; Gresford Mine Disaster; Pearl Harbour; Sinking of the Titanic; Loss of the R101; Captain Scott Epic; The Dreyfus Tragedy; Munich Air Disaster etc.
