Wreck and sinking of the Titanic - the ocean's greatest disaster - a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than (14756906266)

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Title: Wreck and sinking of the Titanic : the ocean's greatest disaster : a graphic and thrilling account of the sinking of the greatest floating palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 souls : giving exciting excape from death and acts of heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by the survivors ; edited by Marshall Everett
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Everett, Marshall
Subjects: Titanic (Steamship) Shipwrecks
Publisher: (S.l. : L.H. Walter)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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nst which the ingenuity of navigators is absolutelypowerless, and this danger is formed by the vast ice-bergs—jSoating ice-prairies, some of them—^which everymonth in the year, but more particularly in the wintermonths, are sent in shoals from the Arctic and the Ant-arctic regions to float down the currents of the oceanuntil they are finally melted and mingled with warmwaters. A brief account of the origin of these marinemonsters, their action and the manifold dangers theypresent to sailors, will be of interest. Greenland is the breeder of the iceberg for thenorthern seas. Greenland is a mysterious continent onwhich no vegetable life can endure. Its exact limitshave never yet been traced, but is known to be compara-tively flat, though covered to immense depths by snowand ice. This snow and ice forms constantly throughoutthe year, and has so formed since prehistoric times. Itheaps up so that the surface of Greenland may beroughly compared to a vast hill. The enormous weight 111 112
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