Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914

Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fishermen sailed out "to the ice" to hunt seals in the hope of a few pennies in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's. The year 1914 witnessed the worst in a long line of tragedies that were part of their way of life. For two long days and freezing nights a party of seal hunters - one hundred thirty-two men - were left stranded on a ice field floating in the North Atlantic in winter. They were thinly dressed, with almost no food, and with no hope of shelter on the ice against the snow or the constant, bitter winds. To survive, they had to keep moving, always moving. Those who lay down to rest died.... Publisher's description

OCLC: 17586555