The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche - Rilegato

Krist, Gary

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ISBN 10: 0805077057 ISBN 13: 9780805077056

Casa editrice: Henry Holt & Co, 2007

Riassunto

A detailed chronicle of one of America's worst rail disasters describes how, in 1910, two trainloads of people, trapped in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State by a fierce February blizzard, were swept into a mountain ravine by the nation's deadliest avalanche.

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L'autore

Gary Krist is the prizewinning author of the novels Bad Chemistry, Chaos Theory, and Extravagance, and of two short-story collections, The Garden State and Bone by Bone. His stories, articles, and travel pieces have been featured in noteworthy magazines, including National Geographic Traveler, GQ, and Esquire. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and daughter.

Product Description

An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 315 pages; Description: xii, 315 p. , 16 p. Of plates : ill. , maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297) and index. Subjects: Great Northern Railway Company (U. S. ) --History --Avalanches --Washington (State) --Railroad accidents --Washington (State) --20th century. Summary: In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped, but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned without escape, their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men, led by the line's legendarily courageous superintendent, James O'Neill, worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains. But the storm was unrelenting, and to the passenger's great anxiety, the railcars, their only shelter, were parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. As the days passed, food and coal supplies dwindled. Panic and rage set in as snow accumulated deeper and deeper on the cliffs overhanging the trains. Finally, just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred: the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled from the high pinnacles, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside. Centered on the astonishing spectacle of our nation's deadliest avalanche, The White Cascade is the masterfully told story of a supremely dramatic and never-before-documented American tragedy. An adventure saga filled with colorful and engaging history, this is epic narrative storytelling at its finest.

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• Editore: Henry Holt & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0805077057
• ISBN 13: 9780805077056
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 315