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

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Each and every year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fishermen sailed out “to the ice” to hunt seals in the hope of a couple of pennies in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John’s. The year 1914 witnessed the worst in the long line of tragedies that were a part of their harsh way of living.
            For two long days and nights a party of seal hunters—132 men—were left stranded on an icefield floating in the North Atlantic in winter. They were thinly dressed, with almost no food, and with no hope of shelter against the snow or the constant, bitter winds. To live to tell the tale they had to keep moving, all the time moving. Those who lay down to rest died.
            This is an implausible story of bungling and greed, of suffering and heroism. With the help of compelling, recent photographs, the book paints an unforgettable portrait of the bloody
trade of seal hunting a number of the icefields when ships—and men—were expendable.

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