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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Kinder |
ISBN: | 0871134640 9780871134646 |
OCLC Number: | 698757208 |
Awards: | Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 1999 |
Description: | 775 pages (large print) : plate, illustrations ; 25 cm |
Responsibility: | Gary Kinder. |
Abstract:
In September 1857, the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, foundered in a hurricane and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. Over four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of California gold were lost. It was the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, a tragedy that remained lost in legend for over a century.
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