1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391572603316

Autore

Digges Leonard <d. 1571?>

Titolo

A prognostication euerlasting of right good effect [[electronic resource] ] : frutefully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather, by the sunne, moone, starre, cometes, raynbowe, thunder, cloudes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspectes of planetes, with a briefe iudgement for euer of plentie, lacke, sicknesse, dearth, vvarres &c. opening also manye natural causes worthy to be knowen To these and other nowe at the last are adioyned diuers general pleasant tables, with many compendious rules, easye to be had in memory, manifolde wayes profitable to all manner menne of vnderstandynge: published by Leonarde Digges, gentleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : In Fletestrete by Thomas Marshe nere to S. Dunstons Churche, Anno. 1567

Descrizione fisica

[2], 27, [1], 28-41, [1] leaves : ill

Soggetti

Meteorology

Astrology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1555 as: A prognostication of right good effect.

2 states are known; British Library copy has "The generall Kalendar" and "Ianuary hath eyght such dayes" on K1r. Variant has "The genenerall [sic] Kalendar" and "Ianuary hath eyght such daies" on K1r.

Identified as STC 6863 on UMI microfilm reel 496.

Formerly STC 6863.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822859903321

Autore

Saunders Aaron

Titolo

Stranded : Alaska's worst maritime disaster nearly happened twice / / Aaron Saunders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario : , : Dundurn, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4597-3156-5

1-4597-3155-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

909.09164/34

Soggetti

Shipwrecks - Alaska - Pacific Coast

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The rush to Skagway -- "A slow trip through Alaska" - Princess Sophia -- The Star Princess sets sail -- The storm - Princess Sophia -- The turn - Star Princess -- The accident - Princess Sophia -- The turn - Star Princess -- Stranded on the rocks - Princess Sophia -- Beaching the Star Princess -- Those last minutes - Princess Sophia -- Aftermath - chaos and confusion -- Star Princess sails on.

Sommario/riassunto

"The sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia was Alaska's worst maritime disaster--until it nearly happened again. In 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia left Skagway, Alaska, on her last trip of the season to Vancouver. She never made it. Battered by a raging snowstorm and sent dangerously off-course, she ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef, a rocky shoal in Lynn Canal, North America's deepest and longest fjord. She would spend two days high and dry on the reef, with rescue ships standing by, unable to help, before she finally slid to her watery grave. Seventy-six years later, another ship--the modern Star Princess--finds herself off-course in Lynn Canal, and history nearly repeats itself. Weaving together events past and present, Aaron Saunders tells the story of two very different ships that set sail from Skagway at opposite ends of the century. Their common bond--the unassuming and often treacherous stretch of water known as Lynn Canal."--