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The Fugitive's Son

Kemp, Bruce
The Fugitive's Son
When General William Tecumseh Sherman asks his old friend Frederick Douglass Macdonald to write to the widow of President Lincoln describing his service as a colored soldier in the army, Macdonald produces more than just letters. His correspondence and journal entries open a window onto an unseen side of the Underground Railroad and the Civil War. Son of a fugitive slave who escaped to British Canada, Macdonald was trained as a journalist and ...

CHF 28.90

Weather Bomb 1913

Kemp, Bruce
Weather Bomb 1913
In the dark hours of November 9th, 1913, death screamed across the Great Lakes in the guise of a rare, white hurricane. The storm brutalized the region for the following week. In its wake it left cities crippled by devastating snowfalls, mysteries that remain unsolved and the corpses of 256 men and women from twelve of the largest ships

CHF 24.90

Weather Bomb 1913

Kemp, Bruce
Weather Bomb 1913
On the night of November 9, in 1913, the greatest hurricane ever to sweep the Great Lakes roared across the fresh water seas sinking 12 big ships and killing more than 260 people. For the first time, author Bruce Kemp has pulled together a compelling tale of the storm with interviews of survivors, state-of-the-art meteorological computer modelling, the opinions of 21st century Great Lakes captains and painstaking research through the newspaper...

CHF 37.90