Last Man Out: The Story Of The Springhill Mine Disaster ("New Unsold Copy!!!" - Stated First Edition/Stated First Print - F/VF with F/VF DJ)

by Melissa Fay Greene

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Harcourt, Orlando, FL (2003) HC w/ DJ, New Unsold Copy Stated First Edition/Stated First Print (Copyright page number series reads: A-K, jacket's back inner slap states: 0403, Copyright page Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data numbers read: TN806.C2G74 2003 363.11'0971611---dc21 20022155849), 8vo, 342 pages including Sources & Acknowledgments, End Notes, Bibliography, and Index; Book: F/VF - New, clean, tight and sound, crisp hinges, harvest-gold boards with dark-gray cloth spine and spine-turns, bright gilt lettering impressed to spine, bookstore label to front pastedown approximate 2-1/4"x1-1/2", elsewise nothing derogatory of note; Pages: F/VF - New, clean, white and secure, nothing derogatory of note; DJ: F/VF - New, clean and bright, one fingernail size and shaped tear to front at spine-turn approximate 1/4", elsewise nothing derogatory of note, not clipped, price still showing on front inner flap (not a remainder/not a book club ed./not a Library ed.) Synopsis: The scene was Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America that was notoriously unpredictable, the year was 1958, late one October, it "bumped" --- its rock floors heaving up and smashing into rock ceilings. A few men staggered out, most of the 174 men on the shift didn't, 19 men were trapped, plunged into darkness and hallucination. As days and nights passed, the surveyors began to hope for death by gas rather than by thirst. Above ground, journalists families kept a despairing vigil, as rescuers brought out scores of the dead. The hope of finding life underground faded and families began to make funeral preparations. Then, a miracle! Rescuers stumbled across a broken pipe leading to a cave containing survivors, then a second group was discovered. A media circus followed. The Ed Sullivan television show, then the state of Georgia invited them to visit. Publicity, politics, and segregation sorted the men differently than they had ordered themselves. Underground one black man nursed a dying white man; in Atlanta, Governor Marvin Griffin said, "I will not shake hands with a negro." If every great writer has one take of peril, heroism, and survival, Last Man Out, is Melissa Fay Greene's. Greene has intricately and penetratingly reconstructed the horrific drama of the trapped miner's struggle to stay alive, using long-lost stories and interviews. This is hair-rasing, true life, reading that will capture you from page one. This was Ms Greene's 3rd work.

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