Greycliffe. Stolen Lives
Brew Steve
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Navarine
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Description: 211 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.
Publishers Description: Sydney Harbour’s greatest maritime disaster occurred on 3 November 1927, when the Royal Mail Steamer Tahiti collided with the Watsons Bay-bound ferry Greycliffe off Bradleys Head. The tragedy shocked Sydneysiders for its unsurpassed violence and dispassionate choice of victims; in mere seconds, forty people, aged from just two to 81, were swept to their deaths, whilst dozens more were injured.Greycliffe; Stolen Lives, by author Steve Brew, is the first comprehensive study of the tragedy. More than just a definitive documentary, the lives of the people involved – those who survived and those who did not – are studied at length.Three trials and an appeal have failed to dispel controversy about who was at fault; contemporary accounts still disagree, even on basic facts. Taking advantage of unutilised records and previously unpublished material, the true story is unearthed and conclusions are drawn which challenge long-held misconceptions.
ISBN: 9780975133101
(222750)
