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This story explores the heroic efforts
of those who answered the SOS, at first to save and
later to recover the bodies of those lost. The Final
Voyage of the Princess Sophia recreates the human drama
that unfolded off Vanderbuilt Reef in the Lynn Canal
between Skagway and Juneau, Alaska in 1918.
Seasoned writers of West Coast history
and contemporary issues, O'Keefe and Macdonald tackle
questions that still linger eighty years later. Was
the resulting inquiry a bureaucratic whitewash? Was
the real cause of the wreck "peril at sea?"
With such a death toll, why was so little ever written
about the sinking? Was it beacuse, unlike the Titanic,
there were no survivors of the Princess Sophia?
Co-published with Herritage House,
Vancouver, B.C.
Featuring:
Non-fiction
67 photos and maps
ISBN 978-0-938665-61-8
192 Pages
$16.95
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