The Rescuer
by Maas, Peter
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Wichita, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Ex-library book has usual markings, stamps, stickers, writing, card holder. DJ has some bumping, rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. This is the story of a man and a ship. He was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy but the ship was not his command. Yet on May 23, 1939, it seemed as if all this man’s vision, doggedness and life’s work had been shaped directly toward that place and that moment when the submarine “Squalus” fell 243 feet to the bottom of the sea, trapping fifty-nine men within her. He was Charles Bowers Momsen, 43, an Annapolis graduate who entered the submarine service in 1921 and for years had been a thorn in the flesh of the Navy establishment. Single-mindedly, and sometimes single-handedly, he had pioneered whatever submarine rescue devices the Navy now had, including the famous “Momsen Lung.” B3.
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- Seller
- Better Bindings (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1525
- Title
- The Rescuer
- Author
- Maas, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- 239
- Size
- 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ex-library;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....