Children of the Sea: The Story of the Eyemouth DisasterDundurn, 2001 - 258 pages Recounting the remarkable story of a village on the margins of the sea and at the edge of the country, this book describes how 180 men drowned in a single afternoon in Scotland’s worst fishing disaster 120 years ago, decimating the coastal community of Ey |
Contents
She is Called not Lucky | 27 |
Jacobites and Brethren | 47 |
Ministers Men Merchants and the Sea | 71 |
A Cultured Man in a Cultural Desert | 84 |
Dodges and Death and California Days | 101 |
The Gathering Storm | 115 |
The Battle Begins | 134 |
Pay no Tithe | 149 |
Pyrrhic Victory | 167 |
An Assured Future? | 180 |
The Pickit Men | 197 |
Common terms and phrases
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