Author: John Melady. Published by Dundurn Press, Toronto, ON., 1997, 1st Edition. FLAT SIGNED by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book and Like New Condition Unclipped Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inch, 217 pages. Please note: Of significance, there is a hand-written note inside the front cover as to the 1st family connection to this author.
HEARTBREAK AND HEROISM, is about some of the most dramatic search-and-rescue operations in Canada. Whether the action is on the heaving deck of a sinking ship off the Newfoundland coast, within the incredibly confining walls of a power plant in Ontario, or high on a cliff face on a British Columbia mountain, each of these stories is exciting, memorable, and true.
We read of the heartbreaking last days of an Anglican missionary fighting for his life in a lonely Arctic outpost. Another chapter relays a dramatic rooftop rescue in New Brunswick. We meet people who are saved from floods, fires, plane crashes, earth movements, and violent storms. No less are the stories of the sometimes unexpected and tragic losses of the rescuers. Because Canada is so vast, Search and Rescue capability has to span the nation, and extend from sea to sea to sea. No other country has done what we have done. Heartbreak and Heroism is popular history at its most exciting, and these accounts of courage, loyalty, perseverance, and sacrifice that knows no bounds.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Melady is a Canadian non-fiction author from Seaforth, Ontario Canada. A former high school vice-principal in Trenton, Ontario, he writes primarily about 19th and 20th century Canadian history with a special focus on acts exhibiting courage.
For more info on Canada's Famous (and rightly so!) Military Search and Rescue Teams, please see: Search and Rescue - Royal Canadian Air Force - Canada.ca
1st Edition Hardcover & Signed by Author
ISBN: 9780550222873
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