Item #5484 Oil and Water. The Torrey Canyon Disaster. Edward COWAN.
Oil and Water. The Torrey Canyon Disaster

Oil and Water. The Torrey Canyon Disaster

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. ix, 241. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photography. Endpaper maps. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with light foxing to edges. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Fine / Good+. Item #5484

The Torrey Canyon, home port Los Angeles, wrecked on the southwest coast of England. At the time, she was the largest ship wrecked in maritime history, leaving an environmental disaster that reverberates as a warning today.

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