With over 150 photos, many full page and of historical, national, and international importance, this book captures on film wrecks and crashes of all kinds: air, highway, railway, and water as well as accidents involving trucks, buses, cars, light planes, jetliners, seaplanes, freight trains, and ships. European wrecks, Asian wrecks, and American wrecks are also well represented. This book adds to the intriguing iconography of travel accidents introduced by the first volume, Smashups. You are invited here to pore over the photographs and captions and experience the thrill of danger in the comfort and safety of your own home.[AuthorName]By Robert Reed[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]Robert Reed is an adjunct professor of English at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Reed has written earlier books about train wrecks, streamline industrial design, the New York City elevated railroad system, and 19th-century Washington, DC.[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]182 b/w photos[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Travel Mishaps and Calamities[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]182 b/w photos[/ColorPattern]

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A brand new psychological thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden!
The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed.
Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her nextmove. But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard.
She never arrives at her destination.
Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she’s made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.
But something isn’t right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize sheis in grave danger.This safe haven isn’t what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.
And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself – and her unborn child.
A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden delivers a snowbound thriller that will chill you to the bone.