The Resource Melancholy accidents : three centuries of stray bullets and bad luck, Peter Manseau
Melancholy accidents : three centuries of stray bullets and bad luck, Peter Manseau
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- Summary
- It came as a surprising discovery when, while conducting research that involved reading colonial-era newspapers, acclaimed writer Peter Manseau stumbled upon one report after another of “melancholy accidents”?instances of local people accidentally discharging firearms to disastrous results. Usually, they were brief items, with the concision of dark poetry?hunting accidents, neighbor shooting neighbor, father shooting son. Dark as they were, they were also often bizarre and fascinating?such as the case of one farmer who, trying out his new musket, shot it at his barn, hitting a door hinge that split the musket ball in two, with each half ricochetting off to hit a different, distant person, each of whom was a doctor. In Melancholy Accidents, Manseau collects and annotates a wide-ranging assortment of these woebegone and oddly intimate reports, with numerous illustrations, photos, and visuals from original period newspapers. It makes for a wholly unique contribution to the ongoing consideration of?and the recent heated discussion about?the historic place of firearms in American society
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- eng
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- 9781612195070
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- Melancholy accidents
- Title remainder
- three centuries of stray bullets and bad luck
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- Peter Manseau
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It came as a surprising discovery when, while conducting research that involved reading colonial-era newspapers, acclaimed writer Peter Manseau stumbled upon one report after another of “melancholy accidents”?instances of local people accidentally discharging firearms to disastrous results. Usually, they were brief items, with the concision of dark poetry?hunting accidents, neighbor shooting neighbor, father shooting son. Dark as they were, they were also often bizarre and fascinating?such as the case of one farmer who, trying out his new musket, shot it at his barn, hitting a door hinge that split the musket ball in two, with each half ricochetting off to hit a different, distant person, each of whom was a doctor. In Melancholy Accidents, Manseau collects and annotates a wide-ranging assortment of these woebegone and oddly intimate reports, with numerous illustrations, photos, and visuals from original period newspapers. It makes for a wholly unique contribution to the ongoing consideration of?and the recent heated discussion about?the historic place of firearms in American society
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- Manseau, Peter
- Dewey number
- 363.33
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- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RA772.F57
- LC item number
- M36 2016eb
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- non fiction
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