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Looking For Lockerbie
Melissa Chessher Lawrence Mason Jr.
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Description for Looking For Lockerbie
Hardcover. Through photography and personal vignettes, this title introduces the world to some of Lockerbie's most engaging personalities and places: the last milk delivery man; its boy racers; the cheese factory; a local model; the high school and one of the area's few remaining rural schools; a Tibetan Buddhist monastery; and, a Burns supper. Editor(s): Mason, Lawrence, Jr.; Chessher, Melissa. Num Pages: 248 pages, 242 illustrations, 232 colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; AJC; JPWL2; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 312 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1532.
For most Americans, the words “Lockerbie, Scotland” evoke one image: the iconic photograph of the battered nose cone of a Pan Am jumbo jet surrounded by bodies, investigators, and debris on a lonely hillside. For members of the Syracuse University community, the words represent the loss of 35 students, who died returning from a semester abroad when their jet exploded over Lockerbie. The terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988, killed all 259 people aboard, plus 11 Lockerbie residents, in a tragedy that remained the deadliest terror attack on U.S. citizens until 9/11. The event forever ... Read more
For most Americans, the words “Lockerbie, Scotland” evoke one image: the iconic photograph of the battered nose cone of a Pan Am jumbo jet surrounded by bodies, investigators, and debris on a lonely hillside. For members of the Syracuse University community, the words represent the loss of 35 students, who died returning from a semester abroad when their jet exploded over Lockerbie. The terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988, killed all 259 people aboard, plus 11 Lockerbie residents, in a tragedy that remained the deadliest terror attack on U.S. citizens until 9/11. The event forever ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815681526
SKU
V9780815681526
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Ref
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About Melissa Chessher Lawrence Mason Jr.
Dr. Lawrence Mason, Jr. is Professor of visual & interactive communications in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He has completed a wide variety of photographic freelance assignments for publications such as The New York Times and U.S. News and World Report. Associate Professor Melissa Chessher is a freelance writer and former magazine editor. She serves ... Read more
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