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Further Reading: Accident

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HMS Agamemnon by Henry Clifford, 1858. During the expedition to lay the first transatlantic ocean cable, severe storms snapped the cable, forcing the fleet to turn back.

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Wind, Sand, and Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Airship Mishaps: Terror in the Skies

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Space Madness: Trouble on the Mir

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Blundering Generals and Crazy Weather: The Screwups that Saved America

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The Worst Disaster in US Maritime History (that you’ve never heard of)

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Rubber Duckies & Friends: Lost Cargo & Understanding Ocean Currents

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The Curse of the Narrows, and the A(ccidental)-Bomb

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnnAGbi84hk

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Justin Quimby, Michael Brodhead, Arthur Kay, Matthew Nelson, Isolde Honoré, and Miles Traer. Thank you!