Boston WordsWorth Books US Map & Phone & Address
• 30 Brattle St. Cambridge; (617)
354- 5201 Perhaps the king of Harvard Square bookshops, the two-story WordsWorth looks out regally over the open plaza at the beginning of Brattle Street. It offers a very complete selection of current books over 100,000 titles under nearly 100 categories, from Native American studies to linguistics to bestsellers.
All are sold at 15% off hardcover prices and 10% off paperbacks.
On the second floor, by the windows, you’ll also find further reductions on leftover editions. New and Selected Essays by Robert Penn Warren, originally $25, was on sale for $6.25. WordsWorth is open late seven days a week.
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During thick fog on 26 April 1895, the Lady Eleanor, a well-known Wear trader, sank following a collision with the 1,242-ton passenger/cargo steamer Iona (1883 -London and Edinburgh Shipping Co. Leith), 10 miles NE of Coquet Island. Of Lady Eleanor’s crew of 16, three men were lost: Mr Anderson, the chief engineer, William Todd, the steward, and a fireman, but the Iona rescued the other 13 crewmen and took them back to Sunderland. Captain J. Robinson from the stricken ship had a very narrow escape, as his vessel, which had been cleft almost in two by the force of the collision, went down; he fortunately seized hold of some wreckage and kept afloat for nearly half an hour before being picked up. The crewmen that drowned were last seen standing next to the rail of the sinking steamer. The Lady Eleanor had been on passage from Sunderland for Aberdeen with a cargo of coal when she was struck in the port side at about 2215 hrs by the bow stem of the Iona. Lady Eleanor was a well known Wear trader. The Iona, which was carrying a crew of 28 and 6 passengers from Leith to London, was left badly damaged. This wreck, probably that of the Lady Eleanor, is orientated in a SE to NW direction.
