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高三一轮复习单元检测卷/英语
Martin Stephen lost his cousin David Jeffrey and almost lost his own life when they were swept
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into a strong wave as a force 10 gale hit Dunbar two days before Christmas in 1970.The pair had been
climbing rocks at the entrance to Dunbar harbour to watch the storm roll in,as they had done many
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times before.
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A sudden wave pulled 11-year-old David into the water.Martin,who was 21,jumped in after
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him to try to save him but the waves were just too strong.David was never found.Martin was left
struggling against the swell.The lifeboat crew at Dunbar was deployed and after a dramatic rescue
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mission,Martin was pulled from the sea.
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Five decades later,Martin wrote to the crew to thank them once more for their brave actions
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which allowed him to go on and live a full and happy life.And he had the opportunity to talk via video
call to David Kittrick-one of the men who helped him.
Elizabeth Kolbert's new book,Under a White Sky,explores climate engineering and other bids
to address humanity's impact on nature.Below,the Pulitzer winning author of The Sixth Extinction
David was a young volunteer and he managed to pull Martin's head above the icy water as other
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crew members joined the rescue.Martin was eventually pulled aboard the Margaret's lifeboat,where
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Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee (1971)
he was resuscitated.The men took it in turns to keep him alive until they could get him ashore.
McPhee's vivid portrait of David Brower,the California mountaineer considered by many to be
David Brunton was the crew member who pulled Martin out of the water that day.He is no longer
the "father"of the modern environmental movement,is a classic.It in the process poses one of the
alive,and it is only now that his son Jamie has learned the full details of the res