Safety tips for living alone -- Wall-to-wall counseling -- HMS Terror -- Cretan Love Song -- The world to come -- The ocean of air -- Positive train controls -- Telemachus -- Forcing joy on young people -- Intimacy
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Junior Library Guild
Summary
Collection of ten stories in which diverse characters, including 19th century arctic explorers, frontier housewives, and 18th century french balloonists, face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale.