Curse Of The Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 |
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| Authors: | Mac Donald, Laura & MacDonald, Laura |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| BISAC/Subject: | HIS006020 |
| ISBN: | 9781443400107, Related ISBNs: 1443400106, 9780006394891, 9781443400107 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 368, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award and a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, and the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
National Bestseller
The events of the horrific Halifax explosion are well documented: on December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Belgian relief ship Imo collide in the Halifax harbour. Nearly 2,000 people are killed; over 9,000 more are injured. The story of one of the world’s worst non-natural disasters has been told before, but never like this.
In a sweeping narrative, Curse of the Narrows tells a tale of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation, retracing the steps of survivors through the wreckage of a city destroyed, told by an author who grew up in Halifax, and whose grandmother survived the explosion.
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