Curse Of The Narrows

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.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Mac Donald, Laura MacDonald
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2006
• EAN: 9780006394891
• ISBN: 978-0-00-639489-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subject: HISTORY: Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)