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
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 05.09.2006
• EAN: 9780006394891
• ISBN: 978-0-00-639489-1
• Pages: 368
• Subjects: Mont Blanc, 2019, 2006, 2010, Canada, History, Boston, European History, War, Award, Explosion, Dartmouth, 20th Century, Historical, 1917, Nonfiction, Atlantic, maritime history, WW1, Halifax, Tragedy, Great War, WWI, Disaster, Canadian, Survivors, World War I, HISTORY: Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-), Canadian History, naval history, IMO, maritime, World War One, Disasters, favorites, 2000s, nonfic, NF, nonfiction history, Canadiana, Laura Macdonald, halifax explosion, charles taylor prize, laura mac donald, vince coleman, reads like a novel, one hundredth anniversary