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The wake : the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami by MacIntyre, Linden is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**In the vein of Erik Larson’s__Isaac’s Storm__and__Dead Wake__comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writers**On November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves, up to three storeys high, hit the coast at a hundred kilometres per hour, flooding dozens of communities and washing entire houses out to sea. The most destructive earthquake-related event in Newfoundland’s history, the disaster killed twenty-eight people and left hundreds more homeless or destitute. It took days for the outside world to find out about the death and damage caused by the tsunami, which forever changed the lives of the inhabitants of the fishing outports along the Burin Peninsula.Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning writer Linden MacIntyre was born near St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, one of the villages virtually destroyed by the tsunami. By the time of his birth, the cod-fishing industry lay in ruins and the village had become a mining town. MacIntyre’s father, lured from Cape Breton to Newfoundland by a steady salary, worked in St. Lawrence in an underground mine that was later found to be radioactive. Hundreds of mi

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Author

MacIntyre, Linden

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443452021

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities