The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami - MacIntyre, Linden

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; 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 km 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 28 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 many inhabitants of the fishing outports along the Burin Peninsula.
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Hardcover
HarperCollins Publishers
2019
Toronto, ON