The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami

by Linden MacIntyre

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1443452025
• ISBN13: 9781443452021
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"