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Oceans of Fate
- Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia
Af: Dan Black
Engelsk Paperback
Oceans of Fate
- Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia
Af: Dan Black
Engelsk Paperback

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The remarkable story of how one ship — doomed by war — intersected lives and crossed into history.

Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly 30 years. Built for long-haul ocean travel during peace-time, she saw wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser and troopship before Japanese dive-bombers destroyed her in 1942.

Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, she brought continents and people together, delivering mail and multimillion-dollar consignments of silk. As a luxurious passenger liner, she was a “Greyhound of the Pacific,” braving epic storms and smashing transpacific speed records. From stokehold to bridge, steerage to first-class staterooms, she steamed with a kaleidoscope of lives, including courageous and recalcitrant crew, immigrants and refugees seeking a better life or relief from disaster, drug smugglers, weapons dealers, and the idle and not-so-idle rich.

This is the dramatic story of how that one ship and the lives of those on board intersected during a tumultuous period of world history, culminating in her sinking off Singapore in the Second World War.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
392
ISBN-13:
9781459752511
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1459752511
Udg. Dato:
3 apr 2025
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
The Dundurn Group
Oplagsdato:
3 apr 2025
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