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Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia

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Availability:In StockContributor:Dan Black, James P. Delgado (Foreword by)Publish date:02/18/25Pages:456
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dundurn PressISBN-13:9781459752511ISBN-10:1459752511UPC:9781459752511Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Maritime History & Piracy, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Naval, World War IISize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SC5XER562G

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Dundurn PressISBN-13:9781459752511ISBN-10:1459752511UPC:9781459752511Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Maritime History & Piracy, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Naval, World War IISize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SC5XER562G

Dan Black is the former editor of Legion Magazine and author or co-author of three previous books, including Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men: Canadians and the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War. He lives near Ottawa.


Publisher: Dundurn Press

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