Explosion - Softcover

Akerman, Jeremy

 
9781998149162: Explosion

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In December, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia suffered the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bomb when two ships, one loaded to the gunwales with munitions, collided in Halifax Harbour. Jeremy Akerman's novel sets the scene through the eyes of admirals and lovers, harbour pilots and telegraphers, those who fought to avert the disaster and those who had no idea what was about to happen to them.

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Jeremy Akerman is an adoptive Nova Scotian who has lived in the province since 1964. In that time he has been an archaeologist, a radio announcer, a politician, a senior civil servant, a newspaper editor and a film actor.He is painter of landscapes and portraits, a singer of Irish folk songs, a lover of wine, and a devotee of history, especially of the British Labour Party. Jeremy's first novel, 'Black Around the Eyes', was published in 1981. Other projects required his intention until recently, when he was able to take up fiction again. From the start of 2023 to the end of 2025, he wrote and published twelve novels.See: moosehousepress.com/authors/jeremy-akerman

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