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Yankee Tsunami: An Engulfing Wave

Yankee Tsunami: An Engulfing Wave

Hardcover

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 1413410030
ISBN13: 9781413410037
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Feb 4 2004
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Yankee Tsunami: An Engulfing Wave by Andrew R. DiConti is a historical novel that covers a period of a year (1898-99) aboard the USS Boston, an innovative warship for the period. The adventures and exploits of Gamble Crane, a newly billeted crewmember, is a continuation of Yankee Tsunami: The Ocean Erupts, which began his adventures in exotic ports. Crane's taboo romance with Emily Chan, a girl of Chinese ancestry from Monterey, California, becomes complicated. Both lovers are American citizens, yet the mixing of the races in 1899 is viewed as scandalous. Crane's love for Emily is precipitated by their adventure that frees two young girls forced into the slavery of prostitution. This event begins Crane's metamorphosis of understanding. Learning of Emily's struggle to gain acceptance in the white community of Monterey begins the conversion of Crane into an advocate for human rights of non-white peoples in each port visited by the Boston. Gamble now empathizes with the struggle of people living on the rim of the Pacific, called heathens by whites.

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