{"product_id":"9781459752511","title":"Oceans of Fate : Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe remarkable story of how one ship — doomed by war — intersected lives and crossed into history. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCompleted in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly thirty years. Built for peacetime deep-sea travel, she saw wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser and troopship before Japanese dive bombers destroyed her off Singapore in 1942.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression, she brought continents and people together, delivering mail and multi-million-dollar consignments of silk. As a luxurious passenger liner, she was the \"Greyhound of the Pacific,\" encountering enormous 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 and weapons dealers, and the idle and not-so idle rich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the dramatic story of how that one ship — and the lives of her passengers and crew — intersected during a tumultuous period of world history, culminating in her destruction off Singapore and the fate of her crew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48966523519211,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":42.09,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781459752511-1.jpg?v=1783107703","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781459752511","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}