A voyage round my mother : surviving shipwrecks, torpedoes, and family storms /: surviving shipwrecks, torpedoes, and family storms. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eleanor Stewart.
• Authors: (Author of Kicking the habit), Stewart, Eleanor
• Contents: Contents ; Acknowledgments 9; Author’s Note 10; Prologue 11; 1 Portsmouth: Mother’s Arrival (1993) 13; 2 Govan (1920s) via Buffalo (1930) to Dunoon (1932) 18; 3 Dunoon: Love and Sad ness (1936) 24; 4 T he Compa ny, May & Baker (1937) 30; 5 M &B and “the Wonder Drug” (1938) 37; 6 Gathering Clouds and War (1938–39) 44; 7 M arriag e, August 1940 49; 8 T he Depa rture, February 1941 57; 9 T he Ship, 16 March 1941 62; 10 S hip Life, March 1941 67; 11 S hip Life Continues, 23 March 74; 12 Attac k, 25 March 77; 13 T he Boat, Day 1, 25 March 85; 14 T he Boat, Day 2, 26 March 92; 15 T he Boat, Day 3, 27 March 97; 16 R escue, Day 4, 28 March 101; 17 SS Raranga, 29 March 109; 18 M ontevideo, 10 April 1941 115; 19 Buenos Aires: The Mysterious Monsieur Gué, 15 April 125; 20 Flight: A Cheerful New Zealander with a Novel Way of Paying Her Air Fare, 24 April 131; 21 L os Angeles: Unpleasantness with Immigration, 3 May 1941 136; 22 A Chance Encounter with the “Great Dictator” and the “Dook”, 5 May 141; 23 T he Angelus Temple: An Odd Experience, 6 May 145; 24 S an Francisco: Bag els and “Twittering”, 8 May 149; 25 Another Ship, Another Ocean, 9 May 154; 26 K ing Neptune’s Court and Trag ic News, 17 May 163; 27 Arrival in Kobe: America n Unease and the Sinking of the Bismarck, 25–27 May 167; 28 S tolen Chopsticks and Love Games, 28 May 172; 29 H ong Kong: “Land of the Frag rant Streams”, 1 June 1941 183; 30 Jai Alai and a Medica l Emergency, 4 June 190; 31 R affles and a Not-So-Sweet Parting, 11 June 199; 32 T emples and Snakes, 16 June 208; 33 Colombo: The End in Sight, 19 June 216; 34 Bomba y: Stopover, 24 June 224; 35 Calcutta: Safely Arrived, 27 June 230; Epilogue 236; Acknowledgments
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Lion
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (237 pages)
• Subjects: 306.8743; Mothers and daughters; Mères et filles; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Families; Mothers and daughters; Electronic books; Family
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780745968841; 0745968848
• Related ISBNs: 9780745968834; 074596883X
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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