The Extraordinary Voyage of Kamome: A Tsunami Boat Comes Home
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Author: Lori Dengler and Amya Miller
Illustrated by Amy Uyeki
ISBN: 9780996673105
Publisher:Humboldt State University Press
Year: 2015
Format: Paper
Condition: New
Illustrated by Amy Uyeki
ISBN: 9780996673105
Publisher:Humboldt State University Press
Year: 2015
Format: Paper
Condition: New
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On April 7, 2013, a little over two years after the magnitude 9 Tohoku-oki Japan earthquake triggered a massive tsunami off the coast of northeastern Japan, a lone boat washed up on the shores of Crescent City, California. The confirmation of the boat as belonging to a high school in Rikuzentakata was first step in an amazing story that has linked two tsunami-vulnerable communities on opposite sides of the Pacific and initiated friendships between high school students in Rikuzentakata. This story is now told in a children’s book published by Humboldt State University Press in November, 2015. Co-authored by Humboldt State University Emeritus Geology Professor Lori Dengler and Amya Miller, the Director of Global Public Relations in Rikuzentakata, the book features illustrations by Arcata artist Amy Uyeki.