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Footsteps on Old FloorsThomas RaddallHistory, True Mysteries Order this book: |
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In Footsteps on Old Floors, Thomas Raddall writes about the gruesome murders aboard the Herbert Fuller... a fateful voyage that eventually brought her crew to a Halifax courtyard. He also reveals the curious history of an eighteenth century French frigate that became an English military vessel whose was stranded on Seal Island, on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.
Here also are accounts of gold discovery in Kejimkujik, the career of Grey Owl - the great White Indian, the life of a Halifax prostitute from the turn of the century, and the mystery of the Mary Celeste - a ship found adrift at sea without a trace of a crew.
Thomas Head Raddall is probably Nova Scotia's most loved storyteller. Born at Hythe, Kent, England, he moved to Nova Scotia in 1918. Perhaps best known for His Majesty's Yankees (1942), The Nymph and the Lamp (1950), The Governor's Lady (1960), he also won three Governor General's awards, for The Piper of Dipper Creek, Halifax, Warden of the North and The Path of Destiny. While he is best known for his fiction, his work has always been rooted in historical fact.