Book Details

Title:

The Reynolds family, the nuclear age, and a brave wooden boat


Author:Reynolds Renshaw, Jessica
Place:Columbia, South Carolina
Publisher:private publication
Year:2017
Page:277

Reference:

Reynolds Renshaw, Jessica. The Reynolds family, the nuclear age, and a brave wooden boat . Columbia, private publication, 2017. Pp. 277


Categories:

Memoirs

Languages:

English

Description:

This book is a diary kept by the Reynolds’ daughter, Jessica. Dr. Earle Reynolds and his family members came to Hiroshima in 1951 because Earle Reynolds, an anthropologist, was sent to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC), Hiroshima. After he finished his duty, the family and three Hiroshima yachtsman started their world cruise voyage, which lasted for three and a half years. The family sailed into the nuclear testing zone in the Pacific, the United States, and went to Nakhodka, U.S.S.R., to protest nuclear tests conducted by these Nuclear-Weapon States.