Author : Catherine Dook
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780920663813
Liveaboards-people who choose to live permanently on their boats-are a unique and colourful element along the west coast. Almost every harbour has its floating village, and the camaraderie of the docks is legendary. Catherine Dook offers her readers a fond and funny peek inside this unconventional lifestyle, where nothing stays still and everything depends on the weather.
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
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Author : Catherine Dook
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781894898065
Catherine Dook, one of the west coast's most entertaining writers, is back with a second collection of stories about liveaboard life. Nicknamed "the Dooks of Hazard" by their neighbours along the wharves, Catherine and her husband, John, have called the 44-foot sailboat, Inuksuk, home for four years now - and life isn't getting any calmer. One trip, the Dooks unwittingly sailed through a torpedo-testing range; later, their propeller shaft came apart as they approached a new wharf. Catherine gives more detail on the lives of her fellow dock dwellers, including Older-Than-Dirt Don, Ed the Bald and Stafford the Respectable, and gleefully describes the local pastimes such as interpreting the bird droppings on the decks.Just as warm and witty as her first collection of stories, "Darling Call the Coast Guard, We're on Fire Again!", Catherine's new volume is a welcome addition to any nautical bookshelf.
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Page : 1602 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Canada
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Author : Clyde Ford
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1458767361
Charlie Noble, former coast-guard-officer-turned-marine-PI, is back. This time, he is hot on the trail of a human trafficking scheme that begins in Mexicoand ends in murder.Still reeling from the untimely death of his wife, Charlie begins to warm to the idea of a second chance at true love with new girlfriend Kate Sullivan. These plans are quickly docked when boating friends Marvin and Angela Baynes come to him with a horrifying discovery - the body of an unidentified young woman impaled on the flukes of their boat anchor. The Bayneses themselves lost a child years ago. No stranger to loss, Charlie finds it impossible not to help them - even though it could mean putting his new romance in jeopardy. Charlie enlists a friend, Raven, a Native American salvage diver. Together, the pair plunge beneath the waters of Puget Sound to seek out any clues about the identity of the dead woman and how she wound up there. But they find more bodies instead - all young, all female, all Hispanic. Soon Charlie finds himself navigating a course that leads him through the choppy waters of transporting human cargo, and right into the seedy underworld of the Northwest's sex trade.With its fresh, nautical flavor, riveting mystery, and incredible depth of humanity, Precious Cargo is a winner from Clyde Ford that is truly unique - and compulsively readable.
Author : Glenora Doherty
Publisher : Life Journey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2012-02
Category : Grief
ISBN : 9780978299972
What happens when the dream dies with a partner? After 38 years of marriage, Peter and Glenora Doherty embarked on their life's dream of sailing around the world on their own boat. Three years into the voyage, Peter passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. Glenora not only lost him, she lost her cruising lifestyle and her liveaboard home. Her dreams were shattered. She no longer knew who she was or where she was going. This inspirational and uplifting book will provide practical and comforting advice to anyone who has lost a spouse. There are helpful "Steps to Survival" at the end of each chapter and suggestions about planning ahead for dealing with the death of a spouse, particularly for offshore sailors. To illustrate her voyage, Glenora reflects frequently on the challenges and joys of cruising under sail.
Author : Studs Terkel
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1595587667
A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: “Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking.” —The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel’s classic oral history Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a “brilliant” and enduring portrait of people’s feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). “Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us.” —Business Week “The talk in Working is good talk—earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.” —The Washington Post
Author : John D. MacDonald
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812983955
From a beloved master of crime fiction, Nightmare in Pink is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. Travis McGee’s permanent address is the Busted Flush, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale, and there isn’t a hell of a lot that compels him to leave it. Except maybe a call from an old army buddy who needs a favor. If it wasn’t for him, McGee might not be alive. For that kind of friend, Travis McGee will travel almost anywhere, even New York City. Especially when there’s a damsel in distress. “As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.”—Dean Koontz The damsel in question is his old friend’s kid sister, whose fiancé has just been murdered in what the authorities claim was a standard Manhattan mugging. But Nina knows better. Her soon-to-be husband had been digging around, finding scum and scandal at his real estate investment firm. And this scum will go to any lengths to make sure their secrets don’t get out. Travis is determined to get to the bottom of things, but just as he’s closing in on the truth, he finds himself drugged and taken captive. If he’s being locked up in a mental institution with a steady stream of drugs siphoned into his body, how can Travis keep his promise to his old friend? More important, how can he get himself out alive? Features a new Introduction by Lee Child
Author : Jonathan Franklin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501116290
The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.
Author : Rudy Rucker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765318725
The Singularity has happened, and life afterward proves to be more bizarre than we thought. "SF book of the year" (Interzone).
