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| Title: Sailing Uphill |
| Sub-title: An Unconventional Life on the Water |
| By (author): Sam McKinney |
| ISBN10-13: 0920663702 : 9780920663707 |
| Sam McKinney has spent many of the best parts of his life on the water -- sailing a dory along Canada's west coast, crewing on the deck of a river steamer, shipping out deep-sea in freighters across the Atlantic. In the middle of his life, when he sold the hull of an ocean-going sailboat which had absorbed two years of his love and labour, he looked at his boat-building shed and thought, "Hmm. With all this lumber, I could build a boat and go across the continent, instead". So he did. In the Gander he travelled up the Columbia and Snake rivers, down the Missouri, up the Mississippi and Illinois and on, ever eastward, to New York City. It took him four summers and three Ganders, one of which had to be abandoned in the mud of the upper Missouri, but he made it. This is a lovely and evocative memoir by a perceptive and thoughtful writer. |
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Pages: 176
Size: 215x139x6mm
Illustrations: b/w photos
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| Published: Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA) - May 2000 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Biography: general : Autobiography: general : History of other lands : Ships & boats: general interest : Sailing : Canada |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Title: 1 of: 2 |
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| Title: Voyages of Hope |
| Sub-title: The Saga of the Bride-Ships |
| By (author): Peter Johnson |
| ISBN10-13: 0920663796 : 9780920663790 |
| A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible disruptions of industrial England and the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and early British feminists. |
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"Most of [the brides] did in fact marry, and some did very well for themselves." -- Family History Monthly, June 2004.
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Pages: 240
Size: 190x139x22mm
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| Published: Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA) - September 2002 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History of other lands : Social & cultural history : Migration, immigration & emigration : Canada |
| List Price: 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Title: 2 of: 2 |
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