The Macmillan Book of Boating
Title | The Macmillan Book of Boating PDF eBook |
Author | William N. Wallace |
Publisher | |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Off in a Boat
Title | Off in a Boat PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Gunn |
Publisher | New Amsterdam Books |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1998-04-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1461718619 |
In 1937, the Scottish writer, Neil Gunn, gave up his job in the civil service, sold his house in Inverness, and bought a boat. With his wife and his brother John, he set off on a three-month voyage around Inner Hebrides. The boat had outlived its first youth, and its engine was somewhat cranky; she went tolerably under sail. These are not high recommendations, but for Gunn, and at times his fellow voyagers, the vessel was an argosy of freedom, of adventure and misadventure–for they were fairly inexperienced sailors, and the waters of the region are by no means placid. Gunn was a Scots nationalist in a sense that goes far beyond the political, even though he thought that an independent Scotland was the only proper basis for a reasonable civilization. He was by nature poetic, uplifted or cast down by changing skies, seascapes, and shores. His descriptions of those things, including their moods, are remarkably evocative. And he is also a passionate historian of his country, exalting its possibilities, anathematizing its shortcomings. The book is illustrated with Daisy Gunn's photographs taken on the voyage, which are palpably amateur but wonderfully telling.
Inside Grandad
Title | Inside Grandad PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Dickinson |
Publisher | Yearling |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2009-04-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0307532593 |
An unusual and moving story about the magical bond between a boy and his grandfather. Does it just happen that Gavin and Grandad see the seal while they are fishing in the harbor? Just happen that Grandad talks about the selkies, the seal people who can leave the water and take human form? Just happen that Grandad is finishing the beautiful miniature boat he’s making for Gavin’s tenth birthday, and Gavin decides to call her Selkie? And at that moment, Grandad has his stroke. Could the selkies have something to do with all this? Day after day at the hospital, Gavin tries to get through to helpless and speechless Grandad, trying to reach him, explain what’s happened to him. Everyone else has given up. But Gavin will try anything. Even asking the selkies to help. To do that, he must give them something to show them how much it matters. What is the dearest thing he owns?
Night Boat to Freedom
Title | Night Boat to Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2006-10-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780374312664 |
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.
Paper Boat
Title | Paper Boat PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Atwood |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 625 |
Release | 2024-10-08 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0593802659 |
An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961–2023 assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume. In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful, and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voice to remarkably drawn characters—mythological figures, animals, and everyday people—all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. “How can one live with such a heart?” Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader and ferrying us through life, death, and whatever comes next. Atwood, in her journey through poetry, illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears. Spanning six decades of work—from her earliest beginnings to brand-new poems—this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.
Seaborn
Title | Seaborn PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Moodie |
Publisher | Roaring Brook Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2008-08-19 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1429917954 |
"THE BOAT IS SINKING. YOU HAVE TO MOVE." When Luke's sailing trip goes horribly wrong, he must face the vast and brutal sea in this story of one boy's survival and coming-of-age. On the evening before Luke's family's annual summer sailing trip off Cape Cod, Luke's mother leaves. Luke is left with his angry, confused father on a small boat for a week and the trip goes horribly wrong when a summer storm sweeps Luke's father overboard. Not knowing whether his father is dead or alive, Luke must figure out how to survive on a wrecked sailboat far out to sea. Fans of Gary Paulsen and Will Hobbs will be captivated by Craig Moodie's depiction of the North Atlantic in this coming-of-age adventure.
The Red Boat
Title | The Red Boat PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Cumming |
Publisher | Child's Play Library |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781846434938 |
A mysterious red boat and George the dog help Posy cope with moving house.