The Boat Who Wouldn T Float
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The Boat Who Wouldn T Float
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Author : Farley Mowat
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
Release Date : 1970
The Boat Who Wouldn T Float written by Farley Mowat and has been published by Boston : Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Sports & Recreation categories.
It seemed like a good idea. Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers could do, leaked like a sieve. Her engine only worked when she felt like it. Typically, on her maiden voyage, with the engine stuck in reverse, she backed out of the harbour under full sail. And she sank, regularly. How Farley and a varied crew, including the intrepid lady who married him, coaxed the boat from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario is a marvellous story. The encounters with sharks, rum-runners, rum and a host of unforgettable characters on land and sea make this a very funny book for readers of all ages.
The Boat Who Wouldn T Float
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Author : Farley Mowat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Boat Who Wouldn T Float written by Farley Mowat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Authors, Canadian categories.
The Boat Who Wouldn T Float
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Things That Float And Things That Don T
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Author : David A. Adler
language : en
Publisher: Holiday House
Release Date : 2013-07-10
Things That Float And Things That Don T written by David A. Adler and has been published by Holiday House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-10 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
It can be surprising which objects float and which don't. An apple floats, but a ball of aluminum foil does not. If that same ball of foil is shaped into a boat, it floats! Why? And how is it possible that a huge ship made of steel can float? Answering these questions about density and flotation is David A. Adler's clear, concise text, paired with Anna Raff's delightful illustrations. Activities that demonstrate the properties of flotation are included.
Who Sank The Boat
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Author : Pamela Allen
language : en
Publisher: Picture Puffin
Release Date : 2007
Who Sank The Boat written by Pamela Allen and has been published by Picture Puffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Animals categories.
Besides the sea, on Mr Peffer's place, there lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig, and a tiny little mouse. One warm sunny morning for no particular reason, they decided to go for a row in the bay . . .
Float Your Boat
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Author : Mark Denny
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2008-12-15
Float Your Boat written by Mark Denny and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-15 with Science categories.
An estimated 4.1 million people in the United States participate in recreational sailing. Yet the large library of sailing literature leaves many of them high and dry. On one side are technical guides for America’s Cup boat-builders; on the other, simplistic books for weekend sailors with little interest in science. In Float Your Boat! professional and amateur boaters alike will find intelligent and understandable answers to such questions as: What were the key innovations that made sailboats more efficient? How do you increase the speed of a boat? How do sailboats travel into the wind? Why are so many explanations of sailing so wrong? Sailing enthusiast and physicist Mark Denny first traces the evolution of the sailing craft, from prehistoric coracles made of animal skins and antlers to the sailboat’s reinvention as a pleasure craft during the Industrial Revolution. He then identifies specific sailing phenomena—how wind drives modern Bermuda sloops, how torque determines stability, why hull speed exists—and provides the key physics principles behind them. Whether you are an inquisitive landlubber who has never set foot in a boat, a casual weekend sailor, or an old salt who lives for the sea, Float Your Boat! is an accessible guide to the physics of sailing.
My Discovery Of America
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Author : Farley Mowat
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 1985
My Discovery Of America written by Farley Mowat and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1985, when Mowat tried to enter the United States for a book promotion tour, he was barred by the McCarran Act, a 1952 law enacted during the McCarthy era. This book, told with outraged but good humour, describes Mowat's fight against the ban.
Bay Of Spirits
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Author : Farley Mowat
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2009-01-13
Bay Of Spirits written by Farley Mowat and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundland’s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in love with a people and a place, Mowat also met the woman who would be the great love of his life. A stunningly beautiful and talented young artist, Claire Wheeler insouciantly climbed aboard Farley’s beloved but jinxed schooner as it lay on the St. Pierre docks, once again in a cradle for repairs, and changed both their lives forever. This is the story of that love affair, of summers spent sailing the Newfoundland coast, and of their decision to start their life together in Burgeo, one of the province’s last remaining outports. It is also an unforgettable portrait of the last of the outport people and a way of life that had survived for centuries but was now passing forever. Affectionate, unsentimental, this is a burnished gem from an undiminished talent. I was inside my vessel painting the cabin when I heard the sounds of a scuffle nearby. I poked my head out the companionway in time to see a lithesome young woman swarming up the ladder which leaned against Happy Adventure’s flank. Whining expectantly, the shipyard dog was endeavouring to follow this attractive stranger. I could see why. As slim and graceful as a ballet dancer (which, I would later learn, was one of her avocations), she appeared to be wearing a gleaming golden helmet (her own smoothly bobbed head of hair) and was as radiantly lovely as any Saxon goddess. I invited her aboard, while pushing the dog down the ladder. “That’s only Blanche,” I reassured my visitor. “He won’t bite. He’s just, uh . . . being friendly.” “That’s nice to know,” she said sweetly. Then she smiled . . . and I was lost. —From Bay of Spirits
Eastern Passage
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Author : Farley Mowat
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2010-10-12
Eastern Passage written by Farley Mowat and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Following Farley Mowat’s bestselling memoir, Otherwise, the literary lion returns with an unexpected triumph. Eastern Passage is a new and captivating piece of the puzzle of Farley Mowat’s life: the years from his return from the north in the late 1940s to his discovery of Newfoundland and his love affair with the sea in the 1950s. This was a time in which he wrote his first books and weathered his first storms of controversy, a time when he was discovering himself through experiences that, as he writes, "go to the heart of who and what I was" during his formative years as a writer and activist. In the 1950s, with his career taking off but his first marriage troubled, Farley Mowat buys a piece of land northwest of Toronto and attempts to settle down. His accounts of building his home are by turns hilarious and affecting, while the insights into his early work and his relationship with his publishers offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a writer’s career. But in the end, his restless soul could not be pinned to one place, and when his father offered him a chance to sail down the St. Lawrence, he jumped at it, not realizing that his journey would bring him face to face with one of Canada’s more shocking secrets – one most of us still don’t know today. This horrific incident, recalling as it did the lingering aftermath of war, and from which it took the area decades to recover, would forge the final tempering of Mowat as the activist we know today. Eastern Passage is a funny, astute, and moving book that reveals that there is more yet to this fascinating and beloved figure than we think we know.
The Grey Seas Under
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Author : Farley Mowat
language : en
Publisher: New York : Lyons Press
Release Date : 2001
The Grey Seas Under written by Farley Mowat and has been published by New York : Lyons Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Mowat, author of Never Cry Wolf and nearly 40 other books, writes passionately of the courage of the men of the small oceangoing tug Foundation Franklin. From 1930 until 1948, the tug's job was to rescue sinking ships in the North Atlantic. Mowat's account paints a dramatic picture of the battle between men and the cruel sea. c. Book News Inc.