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Author : Lee Hughes
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574091922
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Biggest Boat I Could Afford written by Lee Hughes and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Hughes is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
Author : Lee Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869416089
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Biggest Boat I Could Afford written by Lee Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looming unemployment, creeping middle-age and the stormclouds of matrimony can drive a man to desperate actions and in Lee Hughes's case they drove him around the world and out to sea. Despite having hardly any money, no noticeable sailing experience and a deep and abiding fear of the sea, he set out to complete a transit of the US East Coast from Florida to Maine in a boat slightly smaller than a king-sized bed. In his open Wayfarer sailing dinghy he experienced all the predictable pleasures and perils of a typical land-based camping trip (rain, bugs, leaky tents, outdoor ablutions, solitude, discomfort, dire food and officialdom) - but all with an improved chance of drowning. Inevitably, in a six-month, 4000-km adventure, unpredictable things will happen too. This is the story of that journey - and the surprising conclusion to a most unusual 20-year romance. It will appeal to all active and armchair sailors and outdoor enthusiasts, plus fans of Lee Hughes' previous books, 'SHOOTING FROM THE LIP' and 'STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S ASS'. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lee Hughes has been a New Zealand army officer, semi-professional cowboy, expert bungee-jumping instructor, surly bartender, mediocre gas-pump jockey, body-flying machine inventor and national training manager and technical writer for do-gooding organisations. In his spare time he has adventures and writes about them. He has had great success with his two previous books about his adventures in the army, and as a cowboy riding from Canada to Mexico.
Author : Cynthia Cotten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823425211
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book Boat's in written by Cynthia Cotten and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a book boat on the Erie Canal in the 1800s, Jessie spots a used copy of The Swiss Family Robinson, then works very hard all week to earn the money he needs to buy it. Includes historical note.
Author : Helen Zia
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345522338
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Last Boat Out of Shanghai written by Helen Zia and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution—a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. “A true page-turner . . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history is something that happens to real people.”—New York Times bestselling author Lisa See NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY Shanghai has historically been China’s jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao’s proletarian revolution emerged victorious from the long civil war. Terrified of the horrors the Communists would wreak upon their lives, citizens of Shanghai who could afford to fled in every direction. Seventy years later, members of the last generation to fully recall this massive exodus have revealed their stories to Chinese American journalist Helen Zia, who interviewed hundreds of exiles about their journey through one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. From these moving accounts, Zia weaves together the stories of four young Shanghai residents who wrestled with the decision to abandon everything for an uncertain life as refugees in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. Benny, who as a teenager became the unwilling heir to his father’s dark wartime legacy, must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. The resolute Annuo, forced to flee her home with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the U.S. in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. And Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America. The lives of these men and women are marvelously portrayed, revealing the dignity and triumph of personal survival. Herself the daughter of immigrants from China, Zia is uniquely equipped to explain how crises like the Shanghai transition affect children and their families, students and their futures, and, ultimately, the way we see ourselves and those around us. Last Boat Out of Shanghai brings a poignant personal angle to the experiences of refugees then and, by extension, today. “Zia’s portraits are compassionate and heartbreaking, and they are, ultimately, the universal story of many families who leave their homeland as refugees and find less-than-welcoming circumstances on the other side.”—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club
Author : Emerson Hough
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465611932
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lady and the Pirate: Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive written by Emerson Hough and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I WAS sitting at one of my favorite spots engaged in looking through my fly-book for some lure that might, perhaps, mend my luck in the afternoon’s fishing. At least, I had within the moment been so engaged; although the truth is that the evening was so exceptionally fine, and the spot always so extraordinarily attractive to me—this particular angle of the stream, where the tall birches stand, being to my mind the most beautiful bit on my whole estate—that I had forgotten all about angling and was sitting with rod laid by upon the bank, the fly-book scarce noted in my hand. Moreover, a peculiarly fine specimen of Anopheles, (as I took it to be) was at that very moment hovering over my hand, and I was anxious to confirm my judgment as well as to enlarge my collection of mosquitoes. I had my other hand in a pocket feeling for the little phial in which I purposed to enclose Anopheles, if I could coax him to alight. Indeed, I say, I was at that very moment as happy as a man need be; or, at least, as happy as I ever expected to be. Imagine my surprise, therefore, at that moment to hear a voice, apparently intended for me, exclaim, “Halt! Caitiff!” I looked up, more annoyed than displeased or startled. It is not often one sees so fine a specimen of Anopheles; and one could have sworn that, but for my slight involuntary movement of the hand, he must have settled; after which—crede experto!—he would have been the same as in my phial, and doomed to the chloroform within the next hour. Besides, no matter who one may be or how engaged, it is not wholly seemly to be accosted as a caitiff, when one is on one’s own land, offending no man on earth, owing no debt and paying no tribute, feudal, commercial, military or personal, to any man on earth.
Author : Dave Selby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472944852
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Impractical Boat Owner written by Dave Selby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book with no practical purpose whatsoever. As any fan of Dave's would probably guess, a book by him won't make you a better sailor, and it won't provide any instruction on boat maintenance. But it will entertain – his light but observational writings tap the rich well of all those things that sailors know but few dare admit. The Impractical Boat Owner is a collection of Dave's columns for Practical Boat Owner magazine, expanded for the book, and with additional 'Lessons Not Learned' hints and tips boxes, all accompanied by Jake Kavangh's wonderful cartoons. Taking us from Dave's first flounderings afloat to more recent, er, flounderings afloat, themes covered include: - first attempts at sailing - how not to sail singlehanded - mysteries of maintenance - how not to sail with a dog - the impenetrable mysteries of navigation and weather - how not to race With a Foreword by Mike Peyton, The Impractical Boatowner is an antidote to all that's written about expensive shiny new yachts, self-improvement, the quest for qualifications and practical skills.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-07 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Overseas Private Investment Corporation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Buehler
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071817034
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding written by George Buehler and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1991-01-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody has the dream: Build a boat in the backyard and sail off to join the happy campers off Pogo Pogo, right? But how? Assuming you aren't independently wealthy, if you want a boat that's really you, you gotta build it yourself. Backyard boatbuilding has its problems. Building in fiberglass is itchy, smelly, and yields a product that yachting maven L. Francis Herreshoff once called "frozen snot." Ferrocement, once all the rage, has pretty much sunk from favor, if you catch the drift. But there's still wood, right? Ah, wood. Nature's perfect material. You can build in the time-honored traditions of the Golden Age of Yachting, loving crafting intricate joints in rare tropical hardwoods, steaming swamp oak butts to sinuous shapes, holding the whole thing together with nonferrous fastenings that cost a buck or better each. Does that sound like boatbuilding for everyperson? What about the currently fashionable wood/epoxy boatbuilding? You butter regular old wood with Miracle Whip, stick it together in the shape of a boat, and off you go, right? Epoxy works, but They don't exactly give it away; nor is it exactly a benign substance. Suiting up like Homer Simpson heading for a fun-filled day at the nuclear power plant isn't exactly the aesthetic boatbuilding experience many of us are looking for. Where does that leave us? In the capable hands of George Buehler, who honors the timeless traditions of the sea all right, but those from the other side of the boatyard tracks. Buehler draws his inspiration from centuries of workboat construction, where semiskilled fishermen built rugged, economical boats from everyday materials in their own backyards, and went to sea in them in all kinds of weather, not just when it was pleasant. Buehler's boats sail on every ocean and perform every task, from long-term liveaboards in Norwegian fjords to a traveling doctor's office in Alaska. This book contains complete plans for seven cruising boats--from a 28-foot sailboat to a 55-foot power cruiser. All the information you need is here, including step-by-step instructions honed by nearly 20 years of supplying boat plans to backyard builders--and helping them out when they get into trouble. Buehler is anarchic, heretical, and occasionally profane; his book is West Coast counterculture meets traditional hardchine workboat construction, leavened with hardnosed common sense and penny-pinching economy. This book is for those who look around them and see that much of what is done in the world today--whether in yachting or politics or economics or interpersonal relationships--is based not on logic but on conforming and meeting other people's expectations. This book is most definitely NOT about either. It is about the realization of dreams. If you believe that everyone who wants a cruising boat can have one . . . If you see beauty beneath the fish scales and work scars of a commercial fishing boat . . . If you want to build a simple, rugged, economical, good-looking cruising boat--power or sail--using everyday lumberyard materials and few skills other than perseverance, this is the book for you. Buehler's Backyard Boatbuilding tells you how to build extraordinary boats using the most ordinary skills and materials, with complete plans, instructions, and specifications for seven real cruising boats ranging from a 28-foot sailboat to a 55-foot power cruiser. "Build wooden boats the Buehler way, which is to say inexpensively, yet like the proverbial brick outhouse."--WoodenBoat Richly flavored with personal advice and anecdotes as well as a wealth of valuable information."--American Sailing Association "Everyone will revere this book."--The Ensign
