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The August Gales
Author | : Gerald Hallowell |
Publsiher | : Nimbus Publishing (CN) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1771080469 |
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Three different fishing communities, three different countries, but in their pursuit of fish on the banks they would have much in common, including the terrors of the North Atlantic storms. The August Gales is a richly detailed history of the banks fishery, the perils of the North Atlantic, and more specifically, the three powerful, and ultimately deadly, August storms that devastated not only an industry, but entire communities. The great gale of 1873, which struck near the eastern mainland of Nova Scotia, was only a prelude to the gales of 1926 and 1927, which brought unthinkable grief to the towns of Lunenburg and Gloucester as well as the island of Newfoundland. (On one fateful day, a woman in the village of Blue Rocks, near Lunenburg, lost her husband, two of his brothers, and three of her own brothers.) Impeccably researched and with over 40 black and white images, The August Gales is a fascinating and at times moving account of the schooners that made their living, and met their end, in the famed North Atlantic gales.
Thursday s Storm
Author | : Darrell Duke |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1771172762 |
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When the crew of the fishing schooner Annie Healy left their home port of Fox Harbour, Placentia Bay, on Wednesday, August 17, 1927, no one could have imagined what fate held in store for them. Times were hard in Newfoundland that year. On shore, wives of the crew were often worked to exhaustion, even more so while their men were at sea. Most had lost parents, siblings, or children to tuberculosis. Each family had at least one tragic story. But when a hurricane struck Placentia Bay on August 25 of that year, a tragedy unlike any they had lived through would unite these people in ways untold. Now, eighty-six years later, the full story of the ill-fated vessel and her crew is told for the first time. The closeness of the crew and their families, and how they worked together to ensure their little community survived, is relived through the memories of children of the crew, stories passed down from their mothers, and reports from the last men to see the schooner afloat.
August Gale
Author | : Barbara Walsh |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780762777099 |
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An award-winning journalist’s voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there. In August Gale, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barbara Walsh—who has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her career—faces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain. In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on God and the wind to carry them home; the other, into a squall stirred by a man with many secrets: a grandfather who remained a mystery until long after his death. Sixty-eight years after the hurricane that claimed several of her ancestors, Walsh searches for memories of the August gale and the grandfather who abandoned her dad as a young boy. Together, she and her father journey to Newfoundland to learn about the 1935 storm, and along the way her dad begins to talk about the man he cannot forgive. As she recreates the scenes of the violent hurricane and a small boy's tender past, she holds onto a hidden desire: to heal her father and redeem the grandfather she has never met.
Gusts and Gales
Author | : Josepha Sherman |
Publsiher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2003-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1404803386 |
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Explains what causes wind, the various kinds of wind, and describes hurricanes and tornadoes.
The Shipwrecked mariner
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555018055 |
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The Way to Avoid the Centre of our Violent Gales
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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The Way to Avoid the Centre of Our Violent Gales
Author | : George William Blunt |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Hurricanes |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HN4PPV |
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The Way to Avoid the Centre of Our Violent Gales Compiled by G W Blunt Observations on the Hurricanes and Storms of the West Indies and the Coast of the United States By W E Redfield With a Chart
Author | : George William BLUNT |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0018368634 |
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