The August Gales

Author : Gerald Hallowell
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1771080469

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The August Gales by Gerald Hallowell Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara Walsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762777099

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August Gale by Barbara Walsh Pdf

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.

Author : Darrell Duke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771172762

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Thursday's Storm by Darrell Duke Pdf

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.

Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404803386

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Gusts and Gales by Josepha Sherman Pdf

Explains what causes wind, the various kinds of wind, and describes hurricanes and tornadoes.

Author : Tanya Huff
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698173880

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The Future Falls by Tanya Huff Pdf

When Auntie Catherine warns the family of an approaching asteroid, the Gales scramble to keep humans from going the way of the dinosaurs. Fortunately for the world, they're wielding a guitar and a dragon. The Gale family can change the world with the charms they cast, which has caused some supernaturally complicated family shenanigans in the past. So when NASA and Doomsday Dan confirm Auntie Catherine's dire prediction, Charlotte "Charlie" Gale turns to the family for help. But Allie is unavailable because the universe seems determined to have her produce the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son of a Gale. And the Aunties can't help because they're tied to the earth – although they are happy to provide their delicious, trademark pies. And in the end, all Charlie has is a guitar... ...and Jack. The Dragon Prince, and a Sorcerer. But Charlie might like Jack just a little too much, and Jack might like Charlie a little too much in return. Actually, between Allie's hormones, the Aunties trying to force her and Jack into ritual, the Courts having way too much fun at the end of days, and Jack's sudden desire to sacrifice himself for the good of the many, Charlie's fairly certain that the asteroid is the least of her problems. The Gales are going to need more than pie to save the world from an incoming asteroid. But together there isn't anything they can't deal with – except possibly each other.

Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 039307661X

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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger Pdf

"There is nothing imaginary about Junger's book; it is all terrifyingly, awesomely real." —Los Angeles Times It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high—a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." In a book that has become a classic, Sebastian Junger explores the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storm touched. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller that makes us feel like we've been caught, helpless, in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding or control. Winner of the American Library Association's 1998 Alex Award.

Author : David Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521406056

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Probability with Martingales by David Williams Pdf

This is a masterly introduction to the modern, and rigorous, theory of probability. The author emphasises martingales and develops all the necessary measure theory.

Author : Timothy Severin
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-04
Category : Atlantic Ocean
ISBN : 0349107076

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The Brendan Voyage by Timothy Severin Pdf

The sixth-century voyage of St Brendan from Ireland to America, is one of the most fascinating of all sea legends. Could the myth of the Irish monk and his crew sailing the Atlantic in a boat made of leather, nearly a thousand years before Columbus, have been reality? In 1976, Tim Severin and a crew of four men, set out to recreate the Brendan legend. Using the exact same methods in constructing their sailing vessel, they set out on their hazardous voyage, making it one of the most inspiring expeditions in the history of exploration.

Author : Dagomar Degroot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108419314

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The Frigid Golden Age by Dagomar Degroot Pdf

Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.

Author : Thomas R. Gales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1481968068

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Wilderness Strong by Thomas R. Gales Pdf

A young Jack Racine learns to survive after suddenly and tragically being thrown alone into the wilderness of the 1850's West. The need to revenge the results of a raid and to find his younger brother and sister motivate his will to live. The life shaping events needed to survive in this wilderness, serve to mold a young man with the strength and skills to follow his plan.

Author : George Gale
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015006705944

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Theory of Science by George Gale Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555018055

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The Shipwrecked mariner by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jill Martin Bouteillier
Publisher : Images of Our Past
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1771083816

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Sable Island in Black and White by Jill Martin Bouteillier Pdf

The newest addition to the Images of Our Past series, Sable Island in Black and White is a fascinating look at day-to-day life on Nova Scotia's most secluded outpost during the nineteenth century. Travel back in time to 1884 when author Jill Martin-Bouteillier's great aunt, Trixie, was growing up on this isolated spit of sand 160 kilometres from the North American mainland. Trixie's father, Robert Jarvis (R. J.) Bouteillier, was Sable Island's superintendent, acting on behalf of the Nova Scotia government as lawmaker, doctor, dispenser of stores, and, most importantly, head of lifesaving. This narrative history accented by more than 100 black and white family photographs of the island's famous shipwrecks, wild horses, and visitors tells the incredible true story of a stalwart group of ordinary people who called Sable Island home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Way to Avoid the Centre of our Violent Gales by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tyler Benson
Publisher : Ensign Benson Books LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Search and rescue boats
ISBN : 0989284603

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The Adventures of Onyx and the Gales of November by Tyler Benson Pdf

One windy, November day, a cry for help comes into the Coast Guard Station in St. Ignace, Michigan. A plane has crashed on Mackinac Island and it's up to The Guardians of the Straits to answer the call. The Coasties quickly rush to their motor lifeboat, along with their newest and most fearless crewmember, Onyx the dog, leading the way. After a harrowing boat ride in gale winds and dangerously high waves, the Coasties still have to fight their way through the debris on the island to look for survivors. What they find in the wreckage surprises everyone but Onyx, who proves to be a hero once again.