Heroes of the Sea
Stories from the Atlantic Blue
&quote;Hope dies hard with a sailor.&quote; - W. B. Cullen, mate of the Roanoke, 1909Globe and Mail bestselling author Robert C. Parsons presents more than fifty exciting stories of high-seas adventure! Set mainly along the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1800s and 1900s, these are true stories of men and women who faced the deadly Atlantic Ocean-and won. Featuring:Ann Harvey of Isle aux Morts, a teenaged girl who helped rescue 160 passengers of the doomed brig Dispatch in 1828George Lake of Fortune, captain of the schooner George Ewart, who narrowly escaped death when an iron steamer smashed into his vessel off the coast…
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- ISBN: 978-1-77117-562-3
- EAN: 9781771175623
- Produktnummer: 35585932
- Verlag: Flanker Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'103 KB
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Robert C. Parsons has been called one of the most popular and prolific writers on the subject of Atlantic Canada's ships and ship disasters. He is the author of more than twenty-five non-fiction books. His work has also appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines such as Downhome, the Telegram, the Newfoundland Quarterly, and Newfoundland Lifestyles. In May 2009, Robert's nonfiction prose was judged an award winner in the annual Arts and Letters Competition. In December that same year, he was presented with the Polaris Award from the Canadian Coast Guard Alumni Association, Newfoundland and Labrador division, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the preservation and public awareness of the marine heritage and history in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This award was only given out two previous times in the years of the Alumni Association's existence. Robert's book Courting Disaster: True Crime and Mischief on Land and Sea was a Globe and Mail bestseller. A former fish plant worker and educator and a present-day researcher and devotee of all items marine-related, Robert lives in Grand Bank, Newfoundland.
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