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THE BOAT WHO WOULDN'T FLOAT: A RIBALD PERSONAL MISADVENTURE
de FARLEY MOWAT
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good+/Poor
- ISBN 10
- 0771065698
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065699
- Librería
-
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
This is a copy of the first reprint, cloth edition, of The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, A Ribald Personal Misadventure, by the Canadian author Farley Mowat. It was first printed in 1969; this edition was issued in 1973 and copies of it now sell for about $50.00.
Publisher's Description:
Legendary adventurer and author Farley Mowat dreamed of setting sail from the shores of Newfoundland to roam the seven seas.
Unfortunately, the boat he found was the worst in the world. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Mowat 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 harbor under full sail. And she sank, regularly.
How Mowat, his wife, and a varied crew coaxed the boat from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario (encountering sharks, rum-runners, rum and a host of unforgettable characters along the way) makes for a marvelous, and very funny, story. Perfect reading for anyone who ever loved a boat despite all reason.
As you can see, the dust jacket of this book is in bad shape. Where a piece of it is missing, something has marked the cover of the book--you can just see it in the top right corner.
Aside from some darkening of the paper, the rest of the book is in perfect condition.
Sinopsis
Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921, and grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Richmond Hill. He served in World War II from 1940 until 1945, entering the army as a private and emerging with the rank of captain. He began writing for his living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He remains an inveterate traveller with a passion for remote places and peoples. He has twenty-five books to his name, which have been published in translations in over twenty languages in more than sixty countries. They include such internationally known works as People of the Deer , The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be , Never Cry Wolf , Westviking , The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float , Sibir , A Whale for the Killing , The Snow Walker , And No Birds Sang , and Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey . His short stories and articles have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post , Maclean’s , Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. From the eBook edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Louise Aird
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1441
- Título
- THE BOAT WHO WOULDN'T FLOAT
- Autor
- FARLEY MOWAT
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Perfect
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Poor
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First reprint, cloth edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0771065698
- ISBN 13
- 9780771065699
- Editorial
- McClelland & Stewart
- Lugar de publicación
- Canada
- Fecha de publicación
- 1973
- Páginas
- 243
- Palabras clave
- Newfoundland, Lake Ontario, Rum-Runners
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Maritime, Ships, Boats; Biography, Autobiography, True Stories; Adventure, Travel & Exploration;
Términos de venta
Louise Aird
All sales are final. If a book arrives damaged, please contact me.
Sobre el vendedor
Louise Aird
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
West Vancouver, British Columbia
Sobre Louise Aird
Private individual who has been collecting books for 40 years.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
