Tag Archives: adventure

The Motion of the Ocean

May 12, 2011 – 10:15 am

Shop Indie Bookstores “1 small boat, 2 average lovers, and a woman’s search for the meaning of wife.” That is the basis for this excellent memoir, written by a Seattle gal. I laughed out loud reading this book, but yet it was very insightful about the difficulties of making a (new) marriage work. It sounds [...]

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Two Whales With The Same Tale

March 4, 2009 – 9:56 am

If you’ve never read Moby Dick, you might want to first start with Nathaniel Philbrick‘s true account In the Heart of the Sea:The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. After all, the sinking of the Essex was the inspiration for Melville’s Moby Dick.  Variety reports that both books are currently in development (Hollywood speak for coming [...]

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A Dream In Polar Fog

January 8, 2009 – 6:00 pm

This is the story of a young Canadian man, John MacLennan, who against his parents wishes, leaves his university life behind to find adventure aboard a merchant schooner headed to Siberia in the early 1900s. The book opens with John having both hands blown off while checking explosives meant to free the ship from the [...]

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