A Carriacou Sloop’s Voyage to Vancouver Ancestor is the story of a Carriacou sloop, an engineless, locally-built sailing vessel purchased and refit by the author while living and sailing in the vicinity of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada
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Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation Cape Horn Birthday documents the extraordinary non-stop round-the-world journey of a lone sailor and his thirty-two-foot sloop. GPS did not exist when Peter Freeman set sail from Victoria, British Columbia, in 1984. Peter navigated the old-fashioned
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25 Years of Exploration and Discovery of the British Columbia Coast by Paddle, Oar and Sail In this collection of narratives Victoria technologist, environmentalist and writer Alex Zimmerman tells stories not only of self-propelled travel and adventure but also of
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Early one Spring morning, in 1888, on Texada Island, British Columbia, the body of Ernie Tsan washed ashore with the tide, and landed at the feet of a young newspaper reporter, Evelyn Walker. Eve is Canada’s first female journalist, on
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Lifelong Learning with friends and family Beyond the Floathouse, Lifelong Learning with friends and family is the sequel to Gunhild’s Granddaughter. In this book a very shy, ordinary girl, who grew up enveloped by an insular loving family and surrounded
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Gunhild’s Granddaughter When Myrtle Rae Forberg steps from her father’s boat to the floating dock at Rock Bay, and walks along the board walk to school, she takes her first steps from the water-constrained world in which she has lived
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One family’s journey from the farmlands of Norway to the coast of British Columbia from FJORD TO FLOATHOUSE is the saga of hardy pioneers who worked and lived along the remote mainland coast of British Columbia in the first half
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Embracing Vulnerability “Your so lucky” they told her but what no-one realized is she narrowly escaped a violent hostage situation. The only “luck” she had was that her upbringing taught her to be a fighter. A journey through one girls
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