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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of stories from award-winning author Ann Beattie, featuring recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Story selections. Surprising and revealing, set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, Beattie's astutely observed collection explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging." --
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Language
English
Description
Updated information on tackle, baits, and casting techniques and new photos and knot-tying illustrations. Fishing sandbars, points, jetties, scalloped beaches, and inlets. Species include bluefish, striped bass, red drum, weakfish, spotted sea trout, flounder, sharks. Eric B. Burnley has been fishing along the Atlantic Coast for over fifty years. A freelance outdoor writer and photographer based in Delaware, he also gives fly-fishing seminars and...
5) Seven at sea: why a New York City family cast off convention for a life-changing year on a sailboat
Author
Language
English
Description
"Working the night shift as a temp in a high-rise cubicle, Erik Orton knew something had to change. He felt the responsibility of providing for his wife and their five children--the youngest with Down syndrome--but craved a life that offered more than just surviving. Watching the sailboats on the Hudson River during his sunset dinner breaks, Erik dared to dream. What would it be like to leave the hustle of the city and instead spend a year on a sailboat,...
Publisher
Avalon Travel
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This book shows you how to make the most of almost 2,000 miles of two-lane highways, from the bright lights of the Big Apple, through the Carolina low-country, and all the way to Floridas free-wheeling Key West. With mile-by-mile highlights and detailed driving mapsall in a handy, portable formatthis is roadside Americana at your fingertips." --
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Villains of All Nations explores the 'Golden Age' of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates.
Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard; and the unnamed, unlimbed pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.
This history...
Rediker introduces us to the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger; swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard; and the unnamed, unlimbed pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.
This history...
