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By Jack London
Paperback . . . . . $14.99
Available January 2011! In 1907 Jack London set out for the South Seas with his second wife, Charmian, and the results from that and subsequent voyages was significant. Along with a travelogue and childrens' books, London also produced three volumes of short stories. This edition from Dixon-Price Publishing is the first to collect those stories in a single volume.
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The Rob Roy on the Baltic |
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By John MacGregor, M.A.
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John MacGregor's delightful second voyage in 1866 through Norway and Sweden, then across the Baltic to Denmark and Prussia, and on to the North Sea island of Heligioland. A joyous voyage that solidified MacGregor's reputation. Complete with MacGregor's 36 sketches and four maps of the voyage. Contains MacGregor's description of how the Rob Roy canoe was constructed.
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Practical Boat Building for Amateurs |
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By Adrian Neison and Dixon Kemp
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“To be able to build a boat well, and to his own ideas and plans, requires that the amateur should be both a designer and builder, which, in their turn require that he should be an efficient draughtsman and carpenter.
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A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 27 December 2010 12:21 |
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By John MacGregor
Paperback . . . . . $17.99
"I am so very well acquainted with the Rob Roy canoe and have taken passage in her with so much pleasure . . ."
--Charles Dickens
SYNOPSIS
A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe recounts the travels of John MacGregor in a "decked" canoe, known now as a kayak, on the lakes and rivers of Europe in 1865.
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Last Updated on Monday, 27 December 2010 18:18 |
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A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building |
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By Richard M. Van Gaasbeek
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First published in 1918, the course was conceived by Van Gaasbeek at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in response to the desperate need for new ships on the eve of the United States' entry into World War I. Van Gaasbeek developed the program "to assist the great army of house carpenters and other woodworkers in transferring from their usual occupations to the wooden boat and ship building industries." He saw the book "as a response to the demand caused by shortage of skilled labor in these industries."
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