Into the ice Mowat, Farley
Yachting (New York, N.Y.),
02/2009, Letnik:
205, Številka:
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Magazine Article
The shipwrights began her transformation by extending her boat-deck forward to her stem, thus adding six feet of freeboard forward.The new below-deck space resulting from this change was turned into ...quarters for the crew, and the black hole aft, which had been theirs, was converted to a hold for stowing pumps and other salvage gear. ... the early spring of that hungry year saw every sizeable vessel which could be kept afloat sail out to meet the ice.
In 1966, long before the eastern Arctic became Nunavut, Farley Mowat travelled the length and breadth of the old Northwest Territories tape-recording the stories of its aboriginal residents and the ...southerners who came to live among them. His new book, "High Latitudes: A Journey Through the Canadian North," recalls that trip and the impact of Canadian institutions on the people of the North. In this excerpt, Mowat tells the tragic story of a group of Inuit families relocated to the High Arctic Archipelago by the Hudson's Bay Company.
The north atlantic is a hungry ocean, hungry for men and ships, and it knows how to satisfy its appetites. From September through to June a sequence of almost perpetual gales march eastward down the ...great ditch of the St Lawrence valley and out to the waiting sea. They are abetted by the hurricanes which spawn in the Caribbean and which drive north-eastward up the coasts as far as Labrador. Only in summer are there periods of relative calm on the eastern approaches to the continent, and even in summer, fierce storms are common.
Gales, and the high seas that
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