Theatre of Fish Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador

Name: Theatre of Fish Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador
Price: 4.98 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781400043224

ISBN-10: 1400043220

ISBN-13: 9781400043224

Edition: 2005

Authors: John Gimlette

List price: $25.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $8.04

Marketplace

4 new & used from $4.98

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

An extraordinary journey across the magnificent, delinquent coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. John Gimlette’s journey across this harsh and awesome landscape, the eastern extreme of the Americas, broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his great-grandfather, who spent a summer there as a doctor in 1893, and who was witness to some of the most beautiful ice and cruelest poverty in the British Empire. Using Curwen’s extraordinarily frank journal, John Gimlette revisits the places his great-grandfather encountered and along the way explores his own links with this harsh, often brutal, land. At the heart of the book however, are the “outporters,” the present-day inhabitants of these…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/6/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



St. John's


Planting Avalon (and reaping the storm)


North with the floaters


Down Labrador


Back via old new France


Baby bonus