The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea

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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 164421153X
Total Pages : 255 pages
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Download or read book The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea written by Barry Gifford and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A childhood in the 1950s and ‘60s among grifters, show girls, and mob enforcers who embraced the boy and made him who he is. “These stories make for one of the most important and moving American bildungsromans of all time.” —William Boyle, The Southwest Review Roy tells it the way he sees it, shuttled between Chicago to Key West and Tampa, Havana and Jackson MS, usually with his mother Kitty, often in the company of lip-sticked women and fast men. Roy is the muse of Gifford’s hardboiled style, a precocious child, watching the grown-ups try hard to save themselves, only to screw up again and again. He takes it all in, every waft of perfume and cigar smoke, every missed opportunity to do the right thing. And then there are the good things too. A fishing trip with Uncle Buck, a mother’s love, advice from Rudy, Roy’s father: “Roy means king. Be the king of your own country. Don’t depend on anyone to do your thinking for you.” The stories in The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea are together a love letter and a tribute to the childhood experiences that ground a life. In the Author’s note, Gifford writes, “I have often been asked if I were interested in writing my memoirs or an autobiography. Given that the Roy stories come as close as I care to come regarding certain circumstances, I remain comfortable with their verisimilitude. They all dwell within the boundary of fiction. As I have explained elsewhere, these are stories, I made them up. Roy ages from about five years old to late adolescence. After that, with the exception of a sighting in Veracruz, I have no idea what happened to him.” “The way Barry Gifford lets people talk articulates everything about their unfamiliar inner lives, and ours." —Boston Globe

Ran Away to Sea

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Total Pages : 359 pages
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Download or read book Ran Away to Sea written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ran Away to Sea: an Autobiography for Boys

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Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book Ran Away to Sea: an Autobiography for Boys written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ran Away to Sea

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ISBN 13 : 9780461812756
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Ran Away to Sea written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Ran Away to Sea

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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Ran Away to Sea written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ran Away to Sea, an Autobiography for Boys (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 13 : 9781330613245
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Book Synopsis Ran Away to Sea, an Autobiography for Boys (Classic Reprint) by : Captain Mayne Reid

Download or read book Ran Away to Sea, an Autobiography for Boys (Classic Reprint) written by Captain Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ran Away to Sea, an Autobiography for Boys I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea. I did not do so because I had been treated unkindly at home. On the contrary, I left behind me a fond and indulgent father, a kind and gentle mother, sisters and brothers who loved me, and who lamented for me long after I was gone. But no one had more cause to regret this act of filial disobedience than I myself. I soon repented of what I had done, and often, in after life, did it give me pain, when I reflected upon the pain which I had caused to my kindred and friends. From my earliest years I had a longing for the sea, - perhaps not so much to be a sailor, as to travel over the great ocean, and behold its wonders. This longing seemed to he part of my nature, for my parents gave 110 encouragement to such a disposition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Boy and the Sea

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647003180
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Boy and the Sea written by Camille Andros and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book meditation on curiosity, wonder, and finding one’s way In this lyrical picture book, readers follow one boy through his life as he returns to the seashore beside his home. The boy likes to think, and his thoughts turn into questions. He brings these questions to the sea. At times, he thinks he can hear the sea whisper to him: Dream. Love. Be. So he does. He dreams—a young boy imagining all that he might do. He loves—a teenager, reaching out from a lonely place to make friends. He allows himself to just be—now grown, sharing the seashore with his daughter. A celebration of quiet curiosity, The Boy and the Sea invites readers to ask questions and live their way into the answers.

Running Away to Sea

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Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770705198
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Running Away to Sea written by George Fetherling and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a turning point in his life, George Fetherling embarked on an adventure to sail round the world on one of the last of the tramp freighters. The four-month voyage carried him 30,000 nautical miles from Europe via the Panama Canal to the South Pacific and back by way of Singapore, Indonesia, the Indian Ocean, and Suez. Written with dash, colour, and droll humour, Fetherling's narrative is peopled by a rich cast of characters, from the Foreign Legionnaires of French Polynesia to the raskol gangs of Papua New Guinea. The author captures the reality of life aboard a working cargo ship – the boredom, the seclusion, the differences of nationality and culture that isolation and cramped quarters seem to exaggerate. But the routine of loneliness or tranquility is punctuated by moments of near-panic – shipboard fires, furniture-smashing storms, even a brush with pirates in the Straits of Malacca.

Ran Away to Sea

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Total Pages : 359 pages
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Download or read book Ran Away to Sea written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 349 pages
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Paddle-to-the-Sea

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395150825
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Paddle-to-the-Sea written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1941 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small canoe carved by an Indian boy makes a journey from Lake Superior all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

The Day That Went Missing

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316418463
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Day That Went Missing written by Richard Beard and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spellbinding, terrifying, deeply moving" -- an unflinching portrait of a family's silent grief, and the tragic death of a brother not spoken about for forty years (Joanna Rakoff). On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and his younger brother Nicholas are jumping in the waves. Suddenly, Nicholas is out of his depth. One moment he's there, the next he's gone. Richard and his other brothers don't attend the funeral, and incredibly the family returns immediately to the same cottage -- to complete the holiday, to carry on, in the best British tradition. They soon stop speaking of the catastrophe. Their epic act of collective denial writes Nicky out of the family memory. Nearly forty years later, Richard, an acclaimed novelist, is haunted by the missing piece of his childhood, the unexpressed and unacknowledged grief at his core. He doesn't even know the date of his brother's death or the name of the beach where the tragedy occurred. So he sets out on a painstaking investigation to rebuild Nicky's life, and ultimately to recreate the precise events on the day of the accident. The Day That Went Missing is a transcendent story of guilt and forgiveness, of reckoning with unspeakable loss. But, above all, it is a brother's most tender act of remembrance, and a man's brave act of survival. Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2018

Ran Away to Sea

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Total Pages : 532 pages
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Download or read book Ran Away to Sea written by Mayne Reid and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Escape From Home (Beyond the Western Sea #1)

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545392470
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Escape From Home (Beyond the Western Sea #1) written by Avi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avi's suspense-filled, seafaring adventure gets a bold new package!It's 1851. Fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick are about to set sail on an epic voyage to America to flee the brutal poverty of Ireland and to be reunited with their father.Eleven-year-old Laurence Kirkle, the son of an English lord, runs away from home to escape his cruel older brother and start a new life in a new world.All three children face nothing but obstacles along the way--from stolen money to con men to hunger and fatigue. It seems that none of them will get out of the port city of Liverpool until fate brings them together. Avi's masterful plot-spinning skills create an adventure filled with unexpected twists and turns.

My Side of the Mountain

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593115007
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book My Side of the Mountain written by Jean Craighead George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

Town Is by the Sea

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Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554988721
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Town Is by the Sea written by Joanne Schwartz and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Winner of the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather’s grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner with his family, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea. Stunning illustrations by Sydney Smith, the award-winning illustrator of Sidewalk Flowers, show the striking contrast between a sparkling seaside day and the darkness underground where the miners dig. With curriculum connections to communities and the history of mining, this beautifully understated and haunting story brings a piece of Canadian history to life. The ever-present ocean and inevitable pattern of life in a Cape Breton mining town will enthrall children and move adult readers.

Ran Away to Sea

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732675335
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Ran Away to Sea written by Captain Mayne Reid and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Ran Away to Sea by Captain Mayne Reid