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  • Series: Globe and Mail Best Books
  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Emblem Editions (October 13, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0771064675
  • ISBN-13: 978-0771064678
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsA tale of two loves...but you'll want more of both.
By M. Chapman on August 19, 2007
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This is the tale of two love stories -- one covered extensively, one almost glossed over by books' end.

Farley Mowat came to Newfoundland in the early 1960s and fell in love, both with the land and its people, and with a young artist named Claire Wheeler. It's the former that Mowat dwells upon the most in this book, and as a reader I left frustrated because we learn so comparatively little about Claire and about their life together. It takes 1/3 of the book for Mowat to reveal that he was married when he met Claire, and that the the tug of his family -- including two sons -- delayed his eventual divorce. His former family is dismissed in a paragraph.

Having faced the music, Mowat settles down with Claire aboard his famously unseaworthy boat, "Happy Adventure", the star the classic "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float." Readers of "The Boat" will be startled by anecdotes, names and dates changing from one book to another. It gives creedence to the charge leveled against Mowat that he never lets the facts get in the way of a good story.

Ultimately this lovely book covers a period of but seven years, and ends just after Mowat's futile attempt to stop the people of his adopted home of Burgeo from killing a whale that has become trapped in a tidal pond. The whale died, the locals were savaged by the press, and the Mowats decided it was time to leave Burgeo and venture in Happy Adventure to Expo 67 (a voyage that nearly ended many times, if "The Boat" is to be believed.)

This is a wonderful book but I wanted more -- what happened to Happy Adventure? What happened to Mowat's sons? Where did they settle after the Expo trip? Much has happened between 1967 and now! -- I hope to hear more about the Mowat's voyages though these most interesting times.
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5.0 out of 5 starsStorm-tossed and falling in love - with a place and a woman
By Lynn Harnett VINE VOICE on May 31, 2007
Format: Hardcover
Farley Mowat's notion of an idyllic day's sail more often than not involves heavy seas in shallow, rocky waters, accompanied by gale force winds, pelting rain and/or pea-soup fog, in a leaky boat with engine issues.

Therefore armchair adventurers will enjoy this memoir of Mowat's 1960s love affair with "a special woman and a special world" as much as romantic sorts looking for travel among the bygone fishing villages of Newfoundland.

Readers familiar with Mowat, however, will know there must be bitter with the sweet. The Newfie fishing communities, fiercely independent and attached to their way of life like limpets to a rock, were in serious decline by the 1960s. The teeming schools of fish had disappeared under the relentless onslaught of the big fishing operations and the government wanted to resettle the fishermen in factory towns, bringing Newfoundland (which had only joined Canada in 1949) squarely into the 20th century.

The book opens with Mowat's harrowing and exhilarating trip aboard a 200-foot coastal steamer, one of six (now gone), which took freight and passengers to the outposts of Newfoundland, their main contact with the world.

"Newfoundland is of the sea. A mighty granite stopper thrust into the mouth of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, its coasts present more than five thousand miles of rocky headlands, bays, capes, and fiords to the sweep of the Atlantic. Everywhere hidden reefs, which are called, with dreadful explicitness, sunkers, wait to rip open the bellies of unwary vessels."

Though Mowat saw little of the coast, due to foul weather and impenetrable fog, he was hooked. He bought a fish-slimed schooner, renamed it Happy Adventure and arranged to have it refitted for cruising.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsHe Still Has My Respect
By Roman Descendant on October 12, 2015
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I had to set aside my feelings about a married man with two young children at home somewhere in Canada cavorting around Newfoundland with a young woman in this sometimes sex and alcohol-fueled story and try to remember not only his message but that Mowat's recent death left us with one less friend of the earth. I read Born Naked recently and it was clear that as a child he was given free rein to do whatever he wanted and also had the example of a serially unfaithful father.

There are hard parts to read and I had to skip over them. I did not read the final chapter as I don't want it in my memory. The rest of the book was enjoyable. The people of this land were so interesting. The book suffers from a virtual lack of maps even though he is constantly talking about places along the coasts that the reader needs to visualize.

No matter what, Farley Mowat did so much for the beings on this earth who have no voice. I liked him immensely.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother "used" book in pristine condition
By B Stewart on December 28, 2012
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Exceedingly happy with the condition of this used book by author Farley Mowat. It was a gift for a family member this Christmas who is eagerly consuming all that Mowat has written. This book arrived promptly and in "like new" condition.
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