DM Patric Ryan

Surviving Well is the Best Revenge: Montreal 1960

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Surviving Well Is the Best Rev Nr.2
• Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780969800330
• ISBN-10: 0969800339
• Artikelnr.: 57995222

Autorenporträt

Patric Ryan was born to write and paint about ships and oceans, raised in Southwestern Ontario, near and in the water but far from the ocean. How he and his mate got to the ocean is a story in itself. Patric has a rich experience of life on the water, from Captain of a steamboat on the Muskokas to commercial diving and fish tugs on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. In 1980 he and the crew of a fishing tug out of Tobermory Ontario rescued the crew of a sinking Newfoundland freighter. For the rescue the crew received the Governor General's Medal of Bravery and a subsequent journey to Newfoundland to buy a fishing schooner opened the flood gates of stories and art work that has been Patric's full time obsession ever since. Patric and his wife Dorie spent six months in Newfoundland rebuilding the old schooner and making friends. The memoir called 'Closing the Newfoundland Circles' tells the story of how Patric and Dorie met, their young lives and influences and their adventure travelling to Newfoundland, rebuilding a classic fishing schooner and returning across the storm tossed Gulf of St. Lawrence and the voyage up the St. Lawrence Seaway to Georgian Bay. The old schooner was rebuilt and rigged, Dorie made the sails, and then sold to a fisherman in Alaska as the couple began their family; two beautiful girls and a lifetime of art and literature, building boats and houses and reliving the Newfoundland treasures of stories and friends in several novels and hundreds of paintings. Look for the Fogo's War Trilogy and the Surviving Well Series online and at Independent Book Stores.