trembling adventures confessions beachcomber

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1 review
H. W. Patterson

Dixon Price Publishing, 2003

Recommended for aspiring and dedicated boatbuilders
Originally published in 1916, Small Boat Building has withstood the test of time as a core how-to reference for the amateur boatbuilder. Illustrated with simple black-and-white diagrams, Small Boat Building guides the reader through selecting the right types of wood, fasteners, using tools to lay down lines, set up molds, and build the keel and the ribcage, optimum techniques for success, and ...

Writing for Trade Magazines: How to Boost Your Income by $200 to $500 per Week

3 reviews
Kendall Hanson

Dixon Price Publishing, 1999

This is an incredibly useful book, one of a kind !
There are very few books in Hanson's field (I should know, I reviewed over 1,000!), and this book is by far the best of the lot! The book is a veritable tour-de-force by a highly knowledgable writer/editor/journalist, with detailed, easy-to-read and eminently practical advice for novice and practitioner alike. The book's pages are studded with insights, tantalizing ideas, and marketing ...

A Beachcomber in the Orient

1 review
Harry, L. Foster

Dixon-Price Publishing, 2005

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This guy travels Borneo, Siam, French Indo-China, Japan, the Malay States, and the Phillipines in the early 20s. And not one dull page in all 395 of 'em.. It was simply wonderful reading, with not a few laughs. He travels on freight cars among pigs, walks through the jungle, and meets the most fascinating people and goes to the most interesting places. It was all great! One caveat, however. ...

The Ebbing of the Tide
Louis Becke

Dixon-Price Publishing, 2008

This second collection of Louis Becke's stories highlights the rough side of paradise. Love, lust, honor, betrayal, passion, indifference, honesty, and villainy--all these traits are shared by native and foreigner alike in these tales of adventure, greed, and passion. First published in the late 19th Century, Becke spoke to an audience hungry for information about the South Seas. But even as it was being penned, the region he knew so well had ...

The Confessions of a Beachcomber

4 reviews
E. J. Banfield

Dixon Price Publishing, 2001

A man who left a high-stress, dead-end career
The Confessions Of A Beachcomber is the fascinating autobiography of a man who left a high-stress, dead-end career to live the simple live of a beachcomber on Dunk Island off the northern coast of Queensland, Australia. An avowed disciple of Thoreau, Banfield sough as simple a life as possible and maintained that life on his tropical island for twenty-five years. He involved himself in observing ...

A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building
Richard, M Van Gaasbeek

Dixon Price Publishing, 2007

Originally published on the eve of WWI, A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building was developed to train carpenters and other woodworkers in the practical aspects of building a wooden ship.

A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe

3 reviews
J. MacGregor

Dixon Price Publishing, 2000

Not only a significant part of history, but a great read.
This is the book that single-handedly launched not only modern canoeing and kayaking, but most modern small boating. It is absolutely marvelous to read-- fun in it's own right, and also a time capsule that allows you to travel back in time 150 years and see how many things have changed and how many things have not.

The Trembling of a Leaf

4 reviews
W. Somerset Maugham

Dixon Price Publishing, 2002

Great short stories for Somerset Maugham lovers!
This book consists of 8 short stories, many of them playing in the South Sea Islands. After reading this book you will want to go there and enjoy the beauty of life. Beautifully written, a pure pleasure to read!

The Adventures of a Tropical Tramp

2 reviews
Harry L. Foster

Dixon Price Publishing, 2000

A well-written tale of a lost era.
A minor gem. This forgotten book is a classic travel-adventure set in 1920 Peru. Hats off to Dixon-Price Publishing for resurrecting it. Pity that the copy-editing was not done a little more skillfully, as there are a number of typo's and mis-used homonyms in the book the product of unskilled use of computer spell checker. Still, this is a minor quibble. (A map would have been nice too). Harry ...

By Reef and Palm

2 reviews
Louis Becke

Dixon Price Publishing, 2002

Reflecting a lawless era in candid, nothing-is-sacred prose
Originally in the late 1890s, By Reef And Palm is Australian author Louis Becke's thoroughly amusing collection of short-story "yarns" about daily life in the Pacific Islands that has been brought out in a new addition by Dixon-Price Publishing and will aptly serve to introduce a whole new generation of readers to the work of a man reputed in his lifetime to be the "Kipling of the Pacific". ...

White Shadows in the South Seas

1 review
Frederick O'Brien

Dixon Price Publishing, 2001

Purple Prose Majesty
Was there ever a more romantic title than "White Shadows in the South Seas?" The book sold like hotcakes in the early 1920s and a movie of it won an Oscar in 1928. I suspect, however, that a lot of the popularity of the book was due to photographs of undraped Polynesian women and hints of sexual delights. One of the female characters is named "Vanquished Often." This is pretty racy for 1921, ...

Down the Columbia

1 review
Lewis R. Freeman

Dixon Price Publishing, 2001

A vividly presented adventure
Down The Columbia by outdoor enthusiast and river expert Lewis Freeman is a wild and exciting memoir of a bold journey down the Columbia river, before the Grand Coulee and other dams somewhat calmed its rushing flows. Filled with respect for the majesty and savagery of Nature, Down The Columbia is a vividly presented adventure highly recommended for armchair travelers who aren't afraid to get ...

The Wholesale Candy Company

1 review
Robert L. Watters

Dixon-Price Publishing, 2004

True read that reflects the endless cycle of life itself
The Wholesale Candy Company is the wistful memoir of a family's candy company from its creation in 1912, success in the 1920s, and its eventual delince during the Great Depression. Reflecting the business' rise and fall through the eyes of a young man growing up at the time, The Wholesale Candy Company is the true story of the bittersweet memory of watching something that one loved and labred ...

White Shadows in the South Seas

Boat-Building and Boating

Dixon Price Publishing, 2001

The author enthusiastically details construction and operation dos and don'ts for everything from simple rafts and birch-bark canoes to a small sailboat and a speedy motor-boat. Perfect for beginners with minimal skills in the art of boat-building and a valuable guide to Scouts, campers, and outdoors enthusiasts. 238 illustrations.

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