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 enlarge | Author: Farley Mowat
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 356101
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 1585742406
Dewey Decimal Number: 387.550916344
EAN: 9781585742400
ASIN: 1585742406
Publication Date: April 1, 2001
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 Tug Salvage at its Best January 25, 2003
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This tale of the Foundation Franklin and her crew is a must read for any tugboat lover.
boring for the landsmen December 6, 2002
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The repitition of storms and salvage can be boring unless you have experienced the storm at sea or been savaged by weather. A warm and dry reader might not ever appreciate what the FOUNDATION FRANKLIN and her crew went through. The North Atlantic in winter is a death trap for any weakness in a vessel and this book pays tribute to those who time and time again risked their lives in salvage and rescue. A must read for anyone who knows the sea.
 Poster child for never-ending overwrought hyperbole August 28, 2002
1 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book starts out with a fevered pace of "men against the sea". The real problem is that it details perhaps 30 salvage jobs which are all in essence the same thing described in the same breathless overwrought prose. How many descriptions of a "hard blow making up" or a "lee shore awaiting her victim" can you take in one book. Give this one a pass.
A deeply compelling tale December 27, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Farley Mowat has the ability to tell in his sing-song Canuck cadence the most fascinating tales... the color and depth of the characters, the times and thier circumstance. This story is my favorite. You can practically smell the fumes of the fuel-oil reacting to the boiler plate. The close air inside a ship as water sloshes back and forth as she violently rolls while her men preform a heroic feat... not just staying afloat, but rescuing other vessels in this mahem. Yup, she's a pageturner.
Pure Salt! December 23, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you enjoy the Jack Aubrey novels as much as I do, you'll doubless be taken by this more modern sea story.Mowat is a contemporary writer of fiction and non-fiction about Canada and the north, covering natural science, Eskimos, archeology and autobiography. He also writes authoritatively about the sea. This book has salt on every page. It is the story of the conversion of a rusty British WWI seagoing tug into the "Foundation Franklin," a seagoing salvage vessel, working out of Newfoundland or Nova Scotia. There was a real Franklin salvage company on which this very realistic novel is based. Those who have sailed on weather patrol or to Greenland, or to other stormy seas, will relish the salt spray and dangerous hawser-passing and towing. You will experience the bitter along with the triumphs as the crew is frustrated by losing the tow or arriving too late at the job, thus throwing the expense of the attempt into the foam. A splendid book! Incidentally, one of Mowat's autobiographical books, "The Dog Who Wouldn't Be," is about the funniest book I have ever read. ISBN 0-553-27928-9.
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