Download or read book Gilly the Ghillie written by David Giblin and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall tales of coastal adventures, colourful locals, privileged tourists, and elusive fish abound in this hilariously offbeat sequel to The Codfish Dream. "David Giblin is a marvellous storyteller."—Ian Ferguson, author of The Survival Guide to British Columbia David Giblin's stint as a seasonal salmon fishing guide on Stuart Island provides a seemingly endless supply of hilarious and bizarre stories that reveal as much about the quirkiness of small coastal communities as they do about human nature itself. Now, in his second book of short interconnected stories set in the 1980s, Giblin introduces us to Gilly, the first female fishing guide to grace the tiny island, whose mere presence is enough to shake the foundations of the very insular, all-male guiding community. With the return of delightfully eccentric characters including VOP, Troutbreath, Lucky Peterson, and Wet Lenny, this rollicking maritime adventure will appeal to anyone who ever gutted a fish and lived to tell the tale.

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Download or read book The English Dialect Dictionary Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years F M written by Joseph Wright and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Dictionary of British and American Homophones written by Stephen N. Williams and published by Barrie Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Fun With Scrabble Homonyms and Beyond Guide to Pronunciation written by Prof. Dave La. Cash and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I came up with this idea upon noticing the Scrabble dictionaries did not have the pronunciations so I thought of making it into a fun book and at the same time helping the reader/player recall certain words such as blagging, cwm, mux, offal, stonking, and woopie, including my attempt at using them in the same sentence. With over 2,000 sets of homonyms and more than 5,000 words, I also have bonuses at the end of the book to add some more fun.

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