Download or read book Ragged Islands written by Don Hannah and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dark, nothing but darkness, thick and deep, and it wasn’t home, she could sense that, it was somewhere else. Susan Ann was trying to think, trying to remember the last thing she remembered — what day was this?” (p. 2) It is September 11, 2001, and eighty-five-year-old Susan Ann Roberts is coming to the end of her life. In and out of consciousness, she is bedridden in a Toronto hospital, confused as to what has brought her to this place. Her daughter, Lorraine, and beloved granddaughter, Meg, are by her side but they seem unable (or unwilling) to take her home. Susan Ann isn’t exactly sure where home is anymore. Lorraine had insisted her mother move to Toronto, worried about her living alone in the big house back east. Ever since, Susan Ann has been trapped—stuck in an unfamiliar city in a too-small apartment where things are so cramped that the dresser drawers in her bedroom open only partway. Susan Ann resolves that she will return home to the Maritimes one last time. Her journey begins at the bottom of the laneway of the New Brunswick farm where she spent her summers, and takes her to the town where she grew up, and then across the ponds and rivers of the Tantramar Marshes, all the way to Nova Scotia and Ragged Islands, where she had made her home with her devoted husband and children. As she travels on foot along old roads and visits the lost houses of her memory, Susan Ann is kept company by a dog from her distant past. Her unlikely guide propels Susan Ann forward, leading her ever closer to the place where she hopes to reunite with her husband. Along the way, they meet various people from Susan Ann’s life: a neighbour who died in a fire with her four siblings; the man who was her brother in all the most important ways; and a young woman who may hold the key to one of the great mysteries of Susan Ann’s life: why did her mother give her away to relatives to raise, despite the fact that she kept children who were born both before and after her? Meanwhile, Susan Ann’s son, Carl, is at his mother’s Toronto apartment sorting through her belongings. He comes across an envelope labelled TO BE SAVED. In it, he discovers assorted papers, letters, and pictures that reveal his mother’s life as a woman and a wife, not just a mother. Old wounds are opened, unanswerable questions are asked, and mysteries are both solved and created. In Ragged Islands, Don Hannah has given us a moving, witty, and tender portrait of a remarkably modern old woman at the end of a life bound by tradition and family secrets, blessed with great love, and rocked by events in the outside world. Coloured with intimate portraits of a family that seems almost familiar, Susan Ann’s journey suggests an answer to the question of what happens to the soul when the body begins to die. The final pages lead us to question what parts of a life remain behind for others to discover, how a family remembers those who have died, and where life’s final journey will take us.

Download or read book Sailing Directions enroute for the Caribbean Sea written by United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Islands of Boston Harbor written by Edward Rowe Snow and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of Edward Rowe Snow's first book, covering the legends and history of nearly every rock and island in Boston Harbor, including Boston Light and Graves Light. The first (1935) edition resulted from research Snow did at Harvard under the tutelage of the great maritime historian Samuel Eliot Morison. When the 1971 edition of the book was published, a critic for the Boston Post wrote, "Mr. Snow has the gift of making his subject vivid and personal in its anecdotal touches . . . It is a volume of chatty yet dignified essays, with many a light touch brought in." This centennial edition contains the complete 1971 text, with annotations by Jeremy D'Entremont to bring the information up to date.

Download or read book H O Pub written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Field and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sailing Directions enroute for the Caribbean Sea written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special Publication written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Coast Pilot written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Directory for the Navigation of the North Pacific Ocean written by Alexander George Findlay and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Coast Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book West Coast of Hindustan Pilot written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Newfoundland and Labrador Pilot written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book West Indies Pilot written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sailing Directions enroute written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Columbia Pilot The coast of British Columbia from the strait of Juan de Fucal to Cape Caution including Vancouver island and the inland passages written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Coast Pilot written by Edmund March Blunt and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 2004 Atlantic Boating Almanac written by and published by ProStar Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 Atlantic Boating Almanac Volume 4 covers the Eastern United States coastline from the St. Johns River, Florida to Key West, Florida and the Bahamas. Within this text is information covering U.S. coast piloting, tide and current tables, electronics, maps and charts, weather, navigation, and first aid.