Author: Evert Bay Scott
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453536779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
After spending more of his youth tugging on clam rakes than he did in classrooms, and most of his adult years dealing with the not so honest characters of New York Citys toughest fish markets, Evert Bay Scott decided to write of it. He wanted to tell of his life and take his readers out there with him, along the shores of Long Island. Mr. Scott takes you on board telling about the run-ins, characters and con men that he came to know on the darker side of the clamming game; the side he wound up on. So hold on tight, this adventure on the Great South Bay is about to set sail!
The Bay Men
Author: Evert Bay Scott
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453536779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
After spending more of his youth tugging on clam rakes than he did in classrooms, and most of his adult years dealing with the not so honest characters of New York Citys toughest fish markets, Evert Bay Scott decided to write of it. He wanted to tell of his life and take his readers out there with him, along the shores of Long Island. Mr. Scott takes you on board telling about the run-ins, characters and con men that he came to know on the darker side of the clamming game; the side he wound up on. So hold on tight, this adventure on the Great South Bay is about to set sail!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453536779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
After spending more of his youth tugging on clam rakes than he did in classrooms, and most of his adult years dealing with the not so honest characters of New York Citys toughest fish markets, Evert Bay Scott decided to write of it. He wanted to tell of his life and take his readers out there with him, along the shores of Long Island. Mr. Scott takes you on board telling about the run-ins, characters and con men that he came to know on the darker side of the clamming game; the side he wound up on. So hold on tight, this adventure on the Great South Bay is about to set sail!
The Baymen's Wake
Author: Evert Bay Scott
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479786748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
As the final chapter in Evert Bay Scotts life drifts off, he looks back. Hes still out there, hiding within that great bays shadows; only this time, hes digging up the past, not clams. Poachers and pirates still wander about his boat. Friends and family are also close by. But the answer Mr. Scott is trying hardest to find this night continues to elude him. So why dont you come on board and join this crew of characters? Who knows, maybe youll be the one who finds just what Mr. Scott has been searching for!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479786748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
As the final chapter in Evert Bay Scotts life drifts off, he looks back. Hes still out there, hiding within that great bays shadows; only this time, hes digging up the past, not clams. Poachers and pirates still wander about his boat. Friends and family are also close by. But the answer Mr. Scott is trying hardest to find this night continues to elude him. So why dont you come on board and join this crew of characters? Who knows, maybe youll be the one who finds just what Mr. Scott has been searching for!
The Men of the Gambier Bay
Author: Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781585746439
Category : Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the vivid story of men at all levels-from the captain to the seamen-and the Japanese they faced in battle, first at the Marianas in June 1944 and finally on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In that engagement, the Navy bloodied the Japanese sorely, but at a grim price: The Gambier Bay became the only U.S. aircraft carrier in World War II to be sunk by naval gunfire. The story of the Gambier Bay is a tale of uncommon courage under fire.
Publisher: Globe Pequot
ISBN: 9781585746439
Category : Leyte Gulf, Battle of, Philippines, 1944
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the vivid story of men at all levels-from the captain to the seamen-and the Japanese they faced in battle, first at the Marianas in June 1944 and finally on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In that engagement, the Navy bloodied the Japanese sorely, but at a grim price: The Gambier Bay became the only U.S. aircraft carrier in World War II to be sunk by naval gunfire. The story of the Gambier Bay is a tale of uncommon courage under fire.
The Bay of Contented Men
Author: Robert Drewe
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742284574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Witty and seductive, inventive and disturbing, The Bay of Contented Men ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Australians whose desires and misadventures are conjured here into intriguing fictions. Robert Drewe's characters face the confrontation of gender, race and generation with an ironic desperation born of love, lust and wistful memory.
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742284574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Witty and seductive, inventive and disturbing, The Bay of Contented Men ranges in location from east to west coast Australia, to the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. This is the neighbourhood of edgy suburbanite Australians whose desires and misadventures are conjured here into intriguing fictions. Robert Drewe's characters face the confrontation of gender, race and generation with an ironic desperation born of love, lust and wistful memory.
Men's Lives
Author: Peter Matthiessen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once quiet shore.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once quiet shore.
Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time
Author: John Henniker Heaton
Publisher: Sydney [etc.] G. Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Australasia
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher: Sydney [etc.] G. Robertson
ISBN:
Category : Australasia
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
Author: Richard Allsopp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766401450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766401450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.
New York Railroad Men
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
Book Description
Coastal Pollution in the New York Bight and Mid-Atlantic
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description