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The Latest of Books by Spencer Apollonio:
"Lands that Hold One Spellbound"
A STORY OF EAST GREENLAND Northern Lights Series, University of Calgary Press, www.uofcpress.com Co published with the Arctic Institute of North America. ~ "Far north, hidden behind grim barriers of pack ice, are the lands that hold one spellbound. Gigantic imaginary gates, with hinges set in the horizon, seem to guard these lands. Slowly the gates swing open, and one enters another world where men are insignificant amid the awesome immensity of lonely mountains, fjords and glaciers."---Louise Boyd, 1935.
Have you ever been curious of the way of early explorers, curious of the methods of transport over impossible odds and have you ever asked yourself, "How would I survive facing these overwhelming, harsh conditions?" Here Spencer Apollonio conveys the sting of a Greenland winter, the biting cold of 30 and 40 below, and the roar of incessant, raging gales with the ship locked in, incapacitated by frozen iceberg ravaged waters. He quotes the resident doctor in November 1874: "From time to time there were perfect hurricane gusts, causing the ice-bound ship to quiver throughout: such weather we had never experienced. If we ventured beyond the closely-shut hatchways on to the deck, we were nearly deafened by the blustering, roaring, and crashing with which the wind broke upon he ship and howled around it."
Lands that Hold One Spellbound is one of those books that hold the reader spellbound, page after page, paragraph after paragraph. It is a fascinating account of the history of an immense land of great mountains and fjords, of glaciers and meadowlands, and contrasts of weather perhaps unique in our world. Don't miss it....
Spencer Apollonio lives in Maine. He is a retired marine biologist and a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA). He has made fourteen trips t the Arctic and, in the 1960s, established AINA's Devon Island Research Station. Contact publisher or your local book store for your copy.$34.95
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are usually perceived as vessels of the nineteenth
century or earlier. Yet these graceful,
multi-masted beauties actually sailed on
into the 1950s before they disappeared from the seas forever. The Last of the Cape Horners
is
an exciting anthology of the best-written and most-representative
accounts of life aboard commercial square-rigged sailing ships in the
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Veteran sailor Spencer Apollonio has drawn from many little-known
sources for these accounts of life aboard the last of the American,
English, Scottish, and Finnish �
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 "It was bad everywhere--- aloft, on the bridge, at the wheel, on the open poop, on the open deck, in the icy water-- wet and cold, tough all around, everyman fighting to save the ship...." Ray
Wilmore..
"Square Rigger Around the Horn"
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Arranged in
the sequence of a voyage around the world, the accounts outline the
general nature of commercial activities, routes and ports of call, and
the gradual decline of commercial sailing ships. Apollonio includes a full range of exciting and
dangerous action, as well as everyday ship-board experiences. With clear explanations of the technical
aspects of sailing these tall ships and with lively accounts of life on
board, The Last of the |
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Spence
Apollonio is a marine biologist who
has conducted research in the Arctic seas and the Order
by Email: Potomacbooksinc.com Write or call: Potomac Books Inc.
Other writing by Spencer Apollonio
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Hierarchical Perspectives on Marine
Complexities: Searching for Systems in the Gulf
of Maine
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Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A story
of � An Enormous, Immensely Complicated Intervention: Groundfish and The New England Fishery Management Council.
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