Bay of Spirits: A Love Story (Globe and Mail Best Books)

Bay of Spirits: A Love Story (Globe and Mail Best Books)
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In 1957, Farley Mowat shipped out aboard one of Newfoundlandâ€™s famous coastal steamers, tramping from outport to outport along the southwest coast. The indomitable spirit of the people and the bleak beauty of the landscape would lure him back again and again over the years. In the process of falling in love with a people and a place, Mowat also met the woman who would be the great love of his life.

A stunningly beautiful and talented young artist, Claire Wheeler insouciantly climbed aboard Farleyâ€™s beloved but jinxed schooner as it lay on the St. Pierre docks, once again in a cradle for repairs, and changed both their lives forever. This is the story of that love affair, of summers spent sailing the Newfoundland coast, and of their decision to start their life together in Burgeo, one of the provinceâ€™s last remaining outports. It is also an unforgettable portrait of the last of the outport people and a way of life that had survived for centuries but was now passing forever.

Affectionate, unsentimental, this is a burnished gem from an undiminished talent.

I was inside my vessel painting the cabin when I heard the sounds of a scuffle nearby. I poked my head out the companionway in time to see a lithesome young woman swarming up the ladder which leaned against Happy Adventureâ€™s flank. Whining expectantly, the shipyard dog was endeavouring to follow this attractive stranger. I could see why. As slim and graceful as a ballet dancer (which, I would later learn, was one of her avocations), she appeared to be wearing a gleaming golden helmet (her own smoothly bobbed head of hair) and was as radiantly lovely as any Saxon goddess. I invited her aboard, while pushing the dog down the ladder.

â€œThatâ€™s only Blanche,â€ I reassured my visitor. â€œHe wonâ€™t bite. Heâ€™s just, uh . . . being friendly.â€

â€œThatâ€™s nice to know,â€ she said sweetly. Then she smiled . . . and I was lost.
â€“From Bay of Spirits

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Brand Emblem Editions
Manufacturer McClelland & Stewart
Binding Paperback
Color Tan
ReleaseDate 2009-10-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780771064678

Country	USA
Brand	Emblem Editions
Manufacturer	McClelland & Stewart
Binding	Paperback
Color	Tan
ReleaseDate	2009-10-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780771064678

Bay of Spirits: A Love Story (Globe and Mail Best Books)

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