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| Author | : Jo May |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2014-12-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781503313286 |
A Barge at Large is a light-hearted, humorous account of what happened when Jo and Jan May took time out to live on a boat. Although based around the waterways of Europe there's plenty here for non-boaters as they travel from the north of Holland to Burgundy in France. Their small barge was built in Groningen, Holland over 100 years ago and was in a sorry state when they bought her. In the early days there were times when they wondered what they'd done - the engine barely ran, the heating system didn't work and the rusty patches were growing like fungus on an old loaf. Professional help was generally unaffordable so they learned to do things themselves. Over time they gradually improved things to the point where they could at least have lunch without an alarm going off. Living on a barge is a life of compromise, less space yet more freedom, less cash but richer. There's no keeping up with the Jones' - if anyone starts being pompous they untie the ropes and go somewhere else. Travelling on rivers, lakes and canals can be exciting or frightening and the reader is offered a unique perspective on an alternative way of life. The book relates the pleasures and quirks of new countries and the joy of meeting a wacky assortment of people. What's clear is that there's not really a typical boater, they are all different, having drifted into this watery existence from any number of directions. There are common problems such as misbehaving lavatories and dribbly windows but also shared delights such as the wildlife, windmills and wine.
| Author | : Jonah Winter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780375952180 |
When a little town on Long Island is inundated with garbage, its citizens become more environmentally aware, while a garbage barge travels the North American coast in search of a dumping location.
| Author | : Meghan McCarthy |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2018-02-27 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1481477536 |
An ALA Notable Book “The year was 1987 and a ship full of trash was about to become famous…The narrative is immensely readable…A fresh take on a story of old garbage guaranteed to spark conversations and a desire for actions among students. Highly recommended.” —School Library Journal (starred review) A garbage barge that can’t find a place to welcome it sparks a recycling movement in the United States in this smart and smelly picture book from the author of Earmuffs for Everyone. Lowell Harrelson wanted to turn trash into methane gas so he rented a barge called Morbo 4000. His plan was to ship the garbage from New York to North Carolina, but as the barge floated down the coast, no state would let him dock because of smelly waste on board! The barge became a mockery and the butt of many jokes in the media. What started as an attempted business venture turned into quite the predicament for Mr. Harrelson. Mobro 4000 roamed the seas for forty-five days and traveled a distance of 6,000 miles. While awaiting its fate, the trash floated in New York’s harbor, garnering much attention by onlookers. Green Peace activists put up a large banner across the barge that read, “NEXT TIME…TRY RECYCLING.” Even though the garbage barge was a farce, the unintended consequence inspired America to find a new way to deal with its trash.
| Author | : John W. Trimmer |
| Publisher | : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : |
You are the owner-captain of a luxury fifty-foot trawler motoring across the bay with your family and a few friends one balmy summer evening. Off in the distance, beyond the bridge spanning the waterway, you can make out the lights and shape of a containership moving down the channel. Have you ever wondered what action you must take to keep clear of that fast-approaching ship? This book will tell you how to do so quickly. Conscientious skippers are wise to read this book and discover if a ship's radar will pick up a small boat at night. It is fascinating to learn what is taking place on the bridge or down in the engine room of one of these leviathans as it heads your way. Can it be stopped before it hits you? Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones by reading this book written for the private boat owner/captain.
| Author | : Tom Slaughter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : JUVENILE NONFICTION |
| ISBN | : 9781609052157 |
The question "What am I?" and a linked written clue invite kids to lift the first portion of the folded page to reveal another clue and more of the featured boat, and then a final fold-out shows the entire vessel. Featured boats include: sailboat, tugboat, ocean liner, rowboat, ferry, houseboat, and barge. Full color.
| Author | : Sarah Thebarge |
| Publisher | : Jericho Books |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2013-04-16 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1455523909 |
Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah The barge had it all - a loving boyfriend, an Ivy League degree, and a successful career - when her life was derailed by an unthinkable diagnosis: aggressive breast cancer. After surviving the grueling treatments - though just barely - Sarah moved to Portland, Oregon to start over. There, a chance encounter with an exhausted African mother and her daughters transformed her life again. A Somali refugee whose husband had left her, Hadhi was struggling to raise five young daughters, half a world a way from her war-torn homeland. Alone in a strange country, Hadhi and the girls were on the brink of starvation in their own home, "invisible" to their neighbors and to the world. As Sarah helped Hadhi and the girls navigate American life, her outreach to the family became a source of courage and a lifeline for herself. Poignant, at times shattering, Sarah The barge's riveting memoir invites readers to engage in her story of finding connection, love, and redemption in the most unexpected places.
| Author | : Harvey Schwartz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2016-01-19 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9780692624746 |
Buy a 90-year-old Dutch canal barge and cruise the canals and rivers of France. Eat snails. Drink Burgundy. Sounds like a retirement dream. Sometimes. In On a Barge in France Harvey Schwartz tells of the four years he and his wife, Sandra Hamilton, spent on Hoop Doet Leven on the French waterways. Each chapter presents a vignette of French country life and life in the unique linear village of international bargees traveling extremely slowly through the most beautiful, historic and mind boggling areas of France.
| Author | : Cris Hammond |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2013-12 |
| Genre | : Barges |
| ISBN | : 9780615918587 |
This is a story of shucking the briefcase, losing the tie, and floating 26 tons of riveted iron through France to Paris. The perky young Vice President of Human Resources touched me on the shoulder and said, "Have a nice life." That moment, standing in the parking lot with my personal possessions in a cardboard box and my severance papers stuffed in my pocket, I thought, "Why the hell not?" The anarchist inside me was urging me back into the building to play carelessly with matches, but instead I went to Starbuck's. Sitting in the sun, sipping a cappuccino, it occurred to me that sometimes your life falls apart just enough to allow you to put it back together in an entirely different way. So I did the most logical thing. I bought a barge in France. Then my wife and I set out to fulfill a lifetime dream of living in the shadow of Notre Dame on the Seine in Paris. From Here to Paris is the story of how we climbed out of our well-worn corporate trench and, together, set to work creating our dream life, alternating between our cozy Victorian art studio in Sausalito California and our 56 foot, 1925 Dutch barge, Phaedra, cruising the canals and rivers of France, inching toward our ultimate goal, the Seine and Paris. This is a story of facing up to the emotional and ego hooks so deeply embedded in the trappings and symbols that define "success." Of selling the over sized house, shredding the credit cards and abandoning the mind-numbing commute in favor of a joyful struggle toward a fresh life. One lived in jeans and filled with long, leisurely afternoons floating along glass-still canals through medieval villages and rolling vineyards in the heart of Burgundy. It's also the story of realtors, moose horns, a mysterious black boat, catastrophic engine failures and how your life can pass before your eyes when you put those tons of iron into reverse and it keeps going forward. It's about learning the proper gender of things in French, cheating at Trivial Pursuit, cajoling France's sexiest boat mechanic and why real men don't do yoga. It's about realizing that getting to Paris can take years, so you better enjoy the journey.
| Author | : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 1947 |
| Genre | : Explosives |
| ISBN | : |
Investigates advantages and disadvantages of continuing Federal Barge Lines vis a vis selling them to private industry. Apr. 22 hearing was held in Chicago, Ill.; Apr. 25, 26 hearings were held in Omaha, Nebr.; Apr. 28 hearing was held in New Orleans, La.; Apr. 30 hearing was held in Memphis, Tenn.; May 1, 2 hearings were held in St. Louis, Mo.
| Author | : Dominick Jones |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2013-09-10 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 0786475803 |
The true story of how a family brought a wooden cargo ship back into the age of sail. Cecilia bought the first ship, a Thames barge, for family vacations--there were six children. Dominick bought the successor, a Baltic Trader, and then found this would be his career. Twenty years elapsed between the first days of the barge and the last day of the Baltic. From knowing virtually nothing about sailing ships, the author traces getting to grips with the problems of making sails on board, skipping between sandbanks, dragging anchor, losing a mast, crossing the Atlantic, fixing self-steering, avoiding hurricanes, hauling out for repairs, and his major preoccupation: failing to sink. For 13 years, the author had no other home, and for half that period never spent a night ashore.
