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Gary Collins was born in a small, two-storey house by the sea in the town of Hare Bay, Bonavista North. He finished school at Brown Memorial High in the same town. He spent forty years in the logging and sawmilling business with his father, Theophilus, and son Clint. Gary was once Newfoundland’s youngest fisheries guardian. He managed log drives down spring rivers for years, spent seven seasons driving tractor-trailers over ice roads and the Beaufort Sea of Canada’s Western Arctic, and has been
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Téléchargez le livre :  Away from My Island
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Away from My Island

Gary Collins


Flanker Press

2023-10-20

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A true story of family, heroism, and ultimate sacrifice. Born on Silver Fox Island in 1914, Eliza Gill was working “in service” before she was eight years old. By the age of eleven, she was informed by her father she would be sailing on a fishing...

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Télécharger le livre :  Redjack
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“. . . one of Canada’s master storytellers.” — The Miramichi Reader Redjack, the hated fish culler, awakens in the bottom of a heaving punt adrift on the Atlantic Ocean. Following the beating he took from his only son, he slinks into the inner bays. Jake, son of...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2022-02-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Place
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In a small, isolated outport on the northeast coast of Newfoundland toward the end of the nineteenth century—where nothing of note ever seems to happen—a woman is brutally attacked, and a murder-suicide is committed. The age-old rift between young lovers of different...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2019-09-18

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crackie
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An epic tale of war and triumph by award-winning author Gary Collins “One of Canada’s master storytellers.” Miramichi Reader Jake is born at the turn of the twentieth century on a small outport island on the northeast coast of Newfoundland. He is distinguished from...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2018-10-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crackie
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An epic tale of war and triumph by award-winning author Gary Collins “One of Canada’s master storytellers.” Miramichi Reader Jake is born at the turn of the twentieth century on a small outport island on the northeast coast of Newfoundland. He is distinguished from...

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Parution : 2018-10-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Beothuk
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Inspired by True Events Long after Demasduit’s skull has been stolen from her grave, and years after Shanawdithit has died, one Beothuk and his family survive. Bursting out of the pages of Newfoundland history appears Kop, the last true Beothuk. When all the other...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2017-10-13

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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Beothuk
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Inspired by True Events Long after Demasduit’s skull has been stolen from her grave, and years after Shanawdithit has died, one Beothuk and his family survive. Bursting out of the pages of Newfoundland history appears Kop, the last true Beothuk. When all the other...

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Parution : 2017-10-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Desperation
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Shipwreck. Starvation. Cannibalism. For the first time, celebrated author Gary Collins brings to life the tale of the brigantine Queen of Swansea. Bound for Newfoundland in December 1867, the vessel made her first port of call in St. John’s, only to meet her doom on...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2016-09-16

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Télécharger le livre :  A Time That Was
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A collection of true Christmas stories by Gary Collins, Newfoundland and Labrador’s favourite storyteller! Gary Collins invites us to live again the gone forever. These stories embody the soul of Christmas in outport Newfoundland, and each one carries a message that...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2015-09-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Left to Die
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“They didn’t die like flies, you know, like I’ve heard some reporters say over the years. Oh no, it wasn’t like that a’tall. The men who died didn’t just drop like flies. There was nothing quick or easy about it. They had frozen feet, and fingers too numb and cramped...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2014-03-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Gale of 1929
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On the night of November 29, 1929, eleven schooners set sail for home from the comfort and safety of St. John’s harbour. They all headed north: directly into the teeth of a deadly hurricane. Here for the first time are the stories of the eleven schooners that were...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2013-06-27

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Télécharger le livre :  A Day on the Ridge
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Among the bays, inlets, and communities of the province, author Gary Collins has earned a seat at the head of the table as Newfoundland and Labrador's favourite storyteller. Now, with six books under his belt, the “Story Man” from Hare Bay is ready to tell you a little...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2012-10-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Mattie Mitchell
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An adventure story from award-winning author Gary Collins: Newfoundland’s Favourite Storyteller! “There is a feeling that comes to one who goes unafraid into the wilderness. For the very few who experience it comes a sense of belonging; of being a fragile part of the...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2011-11-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Where Eagles Lie Fallen
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Where Eagles Lie Fallen is celebrated master storyteller Gary Collinss solemn tribute to the American servicemen and servicewomen who lost their lives aboard Arrow Air Flight 1285 when it crashed in Gander Newfoundland on December 12 1985.

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2010-11-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Soulis Joe's Lost Mine
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Embedded in a rock in an obscure, pristine brook in the wilds of Newfoundland is a legendary quartz vein. The story of the vein and the wealth trapped in it is well-known, but its location has eluded six generations of Newfoundlanders. The source of the legend is Soulis...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2009-09-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Farewell
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Inspired by True Events In 1934, North America lay stripped of its riches by a great depression. When the land refused to yield its bounty and the sea grew stingy, everyone in the Western World found it harder to survive, especially those in the isolated outports of...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2008-02-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Cabot Island
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In the nineteenth century, the Newfoundland government, under constant pressure from fish merchants, began installing lighthouses in some of the more treacherous places around the island. In the 1950s, Cabot Island boasted a large lighthouse, with a steady, brilliant...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2007-02-14

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