How to Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1401300278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jeff Potter said Quality, rightness and virtue: the wildman's revenge!. Robb White writes of his wild childhood and wild boating life. And he gets away with it because he's so good! This is candid, uproarious writing of the best sort. It's specific. And you know he knows what he's talking about because he's been there. What a tonic! His work reminds me of Jack Saunders. : ) --A fellow folk writer who hasn't gotten his break yet. Robb's is rough'n'tumble family storytelling, yet it's gentle. It's personaland it's general. A Unique Voice elhigh Robb White, bless him, is dead now. And that's a shame, because he writes about things that most of us would barely imagine. Growing up as a wandering kid in the marshes, he certainly picked up some tales. And growing up around boats, he grew up to stay around boats.Frankly, to read about what he and his friends were like as children, you could almost imagine some stories would be little changed if they had all been born raccoons.It's all arranged e. While reading his yarns are wonderful, the audiobook of this same title is even While reading his yarns are wonderful, the audiobook of this same title is even better. Fantastic, wry humor with life lessons intertwined. The Sea Turtle story always makes me laugh.
This colorful portrait of the author's life invites readers into his special world-a world uncluttered by computers, telephones, and rush orders. While still a young boy, Robb White built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an abandoned chicken coop in the backyard-stamping and primping it into shape, then testing it out in the back creek. Today, without any formal training, White constructs some of the most sought after small wooden boats around. With chapters such as 'Seagull: In which I learn not to be so gullible' and 'The canned ham incident: In which I did not participate, so hurrah for the other side,' White shares some of his wisdom gained from boat-bui
White passes his days building boats and his nights writing for publications like Wooden Boat and Messing About in Boats-not surprisingly, there's plenty of talk of keels, sterns, tumblehomes and beam ratios here. Mixed in are his observations on how television rots children's minds, and the ways in which the Enron scandal resembles cannibalism in the Pre-Columbian Antilles. There's no telling, of course, how much fact there is to these tales. According to the book's disclaimer, "none of these stories