topic:"sailing" found 2 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world. A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others. In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)

Contents: Foreward; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall; Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost; Chapter III - Nine to Five; Chapter IV - Green Antarctic; Chapter V - Kindred Souls; Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow; Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth; Chapter VIII - Albatross; Chapter IX - Elephantastic; Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension; Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds; Chapter XII - The Wild Side; Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice; Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels; Index

Notes: Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials; Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip; Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser

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Scope & Content: File consists of 62 photograph prints sent to Norman Luxton from the LaPorte family. Content pertains to fishing trips, boating, and travels in various locations including: Ontario [The Barracks Club near Lake Ontario], the British West Indies, Barbados, Colorado, the Grand Canyon, Pirates Cove [Fl…

Scope & Content: File consists of 62 photograph prints sent to Norman Luxton from the LaPorte family. Content pertains to fishing trips, boating, and travels in various locations including: Ontario [The Barracks Club near Lake Ontario], the British West Indies, Barbados, Colorado, the Grand Canyon, Pirates Cove [Florida], Palm Beach, Useppa Island [Florida], and Paris. Includes a picture of a public speaking event with United States President Herbert Hoover [1929].

Name Access: LaPorte, Eugene; LaPorte, Bill; LaPorte, Morgan; LaPorte, Constance; Radford, Francis; Luxton, Norman; Rogers, Jack; Hoover, Herbert

Subject Access: Boats; Club; Community life; Fish; Fishing; Public events; Politics; Sailing; Sailboats; Shorelines; Sports; Tourism; Travel; War Memorial; World War I

Geographic Access: Canada; Ontario; Lake Ontario; West Indies; Barbados; United States of America; Colorado; Arizona; Grand Canyon; Florida; New Jersey; France; Paris

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Natural resources; Sports, recreation and leisure; Politics

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