Random PassageBreakwater, 1992 - 269 من الصفحات Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven by loneliness she begins a journal. Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give: the real story of our Newfoundland ancestors, of how time and chance brought them to the forbidding shores of a new found land. It is a saga of families and of individuals; of acquisitive Mary Bundle; of charming Ned Andrews, whose thievery has turned his family into exiles; of mad Ida; of Thomas Hutchings, who might be an aristocrat, a holy man, or a murderer; and of Lavinia - who wrote down the truth and lies about them all. Random Passage has been adapted into a CBC miniseries and is now a national bestseller. |
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... winter's supplies . " We hardly knew what to do . Ted didn't trust the trappers , but they got along all right with the Eskimos - that was good enough for me so we travelled back down to Fox Harbour with them , and we were only waitin ...
... winter's supplies . " We hardly knew what to do . Ted didn't trust the trappers , but they got along all right with the Eskimos - that was good enough for me so we travelled back down to Fox Harbour with them , and we were only waitin ...
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... winter , only jobs the women and boys cannot do— mending nets or hunting seabirds and geese - distract the men from boatbuilding . Everything seems to take priority over constructing inside walls or building beds and shelves - frivolous ...
... winter , only jobs the women and boys cannot do— mending nets or hunting seabirds and geese - distract the men from boatbuilding . Everything seems to take priority over constructing inside walls or building beds and shelves - frivolous ...
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... winter as it did last year when the Bishop was away . Under his direction part of the east transept has been enclosed with rough lumber and canvas to make a large workshop with a pit in the centre where we can keep a fire going all winter ...
... winter as it did last year when the Bishop was away . Under his direction part of the east transept has been enclosed with rough lumber and canvas to make a large workshop with a pit in the centre where we can keep a fire going all winter ...
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Alex Brennan Annie ashore asked baby barrels beach Ben Andrews Ben's boat brother Caleb Gosse Cape Captain Charlie child church cloth comes dark door Ellsworth Emma eyes face Fanny Father Fitzgerald feeling fire fish store Frank Norris girl grey hair hand Hazel head hear holding Isaac Jane Jennie Jim Rice John's Josh Vincent kitchen La Truite Lavinia thinks Lizzie look Mary Bundle Mary's Matt Carroll Meg's Monk Street morning mother Ned Andrews Ned's never night nods Norris house partridgeberries Patience Peter Vincent Pond Island pulled remember rocks Rose s'pose Sarah Vincent says seal seems seen ship silence sitting sleep smell smile standing stop summer talk tell Tern things Thomas Hutchings thought told turns Vincent house Vinnie voice walk watching Weymouth wharf Willie winter woman women wonders wood words Young Joe youngsters