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Fiction Historical

Far Gold

by (author) Arthur Hunt Chute

introduction by Don Macgillivary

Publisher
Formac Publishing Company Limited
Initial publish date
Oct 2008
Category
Historical, Action & Adventure, General, Classics
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887807787
    Publish Date
    Oct 2008
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Sprott Gabereau is shaken out of his retirement in his home village of Arichat, Cape Breton, by an old "nemesis" for one last sealing expedition. Gabereau makes his last excursion to the Southern Ocean as a sealer but his real motive is to find the treasure of the pirate Andrea Ferrara. Battling the elements, other treasure seekers and matters of the heart, Far Gold is set in the decline of the days of sail in Atlantic Canada and a time of rapid changes to the fisheries.

About the authors

ARTHUR HUNT CHUTE (1888-1929) was born in Illinois and grew up in Halifax and Wolfville, Nova Scotia, later attending Acadia University. His respect for the sea and the people who worked on it and his taste for travel and adventure were reflected in both his fiction and his journalism.

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DON MACGILLIVRAY is a professor of history at Cape Breton University and author of Captain Alex MacLean: Jack London's Sea Wolf. He teaches an undergraduate course on the Days of Sail in Atlantic Canada, 1800-1930.

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