Jarratt: 12 books
Life of Brine
A Surfer's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Life of Brine is the memoir of Phil Jarratt, one of the world’s best-known chroniclers of surfing culture, whose lifelong pursuit of the perfect wave has placed him in the midst of some of the most exciting moments in surfing’s modern history. Jarratt, who has often courted controversy...
Bali: Heaven and Hell
Chaos and corruption, free love, great surf and high times from the Rajas to Jokowi
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For a century now, Bali has been the subject of a beautiful mythology created by movies and music, but there are few factual accounts of its transformation from besieged peasant colony to booming tourist mecca.It’s a tale begging to be told: a story of survival in the face of genocide, natural...
by Jarratt, Phil
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
For a century now, Bali has been the subject of a beautiful mythology created by movies and music, but there are few factual accounts of its transformation from besieged peasant colony to booming tourist mecca. Bali: Heaven and Hellis a tale begging to be told - a story of survival in the face of...
That Summer at Boomerang
From the waves of Waikiki to the sand dunes of Freshwater, the true story of Duke Kahanamoku in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
That Summer at Boomerang, by leading surf writer Phil Jarrat, is an evocative retelling of the little known story about the birth of surfing in Australia and the early beginnings of our beach culture and sporting heritage. In the first summer of World War One, while Australian soldiers made their way...
Letters from Beauly
Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction
During the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst was one of them. For five years,...
by Phil Jarratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The history of Australian surfing has been full of pioneers, outlaws, hooligans and mavericks. This lavishly illustrated book, with profiles of 100 legends of Australian surfing from ancient history (pre-1950s) to the current day, is the perfect gift for any surfer or surf aficionado. Featuring many...
by Laura Jarratt
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
"I wanted to say this morning, only you ran off ... sorry if I was rude.' The boy from the boat grineed, looking straight at me. 'You surprised me, that's all. The scar' - he touched his face - 'took me by surprise. I didn't mean to be rude.' I gaped at him. Nobody ever, ever mentioned the scars."
An...
by Laura Jarratt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
'I picked up the book and thumbed through the pages. Names in alphabetical order, names with meanings, names I knew, names I'd never heard of. How to pick? Nothing that would stand out, nothing that would link me to the past - those were the instructions. The past. As if everything that had gone before...
Captured Hearts
New Brunswick's War Brides
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you leave all you’ve ever known behind — your family, friends, and way of life — to begin a new...
War Brides
The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2009
For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men. The result was over 48,000 marriages to Canadian soldiers alone, and a mass emigration of British women to North America and around the world...
Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century
Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
This collection of essays investigates the historiography of rhetoric, global perspectives on rhetoric, and the teaching of writing and rhetoric, offering diverse viewpoints. Addressing four major areas of research in rhetoric and writing studies, contributors consider authorship and audience, discuss...
Voices of the Left Behind
Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2006
Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots. It is filled with fascinating archival images and documents as well as original wartime correspondence between the mothers, the Canadian fathers, and the Department of...