The Grey Seas Under

Product Description
One of the great storytellers of our century writes passionately of the courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin.  The captain and the crew were mostly Newfounders; the sea was in their blood.  Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the ships she towed, blasted by gale-force winds and frozen by squalls of snow and rain, the stout ship and her brave crew saved hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives as they battled their ancient enemy, the North Atlantic.
Review
“Recognized as a first-rate saga of the sea.”–
Montreal Gazette.

“Handled with boldness and ingenuity. . .should entrance even the most confirmed landlubber.”–
Toronto Star.

“Farley Mowat writes as a good helmsman steers–with easy skill, admirable precision, and the authority of a sailor in his element.”–Nicholas Monsarrat
From the Publisher
“One of the great storytellers of our century writes passionately of the courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin. The captain and the crew were mostly Newfounders; the sea was in their blood. Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the ships she towed, blasted by gale-force winds and frozen by squalls of snow and rain, the stout ship and her brave crew saved hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives as they battled their ancient enemy, the North Atlantic.
“Recognized as a first-rate saga of the sea.”–Montreal Gazette.
“Handled with boldness and ingenuity. . .should entrance even the most confirmed landlubber.”–Toronto Star.
“Farely Mowat writes as a good helmsman steers–with easy skill, admirable precision, and the authority of a sailor in his element.”–Nicholas Monsarrat
From the Back Cover
“Recognized as a first-rate saga of the sea.”–
Montreal Gazette.
“Handled with boldness and ingenuity. . .should entrance even the most confirmed landlubber.”–Toronto Star.
“Farley Mowat writes as a good helmsman steers–with easy skill, admirable precision, and the authority of a sailor in his element.”–Nicholas Monsarrat
About the Author
Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921, and grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Richmond Hill. He served in World War II from 1940 until 1945, entering the army as a private and emerging with the rank of captain. He began writing for his living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He remains an inveterate traveller with a passion for remote places and peoples. He has twenty-five books to his name, which have been published in translations in over twenty languages in more than sixty countries. They include such internationally known works as
People of the Deer,
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be,
Never Cry Wolf,
Westviking,
The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float,
Sibir,
A Whale for the Killing,
The Snow Walker,
And No Birds Sang, and
Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey. His short stories and articles have appeared in
The Saturday Evening Post,
Maclean’s,
Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.

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One of the great storytellers of our century writes passionately of the courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin.  The captain and the crew were mostly Newfounders; the sea was in their blood.  Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the ships she towed, blasted by gale-force winds and frozen by squalls of snow and rain, the stout ship and her brave crew saved hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives as they battled their ancient enemy, the North Atlantic.