Author: Johan Luide
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Keywords: logbook
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2009-10-20
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1607994763
ISBN-13: 9781607994763

The Barton siblings are faced with a decision: care of their ailing mother at home or put her in a nursing home. But even if she thrives under their personal care, can they survive each other? Logbook chronicles the domestic struggle of three siblings attempting to juggle caring for an elderly parent through the eyes of the fourth sibling, Mark ’Sparks’ Barton. Mark, a radio officer with the merchant navy, was at sea during the last months of his mother’s life. To cope with her sudden loss and the need for closure, he reads the logbook the family and professionals kept during

Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Keywords: logbook, thunder, rolling
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-12-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0306813718
ISBN-13: 9780306813719

In the autumn of 1975, ew England is festering with Bicentennial madness," Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling gypsy circus-toured twenty-two cities across the Northeast. Swept up in the motley crew, which included Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, was playwright Sam Shepard, ostensibly hired to write, on the spot, the script for a Fellini-esque, surreal movie that would come out of the tour. The script never materialized, but throughout the many moods and moments

Author: Matt Hammill
Publisher: Kids Can Press, Ltd.
Keywords: logbook, reginalds, sir
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1554532027
ISBN-13: 9781554532025

Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Keywords: lakes, freighters, books, aboard, logbook, season, sailor
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1999-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 081432844X
ISBN-13: 9780814328446

A firsthand account of life aboard the ships of the Great Lakes. Thompson began his logbook after reporting for duty aboard the "Calcite II" at Fraser Shipyard, in Superior, Wisconsin for the 1996 shipping season. His log provides a chronicle of a sailor’s life at the end of the 20th century.