1 item - $9.95
Betty White Betty White: The First 90 Years × 1 $9.95
Sub-Total: $9.95
Total: $9.95
View Cart   Checkout
MENU MENU
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Book Distribution Services
    • CPG History
    • Our Clients for National Book Distribution
  • Store
  • Booksellers
    • Author Appearance Request
    • Order Information
    • Return Policy
    • Sales Contacts
  • Prospective Clients
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Why Work With CPG?
  • Clients
    • Catalog Production Details
    • Client Login
    • Prices and ISBNs
    • Reports
    • Shipping and Carton Standards
    • Trade Shows
  • FAQ
  • Media
    • CPG News & Information Services
    • Blog
  • Contact Us
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Book Distribution Services
    • CPG History
    • Our Clients for National Book Distribution
  • Store
      Accessory
      Fencing
      Gardening
      Parenting
      Swimming
      Training
      Triathlon
      Acrobatics
      Architecture
      Art
      Beverages
      Biography
      Body, Mind & Spirit
      Bodybuilding
      Business
      Careers
      Childrens
      Clothing
      Coaching
      Cooking
      Crafts & Hobbies
      • Crosswords (8)
      Documentary
      Drama
      Economics
      Education
      • Study Aids (1)
      • Test Prep (1)
      Essays
      Family
      Fiction
      Games
      Government
      Health & Fitness
      • Fitness (49)
      • Yoga (11)
      History
      Hockey
      House & Home
      Humor
      Juvenile Fiction
      Juvenile Nonfiction
      Language Arts
      Law
      Literary Collections
      Literary Criticism
      Medical
      Military
      Miscellaneous
      Music
      Narratives
      Nature
      Nautical
      Performing Arts
      Pets
      Philosophy
      Political Science
      Psychology
      Reference
      Religion
      Reviews
      Science
      Select
      Self-Help
      Social Science
      Sociology of Sports
      Sports & Recreation
      • Baseball (14)
      • Basketball (16)
      • Fencing (4)
      • Fishing (46)
      • Football (15)
      • Golf (10)
      • Hunting (0)
      • Martial Arts (11)
      • Racing (2)
      • Raquet Sports (0)
      • Running (44)
      • Sailing (22)
      • Soccer (96)
      • Softball (1)
      • Triathlon (10)
      • volleyball (1)
      • Women's Sports (2)
      • Wrestling (0)
      Sports Business
      Sports Medicine
      Study Aids
      Technology & Engineering
      Transportation
      Travel
      Trivia & Puzzles
      True Crime
      Wine & Spirits
      Young Adult
  • Booksellers
    • Author Appearance Request
    • Order Information
    • Return Policy
    • Sales Contacts
  • Prospective Clients
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Why Work With CPG?
  • Clients
    • Catalog Production Details
    • Client Login
    • Prices and ISBNs
    • Reports
    • Shipping and Carton Standards
    • Trade Shows
  • FAQ
  • Media
    • CPG News & Information Services
    • Blog
  • Contact Us
Home / Sports & Recreation / Sailing / Bull Canyon
« Previous
Storm Tactics Handbook, 3rd Edition
Next »
Cruising Has No Limits
View Cart “Betty White: The First 90 Years” has been added to your cart.
BullCoverShadow_(1)
Zoom
BullCoverShadow_(1)

Bull Canyon

$16.95

0 review Write a review

In 1980 Lin Pardey and her husband Larry came to California looking for a good spot to build a boat, test Lin’s skills as a writer and taste the apparent security life ashore could offer. Nestled in a rocky outcropping of winding, sparsely populated dirt roads, 60 miles from the sea and 50 miles from Los Angeles, Bull Canyon would seem an unlikely place for boat-building. But when Lin and Larry set eyes on the abandoned stone cottage at the top of a rutted, dusty lane, it was love at first sight. The house was certainly a fixer-upper, but there was plenty of room to build a boat, not to mention peace, quiet, and an abundance of natural beauty. They knew they’d come home.

Order eBook
SKU: PL14679. Categories: Biography, Nautical, Sports & Recreation, Sailing. Tags: ashore, boat building, boats, Bull Canyon, journey, sailing, Taleisin.

  • Description
  • Additional Information
  • Reviews (0)

Product Description

A finalist, 2012 WILLA Literary Awards, Creative non-fiction Finalist 2012 IPBA Next Generation Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Finalist 2012 IPBA Next Generation Literary Award – Memoir.

Lin Pardey and her husband Larry are internationally famous for their sailing adventures. But in 1980 — fresh from an eleven years-long sailing journey, where they forged the early years of their marriage on high seas and in exotic locales — they came to California looking for a good spot to build a boat, test Lin s skills as a writer and taste the apparent security life ashore could offer. Nestled in a rocky outcropping of winding, sparsely populated dirt roads, 60 miles from the sea and 50 miles from Los Angeles, Bull Canyon would seem an unlikely place for boat-building. But when Lin and Larry set eyes on the abandoned stone cottage at the top of a rutted, dusty lane, it was love at first sight. The house was certainly a fixer-upper, but there was plenty of room to build a boat, not to mention peace, quiet, and an abundance of natural beauty. They knew they’d come home.

Bull Canyon would bring them joy, victories and failures but also packrats in the pantries, flooding rains that would make Noah himself cower, the occasional cougar, and an oddball collection of neighbors as ready to assist these hapless appearing newcomers as they were to gossip or occasionally cause trouble. It would be a life lived close to the land, coaxing vegetables out of acrid soil, living side-by-side with wildlife of all types, navigating dangerous roads to simply get to the nearest grocery store, no piped in water, no electricity, no phones not even a proper address to receive mail. Their marriage would be tested, too, working side-by-side, 24/7. Life in the canyon would prove daunting, gritty, and dangerous, and a tougher bargain in the end than what they’d signed up for. But as tough as life could be there, Bull Canyon was, indeed, the place where dreams could come true. It was here that Lin and Larry tapped into the affirming core of their marriage, accomplished back-breaking physical feats (moving enormous boulders and pouring tons of hot lead, among others), and grew to love the magical yet difficult environment. In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, Pardey takes readers on a voyage landlocked, but a voyage nonetheless of the heart, sharing candidly and with great humor the four years she and her determined husband spent in Bull Canyon. From the Thanksgiving when they had to hang the turkey from a ceiling hook to keep it safe from invading animals, to their constant companion, Dog (who is actually a cat), to Lin’s run-in with a couple of drunk hunters, to Larry’s careful coaxing of rough-sawn timber into the beautiful boat, Taleisin, their story, related in the warm, personal voice of the fireside storyteller, is a funny, tender, and engrossing tale. Bull Canyon is the story of two dreamers and schemers who have taken life by the horns and bring the reader along for the wild and joyous ride.

About the Authors

Lin Pardey is internationally famous for her sailing and boatbuilding expertise. With her husband, Larry, she has sailed more than 200,000 miles and has won many awards. She is the author of eleven books and has created several instructional videos on sailing. The Pardeys make New Zealand their home base, cruising on board Taleisin part of each year.

 

Book distributed provided by Cardinal Publishers Group

Additional Information

Weight 1.40 lbs
Date-published

4/25/2011

Eanisbn

9781929214679

Format

Hardcover

Isbn

1929214677

Media

Book

Pages

320

Publisher

L&L Pardey Publications

Size

6.5 x 9.5

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Bull Canyon” Cancel reply

Related Products

A true story that captures the fear and hardships faced by African- Americans during a disturbing time in the post-Reconstruction period.

Through hard work and determination, Hansford C. Bayton would rise from humble beginnings to become the captain and owner of five excursion and mail delivery steamboats that plied the Rappahannock River during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Unusually for an African American, he would acquire wealth and the respect of both blacks and whites. Nevertheless, his boats were burned one by one. But with each malicious burning, and with lynching on the rise, he would build again.

Against the Tide
$14.95
Add to cart
mlkfinalweb

In All About Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. readers ages 9 years – 13 years old will learn about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. . He was well-known as one of the most influential leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.

All About Martin Luther King, Jr.
$5.99
Add to cart
To Chase A Dream Soccer

Author(s): Paul “Whitey” Kapsalis & Ted Gregory
ISBN-10: 1782550194
ISBN-13: 9781782550198
Format: Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 232
Price: $14.95
Illustrations: 15 b/w
Category: SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer SPO040000

To Chase a Dream
$14.95
Add to cart
web-cover-beyond

Beyond Just Win tells the inspirational story of Texas high school football Coach G.A. Moore, who won more games than anyone in the storied history of Texas high school football. During a 45-year career, he amassed 429 victories and eight state championships numbers that place him well above other coaches.

But Moore’s influence extended far beyond winning football games. He shaped the character of two generations of young men. To Moore, winning wasn’t everything. He wanted to win while maintaining good sportsmanship. He demanded that his players be exemplary people on and off the field. If they disrespected a teacher in class, they paid for it at practice.

Beyond Just Win
$22.99
Add to cart

Customer Services

  • Author Appearance Request
  • Baseball Landing Page
  • Cardinal Publishers Group Return Policy
  • Checkout
  • Contact Us
  • CPG News & Information Services
  • E-book FAQ
  • eBook Conversion
  • FAQ
  • My Account
  • Order Information
  • Prospective Clients
    • 10 Reasons Why You Should Work With CPG
  • Sales Contacts
  • Trade Shows
  • Book Distribution Services
  • Catalog Production Details
  • Prices and ISBNs
  • Shipping and Carton Standards

Cardinal Blog

  • US Sailboat Show
    October 2, 2018, No Comments
  • Plan a Getaway to Key West
    June 26, 2018, No Comments
  • Brazil: What to Watch for on TV – How Messi, Neymar, Kroos, and Others Play
    June 7, 2018, No Comments
  • Stretch Your Way to Better Health
    February 8, 2018, No Comments
  • Two Ways to Track Your Fitness and Running Progress
    January 29, 2018, No Comments
  • Your Ancestors Didn’t Have Gyms, Computers, or Machines
    January 17, 2018, No Comments
PayPal Visa Discover
© Copyright 2015. Cardinal Publishers Group
Facebook Twitter Google+ RSS Pinterest Linkedin
Cardinal Publishers Group is dedicated to achieving excellence in distribution services for our client publishers, and providing first-rate customer care to the individuals and corporations that buy our publishers’ books.