Resultados para "Families" en Viajes y turismo

"Afskeden med hjemmet, skolen, familien og vennerne er lige så svær som frygtet, og efter farvellet til farmor og farfar betror Anne Grethe mig grædende, at nu er det altså sidste gang, hun forlader alt det, som for hende og os andre er så kært. Jeg modsiger hende ikke, men jeg ved, at hun ligesom på vor forrige tur vil begejstres over nye mennesker, andre skikke og anderledes landskaber, alt imens hendes hengivenhed for det derhjemme forstærkes.

"Godt. Anne Grethe havde bestemt, vi skulle til Australien, mens tid var. Men ville hun kunne forliges med sin svigermor under ekstreme forhold, og ville hendes voksne sønner kunne affinde sig med indimellem at lade sig lede af en far, der knap er begyndte at tænke, før de har handlet. Tre generationer og seks individualister på farten sammen med en satellittelefon.

In 1913, before there is a rumor of war in Europe, Matthias Wrenn and Con Hatchel, lifelong friends from Ballyrannel in the Irish midlands, decide to see the world at the expense of the king of England and join the British army. A year later, while en route to India, their troop ship is recalled and they soon find themselves in the European slaughterhouse that was World War I.

Highliners are the elite of the fishing world, the skippers and crews who make the biggest catches—salmon, king crab, halibut, shrimp—and deliver them first to the bustling canneries of Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. For these men—and for their women—the safe eight-hour day does not exist. It never will. Some fishermen get rich, many die broke. But they find a special joy in their work that can never be matched by the easier world of the landsman.

Long before Hank Crawford arrived in the waters of Ketchikan, his partners and compatriots were already in love with its shores. Following the final, crushing moments of World War II, Japanese officer Kiyoshi Tsurifune, Sergeant Jones Henry, and Resistance fighter Swede Scorden struggle to regain normalcy and any contact with the shimmering, fish-filled sea. Lost honor, fallen friends, their cultural identities gone in the wake of a nuclear blast - these fishermen-turned-soldiers have a long way to go till they regain the waters in which they feel most at home.

William McCloskey’s best-selling novel Highliners established him as an authority on the dangers and hardships of the Alaskan fishing industry. Now in an epic sequel, Breakers returns to Kodiak to chart the fortunes of McCloskey’s beloved characters as they make their living from the sea.