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An epic tale of war and triumph by award-winning author Gary Collins“One of Canada’s master storytellers.” *Miramichi Reader*Jake is born at the turn of the twentieth century on a small outport island on the northeast coast of Newfoundland. He is distinguished from everyone else by a full head of red hair. And to single him out further, Jake has a pronounced speech impediment. Scorned, abused physically and mentally by his father for his stuttering tongue and especially for his questionable parentage, Jake endures. Then still a boy, Jake is found alone in a punt upon an empty sea, on the fishing grounds without his father, whose fate is suspect.Jake lies about his age and secures a berth aboard the SS *Stephano*, captained by the famous Old Man of the seal hunt, where he witnesses the SS *Newfoundland* disaster of 1914. On the ice, Jake comes face to face with one of the *Newfoundland*’s sealers known as the Culler. He is a mirror image of Jake—complete with red hair. With the other sealers, the Culler is ordered to leave the *Stephano* despite the brewing storm. Jake doesn’t know if he survived the ensuing disaster or was among the many victims.Returning from the seal hunt with fe

Author

Collins, Gary

Publisher

Flanker Press Limited

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781771177009