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Small Craft Advisory

A Book about the Building of a Boat

Small Craft Advisory( )
Author: Rubin, Louis D.
ISBN:978-0-8021-9671-2
Publication Date:Dec 2007
Publisher:Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Imprint:Atlantic Monthly Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $2.99
Book Description:

Anyone who has ever bought and owned a boat -- or wondered why people are obsessed by them -- will love this amusing, evocative, beautifully crafted memoir by an inveterate boat-owner.

Book Details
Pages:394
Author Biography
Rubin, Louis D. (Author)
Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr. was born in Charleston, South Carolina on November 19, 1923. After serving in the Army during World War II, he received a history degree the University of Richmond. He worked for The Associated Press and several newspapers including the Richmond News-Leader before receiving master's and doctoral degrees from Johns Hopkins University. In 1953, while still at Johns Hopkins University, he co-edited his first book, Southern Renascence: The Literature of the Modern South.

He taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Hollins College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a co-founder of Algonquin Books and founder of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 1989, he retired from the UNC faculty after 22 years to focus on Algonquin Books.

He was a prolific author who wrote novels, critical studies, histories, memoirs and a guide for predicting the weather. His books include Small Craft Advisory, Babe Ruth's Ghost, A Memory of Trains, An Honorable Estate, and My Father's People. He died from kidney disease on November 16, 2013 at the age of 89.

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