A reprint of the 1956 original, consisting of eighteen stories previously published in the "Atlantic Guardian" magazine. Memories of outport life from the author's growing up years in New Harbour, TB (he was born in 1900).

[9x11-3/8 format] A very slim (32 pages) version of Sir Cavendish Boyle's poem, illustrated with color drawings by the author. Includes a glossary explaining each illustration. Something to read with a young child. Pricey for the content.

Subtitled "A History Of The Newfoundland Seal Hunt". From the beginnings right up through the protests of the 70s and into the 1980s. Many nice photos. Detailed but readable.

Subtitled "Stories Of The Deep-Sea Fisherfolk Of Labrador". A baker's dozen of tales, most about specific persons and supposedly based on fact. All read to some degree like soap operas, and all appear to be primarily designed to provide inspirational messages.

A slim volume of essays on various aspects of Newfoundland life, with chapter titles such as "What We Talk", "How We Say It", "Nicknames", "Celebration", "Relations", and "Friends", and most chapters ending with a poem or a song. An entertaining read!

A fairly detailed examination of Newfoundland history, with extensive footnotes and bibliography. Not a light read, but well written and absorbing.

Subtitled "Tilting Harbour et al. Essays & Short Stories" Essentially an ode to the community of Tilting, told as eighteen brief, often humorous, stories, including "A Partridge Hunt", "The Cardigan" and "Seasons".

A self-indulgent, self-published, slim book of a few poems, illustrated with drawings and photos.

Subtitled "Stories From A Seaport City". Not much to it. Bits of trivia, some sketches of crimes, fires, shipwrecks, etc., and flattering political bios of all of the mayors. Not good even as a souvenir for a tourist!

Subtitled "The story of St. John's, Newfoundland". A melding of two books about St. John’s, originally written in 1975-1976. Sort of a one-volume history, written as a mixture of an encyclopedia and a book-of-knowledge. Broken out by chapter covering general topic areas, with table of contents including a detailed list of (unmarked) sub topics within the chapters and an extensive index. Some topics better covered than others. Probably a handy companion for a game of St. John’s trivia. A survey, with lots of breadth, but little depth.

A loose memoir consisting of a series of chapters each containing one or more stories about someplace or someone in his life, with emphasis on his teaching career and his family. Generally entertaining, but much likely to be of little interest outside of his friends and family.

Subtitled “Reminiscences of Outport Life in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland”. The subtitle says it all! A growing-up memoir. Divided into topics by chapter. Well written, with at times excruciating detail.

Subtitled "A Pictorial And Oral History of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary". Aspects and events related through numerous brief anonymous remembrances. Many photos.

Subtitled "the Micmac of Newfoundland". An uneven and at times sketchy history, seemingly based as much on assumptions as on evidence.

[8-1/2x11-1/4 format] A slim but highly detailed history of both the various minerals mined in Newfoundland and the mines themselves. Many useful photos. This is not the story of the miners, but is instead the story of the mines - their exploration, politics, finances, and operation, - from startup to abandonment.

A slim adventure novel for children, starring a 12 year old boy. From the back cover "Toronto-raised Andy Walker must spend the summer with Newfoundland grandparents ... He learns to love them and appreciate his Newfoundland heritage while he and his new friends find adventure and expose a mystery.

[12x9-1/2 format] A sort of sequel to his book "Newfoundland". Lush color photos from an expert photographer, minimal captioning, oft times more emphasis on the technical and artistic aspects than on the subjects, but again a lovely "coffee table" book.

Struggled through about 75% of this and dumped it. A novel in the form of a biography made up of numerous loosely related short stories. The chapters ranged from decent to poor, with many just making me want them to end quickly.

[8x11 format] A very slim story for young children, with nice color illustrations by Steffler. Sam is a lonely boy sculpin who lives under a wharf in a harbour. He believes he is ugly because all the other local sea creatures say so, but one day he meets Sara, a girl sculpin, who he thinks is beautiful - and she thinks that he's handsome.

[8-3/8x10 format] A slim volume (37 pages) of Newfoundland poems for children, each poem accompanied by a black&white drawing.

A romance novel, set mostly in a small outport, but also in St. John's and other locales. The central character is Norrie, an orphan being brought up by her aunt and uncle, who, when she is a teen, are convinced to allow here to further her education in St. John's. Norrie is bright and pretty, but also willful and stubborn, and in her self-centered view of events, which usually involve a blend of being noble and being a drama queen, manages to bring anguish to pretty much everyone around her, while always seeing herself as a martyr. An interesting read with lots of Newfoundland color.

A novel consisting of a collection of seventeen short stories, but only three of them involve Newfoundland - two set in Labrador and one on the island. The three Newfoundland stories are actually quite good.

Subtitled "The New Girl and other stories". Eighteen fictional short stories on a variety of subjects, including titles such as "Grey Day Fishing", "The New Girl", "A Bird in the Tickle", "The Sawmill" and "Gravy" (about hunting a moose). Quite readable and entertaining.

Subtitled "Literature of Nerwfoundland and Labrador, Book 1". An anthology of poems and short stories for junior high school students. Organized into several broad themes, with each story preceeded by an introduction and followed by questions or suggestions for further reading. All stories are about Newfoundland. ["Passages" and "Stages" are the companion volumes]

A novel consisting of thirty-one mostly unrelated short stories, loosely tied together by making believe that each tale is based on the people in an accompanying old photo. About half take place in Newfoundland. A mixed bag of generally dreary stories.

[5-1/8x6-1/2 format] Filled with well described lush color photographs of the flowers and their habitats.

Subtitled "A History of the Waterford Hospital", which was earlier named "The Hospital for Mental and Nervous Disorders" or simply called "the Mental". Essentially a history of psychiatric care in Newfoundland. Very detailed and not a light read, but worthwhile.

A novel. After his wife is killed, a father moves with his two young sons back to a remote outport in Newfoundland. Told from the view of Ben, the older boy at 13, who misses his old life and is determined not to like anything - or anyone - in this new place. For the pre-teen to young teen reader.

A tale for the younger teen reader, set in an outport and starring a 14 year old boy. Does contain some adventure and danger, including the mysterious disappearance of fish from his family's nets, but is heavy on filler and often reads more like a soap opera than an adventure tale.

[8-1/4x10-1/4 format] A slim color photo book of outhouses in Canada's eastern maritime area, at least some of them probably from Newfoundland (no locales are indentified), and each accompanied by entertaining and often humorous commentary.

A slim volume consisting of a survey of Newfoundland history through around 1927. Dedicated to Newfoundland children, but readable by anyone not requiring much depth or detail.

Subtitled "A Newfoundland Journal". Memoir of a mainland woman living and working in an outport (Springdale) from 1962-1969. Well written, with an "outsider looking in" angle on events.

[11x10 format] A black-and-white photo book about the Northern Peninsula, with scattered musings by numerous contributors. Includes a list of photo captions at the back. Better than the average photo book!

Subtitled "Growing Up In A Newfoundland Outport Circa 1920-1935". A very readable memoir of growing up in the small outport community of Robert's Arm in Notre Dame Bay. The author does an entertaining job covering myriad details of her young life, and even manages to include a lot of family information without becoming tedious. A selection of the author's poetry is included.

A delightful reprint of sixteen short and one mid-length story, all previously published in both the Atlantic Guardian and as part of the book "Ocean At My Door" in 1956. Vivid reminiscences of people and places while growing up in a small settlement in Trinity Bay, and of life in New York City, where the author spent his adult life while managing to visit home numerous times, all as seen through a Newfoundlander's eyes.

A memoir framed as a novel, set in a fictional south coast Newfoundland settlement named Baleena (think Burgeo, where the author and her husband lived for the years covered in the book). A vivid portrait of outport life as seen through the eyes of a mainlander. Condescending at times, but generally affectionate. Very different in tone from her husband Farley's book "A Whale for the Killing", a memoir also set in Burgeo.

Subtitled "Stories from a rum runner's files from Prohibition days in Atlantic Canada and Newfoundland". Stories of various individuals and companies in the trade, plus many photos of the boats that carried the liquor and the boats that tried to stop them.

Subtitled "A sealer's first hand account of the Newfoundland seal hunt". Sixteen days aboard a 60-foot longliner on a sealing trip near the Funks in 1997. The daily grind of the ice and cold, and the aches and pains and cuts and bruises and blood and gore. Gritty, depressing, and often repetitious; the writer and sometime sealer has been away from the hunt for many years, is out shape, and complains incessantly.