Author: Richard C. McKay
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144291
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
DIVRare and valuable study reveals accomplishments of great 19th-century shipbuilder in era of sailing packet and clipper ship. 58 superb illustrations, including plans, models, maps, etc. /div
Donald McKay and His Famous Sailing Ships
Author: Richard C. McKay
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144291
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
DIVRare and valuable study reveals accomplishments of great 19th-century shipbuilder in era of sailing packet and clipper ship. 58 superb illustrations, including plans, models, maps, etc. /div
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144291
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
DIVRare and valuable study reveals accomplishments of great 19th-century shipbuilder in era of sailing packet and clipper ship. 58 superb illustrations, including plans, models, maps, etc. /div
The Muskwa Assemblage
Author: Don McKay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
"In August 2006," writes Don McKay in his introduction, "a group of artists working in different media, and out of a variety of traditions, assembled in the Muskwa-Kechika wilderness of Northern British Columbia. This 'art-camp' was organized and managed by Donna Kane and Wayne Sawchuk as a way to direct aesthetic attention to an area-one of very few-in which a wild ecosystem remains virtually intact. This book is my response, presented in a form which, so I hope, fits both the region and the experience." Spreading a map of the Muskwa-Kechika out on the kitchen table prior to the trip, McKay studies the region framed by the Toad River in the north and the Tuchodi Lakes to the south. Written on the ground and in retrospect, the assemblage of poetry and prose describes encounters with the landscape and its inhabitants-lichen, caribou, moose, loons, and an unruly pack horse named Bucky. Taking up naming, ownership, wilderness, deep time-preoccupations that emerged previously in Vis à Vis and Deactivated West 100-McKay brings these notions to bear on a place almost entirely undisturbed by human settlement or industry. The Muskwa Assemblage is about settling into this lack of parameters, writing down and crossing out attempts to define that which goes on happily without definition. Interspersed with the prose are poems that capture what observation of animals in their habitat has over naming-of reducing to the shorthand of category-and similarly what wilderness retains when human habitation is not the object, where we are simply "beings among beings." This book is a smyth-sewn paperback. The text is typeset in Jenson and hand printed from photopolymer plates on Hahnemühle Biblio paper making 48 pages trimmed to 4.5 × 7 inches, bound into a paper cover and enfolded in a letterpress-printed jacket. The jacket paper will be handmade at Gaspereau Press.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
"In August 2006," writes Don McKay in his introduction, "a group of artists working in different media, and out of a variety of traditions, assembled in the Muskwa-Kechika wilderness of Northern British Columbia. This 'art-camp' was organized and managed by Donna Kane and Wayne Sawchuk as a way to direct aesthetic attention to an area-one of very few-in which a wild ecosystem remains virtually intact. This book is my response, presented in a form which, so I hope, fits both the region and the experience." Spreading a map of the Muskwa-Kechika out on the kitchen table prior to the trip, McKay studies the region framed by the Toad River in the north and the Tuchodi Lakes to the south. Written on the ground and in retrospect, the assemblage of poetry and prose describes encounters with the landscape and its inhabitants-lichen, caribou, moose, loons, and an unruly pack horse named Bucky. Taking up naming, ownership, wilderness, deep time-preoccupations that emerged previously in Vis à Vis and Deactivated West 100-McKay brings these notions to bear on a place almost entirely undisturbed by human settlement or industry. The Muskwa Assemblage is about settling into this lack of parameters, writing down and crossing out attempts to define that which goes on happily without definition. Interspersed with the prose are poems that capture what observation of animals in their habitat has over naming-of reducing to the shorthand of category-and similarly what wilderness retains when human habitation is not the object, where we are simply "beings among beings." This book is a smyth-sewn paperback. The text is typeset in Jenson and hand printed from photopolymer plates on Hahnemühle Biblio paper making 48 pages trimmed to 4.5 × 7 inches, bound into a paper cover and enfolded in a letterpress-printed jacket. The jacket paper will be handmade at Gaspereau Press.
Paradoxides
Author: Don McKay
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771055110
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Multi-award-winning poet Don McKay returns with a startling collection of new poems, his first since his Griffin Poetry Prize winning book, Strike/Slip Don McKay is known, among other things, as Canada's foremost poet of the natural world. Readers have come to expect a playful extravagance in his poetry. Most recently, he has opened himself to the mysteries of geologic wonder. "Who needs ghosts when matter /nonchalantly haunts us," he writes. In his new book, perhaps his most stunning yet, it's fossils and deep time that provide the awe. The landscape of Newfoundland has taken his linguistic virtuosity even further, sharpened his wit, and given him a lyric energy that sometimes feels as if he's lifting the planet into song.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771055110
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Multi-award-winning poet Don McKay returns with a startling collection of new poems, his first since his Griffin Poetry Prize winning book, Strike/Slip Don McKay is known, among other things, as Canada's foremost poet of the natural world. Readers have come to expect a playful extravagance in his poetry. Most recently, he has opened himself to the mysteries of geologic wonder. "Who needs ghosts when matter /nonchalantly haunts us," he writes. In his new book, perhaps his most stunning yet, it's fossils and deep time that provide the awe. The landscape of Newfoundland has taken his linguistic virtuosity even further, sharpened his wit, and given him a lyric energy that sometimes feels as if he's lifting the planet into song.
Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder, Donald McKay
Author: Richard C. McKay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailing ships
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailing ships
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Information, Mechanism and Meaning
Author: Donald MacCrimmon MacKay
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026263032X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
A collection of selected papers written by the information theorist and "brain physicist," most of which were presented to various scientific conferences in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of this collection concerns MacKay's abiding preoccupation with information as represented and utilized in the brain and exchanged between human beings, rather than as formalized in logical patterns of elementary propositions.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026263032X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
A collection of selected papers written by the information theorist and "brain physicist," most of which were presented to various scientific conferences in the 1950s and 1960s. Most of this collection concerns MacKay's abiding preoccupation with information as represented and utilized in the brain and exchanged between human beings, rather than as formalized in logical patterns of elementary propositions.
The Ship "Great Republic" and Donald McKay Her Builder
Author: Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Republic (Ship)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Republic (Ship)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Donald McKay and the Ships He Built
Author: Richard Cornelius McKay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Another Gravity
Author: Don McKay
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551996642
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
From one of Canada’s most acclaimed poets and the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. This book, Don McKay’s ninth collection, practises "the dark art of reflection" – which, as one of the poems tells us, whether boldly or capriciously, could not have existed without the moon – as it moves ever more deeply into ideas of home.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551996642
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
From one of Canada’s most acclaimed poets and the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. This book, Don McKay’s ninth collection, practises "the dark art of reflection" – which, as one of the poems tells us, whether boldly or capriciously, could not have existed without the moon – as it moves ever more deeply into ideas of home.
The Killer Cop and the Murder of Donald MacKay
Author: John Jiggens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957868427
Category : Drug control
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Frank Nugan was a banker who had the power to make money disappear. His financial trickery lay behind the bottom-of-the-harbour scandal and the Nugan Hand Bank. Fred Krahe was the Frightener, an ex-detective who had the power to make people disappear. He was the killer cop. Donald Mackay was murdered to protect an enormous secret. In THE KILLER COP and the murder of Donald Mackay, historian Dr John Jiggens reveals that secret.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957868427
Category : Drug control
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Frank Nugan was a banker who had the power to make money disappear. His financial trickery lay behind the bottom-of-the-harbour scandal and the Nugan Hand Bank. Fred Krahe was the Frightener, an ex-detective who had the power to make people disappear. He was the killer cop. Donald Mackay was murdered to protect an enormous secret. In THE KILLER COP and the murder of Donald Mackay, historian Dr John Jiggens reveals that secret.
Don McKay
Author: Brian Bartlett
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550712520
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Analyzing 30 years of Don McKay's achievements, this critique explores one of the most original bodies of work in contemporary English-language poetry. Emphasizing details of ornithology, botany, weather, industry, and the arts, as well as focusing on varied geographic settings, his poetry opens countless doors for analysis. Fourteen contributors examine the complex contradictions of McKay's work, including nuanced description and intricate metaphor, philosophical phrasing and folksy idiom, madcap humor and elegy.
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550712520
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Analyzing 30 years of Don McKay's achievements, this critique explores one of the most original bodies of work in contemporary English-language poetry. Emphasizing details of ornithology, botany, weather, industry, and the arts, as well as focusing on varied geographic settings, his poetry opens countless doors for analysis. Fourteen contributors examine the complex contradictions of McKay's work, including nuanced description and intricate metaphor, philosophical phrasing and folksy idiom, madcap humor and elegy.