That Went By Fast
My First Hundred Years
Will be published approx. on 11. December 2014
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-55017-668-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ex-logger and gas station owner Frank White says living to the age of one hundred is not all its cracked up to be but it has some plusses. But Now that everything is starting to get hazy, theyre not satisfied unless I can tell them the meaning of life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
British Columbia
Canada
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
40 B&W photos
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55017-668-1 (9781550176681)
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Person
Frank White (1914-2015) started writing the story of his life as a pioneer BC truck driver in 1974 when he was only sixty. His boisterous yarn in Raincoast Chronicles 3 about wrangling tiny trucks overloaded with huge logs down steep mountains with no brakes won the Canadian Media Club award for Best Magazine Feature and was reprinted so many times everyone urged him to write more. He started in his spare time but kept having so many new adventures he didn't finish until his hundredth year under heaven (which he didn't believe in). In the end he had written enough for two books--Milk Spills and One-Log Loads: Memories of a Pioneer Truck Driver (Harbour, 2013), and a sequel, That Went By Fast: My First Hundred Years (Harbour, 2014). The former truck driver, logger, gas station operator, excavationist, waterworks technician and homespun philosopher lived to see 101 years. He shared a home in Garden Bay, BC, with his wife, author Edith Iglauer.