Dirty Windshields - The Podcast - Promo
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Finally! Grant Lawrence reads aloud each chapter from his outrageous and award-winning book "Dirty Windshields - the best and the worst of the Smugglers tour diaries" (Douglas and McIntyre, 2017) in a brand new podcast available now.
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Hermit of Desolation Sound - The Trailer
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Hermit of Desolation Sound is Grant Lawrence's latest true life adventure series, starring Russell Letawsky, the hermit philosopher who lived off the grid in a dank shack on West Coast of Canada for over a decade.
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Chapter Ten - Part Two - The End
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Bernard the German's colourful and adventurous life comes to a tragic and unpredictable end in Fiji.
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Chapter Ten - Part One - The Paradise
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Bernard the German and Darragh the Irishman barely survive what turns out to be Cyclone Thomas, a Category 4 tropical storm. They find themselves closest to Fiji, where life changes in ways the big German could have never have predicted.
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Chapter Nine - The Storm
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Bernard the German's dream of sailing around the world is threatened when he is diagnosed with cancer, but thanks to an Irish lucky charm / skipper-for-hire named Darragh McCarthy, together the two misfits attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean.
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Chapter Eight - The Sailboat
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After a serious health scare, Bernard the German decides to sell his hand-built eagle's nest of a cabin in Desolation Sound to follow his second dream: sailing around the world.
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Chapter Seven - The Goodbye
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Bernard the German rushes to help a Desolation Sound neighbour whose cabin has erupted into flames.
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Chapter Six - The Binoculars
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Bernard the German is viciously attacked by several of the creatures that roam the dense woods behind his Desolation Sound cabin.
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Chapter Five - The Cabin
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Bernard the German shook the Alberta dust once and for all and moved his young family to the West Coast where he took up work at the docks, always possessed to own a waterfront cabin in the wilderness. A one-line ad in the newspaper led him to Desolation Sound, BC.
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Chapter Four - The Striker
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When Bernard the German arrived in Canada in the late 1960s, he was immediately the target of anti-German bullying in the Alberta capital of Edmonton. He eventually took matters into his own hands... or feet... as it were.
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