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George Perkins


Biography

Born in Massachusetts, writer, scholar, world traveler. Books to date have sold over a million copies.

Where to find George Perkins online

Website: http://georgeperkins.net
Twitter: GandBP
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Where to buy in print

http://www.amazon.com/George-B.-Perkins/e/B001IQZOV0/ref=sr_tc_ep?qid=1295720321

Books

Travel Gems: Cruising from the Baltic to the North Atlantic    by George Perkins
Price: $3.00 USD. 15800 words. Published on November 27, 2010. Nonfiction.
Cruising on the Holland American ship Prinsendam from England to Denmark,East Germany,Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Holland, France, Guernsey and Spain. Highlights include the Carnac Megoliths, The Peterhof in St. Petersburg, La Coruña and Bilbao in Spain, the glorious landscape and sad WWII history of Guernsey, the Delft tile works, and the Chocolate Museum in Belgium.
Around the World on the QE2: The Last of the Great Ocean Liners    by George Perkins
Price: $5.00 USD. 76120 words. Published on May 14, 2010. Nonfiction.
A personal account of the the ship's last world cruise, with many photos. Places visited include the Taj Mahal, Jaipur,Mount Parnassus, Cape Horn, Egypt, Easter Island, Hong Kong,the Great Wall, Dubai, Salalah, Safaga, Valencia, Lisbon, Fort Lauderdale, Barbados, Salvadore da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Strait of Magellan,Tahiti, Moorea, Pitcairn Island,Tonga, New Zealand,and Australia
Writing Clear Prose    by George Perkins
Price: $2.99 USD. 28590 words. Published on April 28, 2010. Nonfiction.
A handbook for writers. Intended for self-help and classroom use, it contains chapters on the paragraph, the sentence, diction, the writing as a whole, and style, with exercises at the end of each chapter. Intended primarily to clarify the writing of essays, memoirs, and other forms of non-fiction, it also provides suggestions for improving fictional style.
Stones Stand, Waters Flow    by George Perkins
Price: $5.00 USD. 111580 words. Published on April 20, 2010. Nonfiction.
The Perkins farm,stood as a monument to history. Hancock and Adams had fled there from Lexington. The barn where they stabled their horses remained standing in the author's childhood in the 1930s and 1940s. A twentieth-century childhood mixed history with economic depression, wartime, and a mother's depression, as the slow seasons of the past hastened toward the swift changes of the future.
Rare Days in Lost Valley    by George Perkins
Price: $5.00 USD. 88950 words. Published on April 13, 2010. Fiction.
A group of scholars meet at Bellwether University, not far from Ann Arbor, for an International Conference on Multicultural Initiatives. They become enmeshed in a tangle of plots that involve love triangles, the impersonation of a famous critic, the theft of a cigar store Indian, and an attempt to enter the school's mascot, a pit bull, in the local dogfights.
A Season in New South Wales    by George Perkins
Price: $4.00 USD. 97210 words. Published on April 6, 2010. Nonfiction.
Australia's wonderful beaches,spectacular back country, bush fires and wild life, panning for gold and sapphires, Sydney, the University of Newcastle, Australian literature, Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, wombats, emus, koalas, kangaroos, Ned Kelly, Byron Bay, Hunter Valley Wineries, convict history: these are a few of the topics covered.

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Smashwords book reviews by George Perkins

  • Emma's Pennsylvania Kitchen on July 26, 2011
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    We bought the Lulu paperback book. This is an excellent edition of a a very good book. Good traditional recipes, excellently edited by Laura Perkins.