Project Gutenberg 2008-09-08 Public domain in the USA. 99 Tolman, Albert Walter 1866 18010172 Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good E-text prepared by Bruce Albrecht, Verity White, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Jim Spurling, Fisherman" by Albert W. Tolman is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows the journey of Jim Spurling and his friends as they embark on a summer of adventure while fishing and working on Tarpaulin Island off the Maine coast. Through their experiences, themes of hard work, camaraderie, and personal growth are explored, particularly through the contrasting characters of Jim and Percy Whittington, the wealthy but inexperienced son of a millionaire. The opening of the story introduces a group of high school seniors at Graffam Academy discussing their summer plans. Jim Spurling comes up with the idea of working on the island owned by his Uncle Tom, who is unable to fish due to an ailment. Jim's friends, Roger Lane and Winthrop Stevens, express their interest in joining him, and they decide to take Percy Whittington, despite his lack of experience and reluctance to embrace the hard work ahead. As they prepare for their journey, their diverse backgrounds and contrasting attitudes promise an engaging blend of challenge and humor as they adapt to their new environment and responsibilities. The boys' decision sets the stage for their collective journey filled with both physical labor and personal transformations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Maine -- Juvenile fiction Fisheries -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 467100 466860 2024-09-11T09:50:27.430636 2023-09-12T04:03:00.950823 text/html text/html 472890 2008-09-08T14:32:59 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 520545 2021-01-04T02:45:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 602028 2024-09-11T09:50:36.530608 application/epub+zip 606808 2024-09-11T09:50:29.425672 application/epub+zip 250780 2024-09-11T09:50:28.286660 application/epub+zip 824101 2024-09-11T09:50:41.655561 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 775894 2024-09-11T09:50:35.542609 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 429476 2022-09-12T10:10:56.954274 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 422132 422038 2024-09-11T09:50:25.554670 2023-09-12T04:02:59.315811 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 421884 2021-01-04T02:45:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 166195 2021-01-04T02:45:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 421896 2021-01-04T02:45:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 166176 2021-01-04T02:45:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20103 2024-09-11T09:50:41.810555 application/rdf+xml 14265 2024-09-11T09:50:28.658650 image/jpeg 3768 2024-09-11T09:50:28.470659 image/jpeg 578981 2024-09-11T09:50:27.504635 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog