Ugh, need help finding a post on here (or recommend an autobiography)

[stang]

Was reading somewhere on here in the past couple days and someone recommended an autobiography that caught my eye and now that I have a kindle account all ready to go I am drawing a total blank on anything about it.

I guess recommend me some good reading.

Have read Theo Fleurys
All motley Crüe ones
Guns and Roses ones

Damn I wish I could find that one

[Jacks]

Maybe??

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...hy#post3636172

or

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...hy#post3638150

[undercoverbrother]

[stang]

Drew Carey! Yes!!!!

I will thank your next 15 posts for that!

[Jacks]

You don't need to thank all my posts, happy to help

[drhu22]

You will love this book...because I said so! (kidding)
http://www.amazon.ca/Endurance-Shack.../dp/078670621X

There is also a biography on the life of Jack London ( it might just be called 'Jack London') that I cant seem to find from the 60s or so that was very good.
Its hard to believe as you read it that its not fiction, and that someone actually had so many adventures.

[Ben_in_Canada]

This is my (ex) Father in law, he has led an incredible life!

Richard Mounsey grew up in a fishing community in Victoria, Australia. His stepfather and brother were fishermen and he was destined to follow in their footsteps. However, secretly he dreamed of becoming a Fisheries Officers and one day a National Director of Fisheries. Without having influential friends in the right government circles he realised at the age of 14 he would have to gain outstanding experience to give him the edge over other would-be Fisheries Officers. Thus he set a course that risked life and limb to achieve his goal, the only way he knew how. As a teenager trapped aboard a Japanese trawler he was physically abused, treated like a slave, thrown overboard, bitten by sea snakes and attacked by a crocodile. He wasted time working on the family shark boat before winning a Churchill Fellowship that took him to the polar reaches of Canada and a world of big catches and high stakes. With a few dollars behind him he went into a bad partnership in a trawler back home before becoming the United Nations Master Shark Fisherman consultant in the Caribbean. Five years later, in 1987, back in Australia, he headed up the Northern Territory’s Fishing Technology Section. During this period crocodile encounters and sea adventures dominated his daily life.

[Northendzone]

was it how to make love like a pornstar: the jenna jameson story?

/thread?

[Zevo]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Can't recommend this book enough. Amazing read.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by stang

Drew Carey! Yes!!!!

I will thank your next 15 posts for that!

I should add that I read it in the hospital 12 years ago, while recovering from major spinal surgery. I was pretty high while reading it.

[drhu22]

Originally Posted by Zevo

Can't recommend this book enough. Amazing read.

I might have read that one...is it about the search for the NWpassage? An excellent book on that subject is Pierre Bertons The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage

[icecube]

Originally Posted by Ben_in_Canada

This is my (ex) Father in law, he has led an incredible life!

Richard Mounsey grew up in a fishing community in Victoria, Australia. His stepfather and brother were fishermen and he was destined to follow in their footsteps. However, secretly he dreamed of becoming a Fisheries Officers and one day a National Director of Fisheries. Without having influential friends in the right government circles he realised at the age of 14 he would have to gain outstanding experience to give him the edge over other would-be Fisheries Officers. Thus he set a course that risked life and limb to achieve his goal, the only way he knew how. As a teenager trapped aboard a Japanese trawler he was physically abused, treated like a slave, thrown overboard, bitten by sea snakes and attacked by a crocodile. He wasted time working on the family shark boat before winning a Churchill Fellowship that took him to the polar reaches of Canada and a world of big catches and high stakes. With a few dollars behind him he went into a bad partnership in a trawler back home before becoming the United Nations Master Shark Fisherman consultant in the Caribbean. Five years later, in 1987, back in Australia, he headed up the Northern Territory’s Fishing Technology Section. During this period crocodile encounters and sea adventures dominated his daily life.

Sounds like someone was reading a few too many Billy Mumfrey tales before writing that book.

[Zevo]

Originally Posted by drhu22

I might have read that one...is it about the search for the NWpassage? An excellent book on that subject is Pierre Bertons The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage

More of an Arctic expedition that goes horribly wrong. Leaves out of Victoria B.C.

Scientists on board that have no idea what they are getting into and very poorly prepared.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Zevo

More of an Arctic expedition that goes horribly wrong. Leaves out of Victoria B.C.

Scientists on board that have no idea what they are getting into and very poorly prepared.

Doesn't help that the "hired gun" walks off to go "hunting" and never comes back.

[Ben_in_Canada]

Originally Posted by icecube

Sounds like someone was reading a few too many Billy Mumfrey tales before writing that book.

Who is Billy Mumfrey?
The only stuff I can find online refers to a Seinfeld character?