| Entry Text: | ROWLAND, John. Slipping the Lines: Adventures around the World in Peace and War. x, 512p., illus. North Battleford, Sask.: Turner-Warwick, 1993. ISBN: 0919899358.
Born in 1910, the author had an adventurous career as a youth and toured the world. In 1941 he joined the RCN and the last 50 pages of the book describe the lighter moments of his service in the Battle of the Atlantic first on the corvette Ville de Quebec and then on the Algerine Fort Frances. |
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