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Resumen de Días en Labrador: relatos de los trabajadores del mar
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A squall hits a boat full of boys on a calm spring day, and a doctor on the Labrador coast tells what follows.
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- 40.900 palabras
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- 1919by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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Días en Labrador: relatos de los trabajadores del mar in short
Labrador Days gives you eleven small stories and one large picture of a coast. You meet fishermen, trappers, traders, Inuit hunters, a blind Frenchman and a one-legged rogue, and you see how each faces ice, hunger and storms. The same ideas come back: courage when no one is watching, kindness to the poor and the stranger, and the plain good humour of people who share what little they have.
What Días en Labrador: relatos de los trabajadores del mar is about
What would you do if a squall hit your boat with your sons aboard, miles from shore and unable to swim? Labrador Days is a set of eleven tales by Wilfred Grenfell, the doctor who served the coast's fishing families. He gives you shipwrecks, blizzards, courtships and quarrels, all told with warmth. The first tale begins on a calm spring day and aboard a boat bound for firewood.
Para quién es. You will love it if you enjoy true-to-life adventure, sea and snow, small harbours, sled dogs, and storytellers who tell you about people and their courage in plain, friendly words.
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A calm spring day ends in a squall
The book opens with a family errand. Late ice has kept John Mitchell's firewood on the shore, twenty miles up the bay. When the weather clears, he sets out in a trap boat with his sons Jim, Tom, Neddie and Willie. Their grandmother does not want the youngest two to go, but they beg until she gives in.
All day the sun is bright, the wind is light, and the boys boil the kettle and sing hymns. Then, around seven in the evening, John sees a faint cat's-paw of wind on the water. He remembers that the boat has no ballast and that her sheets are made fast. Before he can free them, the squall strikes like a hammer.
The doctor hears this story from John himself, and it sets the tone for the whole book. The sea gives little warning on this coast. The people who live beside it meet its dangers with prayer, quick thinking and plain endurance.
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Joe and Nancy sail into trouble together
The second tale is about a young fisherman named Joe and his bride, Nancy.
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Kindness pays the doctor better than money
Two tales show what courage and generosity look like in a hungry year.
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Old griefs, new loves, and an unlikely partnership
In Two Cat's-Paws, old Jean Marquette keeps his daughter Marie close because a sudden squall once took his wife and children from him on a lonely island.
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Law on the coast comes in many forms
Portland Bill is told by Skipper Life Flynn, who remembers a newcomer who built a strange one-man boat and took what was not his.
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Mercy and blame on a dark winter night
Two Christmases begins on Christmas Eve with a young trapper, Malcolm McCrea, sharing his supper and a barrel of flour with a hungry stranger, Roderick Norman.
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The sea keeps a long memory
The last tale, The Red Island Shoals, is told in a cottage during a gale.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- John Mitchell A fisherman who takes his four sons up the bay in a trap boat to fetch winter firewood.
- Joe and Nancy A couple who marry after Joe builds their house, then go to the Labrador fishing on a schooner.
- Sally A solitary hunter with long hair and a trusty dog named Surefoot, who reads the signs of weather.
- Skipper John A poor fisherman at Deep-Water Creek who shelters an old sick couple and gives all he has.
- Ned Waring A young fisherman who wants to marry Marie and must win over her protective father, Uncle Johnnie.
- Emile Moreau A blind Frenchman who wants to work again and to feed his wife and children.
- Malcolm McCrea A generous young trapper who shares his food with strangers and then finds trouble on his own fur path.
- Uncle Rube An old sailor in a lonely cottage who keeps watch above the Red Island Shoals and cares for a small girl.
How it ends (spoiler)
The tales end in different ways. John Mitchell's boat is thrown ashore, and two of his sons are lost, though the family still raises a flag for their homecoming. Nancy survives and goes home. Ned Waring marries Marie. Ike is made to repay Emile. Kaiachououk is killed, and his killer pays in bears, foxes and dogs. Roderick Norman dies in his hut. Uncle Rube dies on the ice.
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Preguntas sobre Días en Labrador: relatos de los trabajadores del mar
What is Labrador Days about?
It is a collection of eleven tales about the fishermen, trappers, traders and Inuit of the Labrador coast.
Who tells the stories in Labrador Days?
The author, a doctor on the coast, is often the narrator and sometimes a character. Other tales are told by local people such as Uncle Eph, Skipper Life Flynn and Ned Waring, in their own plain voices.
Is Labrador Days based on true events?
Grenfell wrote from his own years among the people of the coast, and the tales read as true-to-life accounts of events and characters he knew. Some details may be shaped for storytelling.
What does a komatik mean in the book?
A komatik is a sled pulled by a team of dogs. It is the main winter transport on the coast, and many of the tales follow komatik journeys through snow, ice and storm.
Is Labrador Days easy to read?
The language is friendly, the voices are lively, and the stories are full of action and humour.
Cita esta edición
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason. Labrador Days: Tales of the Sea Toilers. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/labrador-days-tales-of-the-sea-toilers.
Grenfell, W. T. (2026). Labrador days: Tales of the sea toilers. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/labrador-days-tales-of-the-sea-toilers (Original work published 1919)
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason. Labrador Days: Tales of the Sea Toilers. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/labrador-days-tales-of-the-sea-toilers.
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