Elephant Speak: A Devoted Keeper's Life Among the Herd Interior Layout
This is the interior layout I made for Ooligan Press's nonfiction title that was published March 3, 2020. The layout for this book was composed of many elements including text, photos, illustrations, tables, etc.
This is the interior layout I made for Ooligan Press's nonfiction title that was published March 3, 2020. The layout for this book was composed of many elements including text, photos, illustrations, tables, etc.
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Twenty-one-year-old Roger in the port of Argentia, Newfoundland. (Personal
photo, 1958)
unsuccessful weeks of searching for work, he decided to head
for Portland, hopeful the city would be as good to him as it
had been to his family. Each morning, he left his parents’ home
and trod the streets in shoes damp from the day before. Every
evening, he returned with nothing to show for his efforts. He
was giving serious consideration to farming again, no matter
how dismal the pay, when his cousin Ralph called from Iowa.
He was in the same predicament as Roger, eager to work but
unable to find employment, and had just discovered the Coast
Guard offered training, adventure, and best of all, a paycheck.
Within the week, the cousins were reunited and had taken
their oath of enlistment. A few days later, they arrived at boot
camp in Cape May, New Jersey, the farthest east either of them
had ever traveled.
The first night in barracks proved to be a mind-altering
experience for the rustic, somewhat dewy-eyed pair. Crammed
together with street-wise, smart-mouthed, half-grown boys
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