Ben Maartman

Ben was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1924. Raised on farms, he served
in the navy, and later became a correctional social worker.
For many years he did radio and film scripts for the CBC, mainly on social themes.
Skidrow: Italia Award. The Dirty Thirties: Wilderness Award.
Belize: one hour film documentary. The Manipulator Series. The family spent three school
years in Belize. Ben and Blanche live in rural Vancouver Island, where they
raised seven children. Since 1983 they have been low-budget world travellers,
including a year teaching ESL in China.

Books by Ben Maartman

The Iron Bowl Blues & Other Peeks Behind The Bamboo Curtain
About the frolics and torments of a year
teaching ESL in china. Plus China travel.
Fogduckers Press 162p's $9.95

The Strange Thing About Miracles & Other Stories
A correctional socia lworker’s account of Canada’s first hectic experiment
in paroling recidivist penitentiary heroin addicts.
Plus fiction stories; on native reserves, death row and a senseless killing.
Fogduckers Press 128p's $7.95

Marco Polo On The O.A.S. - A Low Budget World Travel Guide For All Ages
How to travel the world on Old Age Security while banking money.
Fogduckers Press 223p's $14.95

The Lost Treasures of Yucatan - A Belizean Saga
A Young Adult Novel - For all ages.
Two boys with an ancient diary go into the Yucatan rain forests
seeking famous lost treasures. Their discoveries are beyond
their wildest imaginations.
Fogduckers Press 108p's $9.95

A Boy's Story
As Told By Paddy Hood To Ben Maartman
In 1935 Paddy Hood and two younger sisters traveled
from the slums of England's Tyneside to the
Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School
For Orphans And Impoverished Children near
Duncan, B.C. They took the kids out of the
slums but taking the slums out of the kids was
another story.
Fogduckers Press 114p's $11.95

BOOTS A Bad Crossing
This episode of the human comedy entwines The Battle of the
Atlantic with the battle of marriage as two young folk share
love at first sight and spend the rest of their lives wondering
what they got into.
The story in the present takes place in the last week of June, 1998
when 74 year old Brenda takes Boots to the hospital for a new hip, and
inadvertently lets a huge family skeleton out of the closet. This sets both people
re-examining their entire lives; Boots with the help of morphine pad
attachment; Brenda with the help of Boots' blackberry wine.
The two people tip-toe the twin paths of self-destruction and salvation
until the paths all merge at the end of the day.
Fogduckers Press 200p's $14.95

The above books are available from Fogduckers Press
without the retail bookstore 40% mark up.
Order direct for your created in B.C. original birthday and Xmas presents.
Pay when you receive your book and invoice.
Box 144, Errington, B.C. V0R 1V0
Canada.

Phone: (250)248-8325
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