Streak, the
Parrot Who Loves Me

By David L. O'Neal

San Francisco, Green Parrot Press, 2009

With 3 color cover illus. & 2 black and white text illus. 82 pages. Soft-cover.

Streak, the Parrot Who Loves Me is a non-fiction book and describes the
closely bonded relationship my 10-year old Yellow-collared macaw and I
have: our beginnings in Boston, her intelligence, her antics, empathy and
behavior, what we do together such as nap, shower, and kayak, her
personality, the times she has nearly been lost, our adventures together on a
houseboat in Sausalito, CA, our life together in San Francisco, and so forth.
The first chapter was published in Birdkeeper Magazine (Great Britain) and
several of the original poems which serve as tail-pieces to the chapters have
been published in literary magazines. There are very few books of this kind.

Streak, the Parrot... is $12.75 postpaid in the United States. Orders from
other countries will be billed postage at cost. Order from the Contact Me
page on this website or directly from me at davidloneal@yahoo.com, or
phone 415-933-8602

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The Sailor’s Hornbook, or ABC;
With a Vermiform Appendix on Racing Terminology

“He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.”—Mohammed / Koran

by

David L. O’Neal

Illustrated by Jennifer Powell

Book Surge—Global Publishing
North Charleston, South Carolina
(Soft cover - 154 pages - ISBN 1-59457-585-1: $15.00)

Order, preferably, from David O'Neal at davidloneal.us (go to the Contact Me page) or
davidloneal@yahoo,com

Or at Amazon.com

Reviews

"Destined to become a classic of nautical humor. Like most classics, it will be well known and seldom read." -
Mark Twain        

“The funniest book I’ve ever read—except one of my own.”—James Thurber

“Clever! Should be in every sailor’s duffel. A good read, especially when accompanied by several glasses of
gin.”—Sir Francis Charles Chichester.

“Music to my ears—the verse is positively oceanic and sings in perfect twelve- meter.”—Sir Neville Mariner.

“A good book, with lots of arcane nautical lore, but will it float?”—L. Francis Herreshoff.

“Si O’Neal había sido mi navegante, yo nunca habría descubierto América.”—Columbus de Cristobal.

“Amusing. Nonetheless,  I won’t let O’Neal within one hundred miles of any of my boats.”—Margaret
Spencer, certifiable US Sailing instructor.

Examples

NAVIGATION. Traditional navigation, without electronics, is the art and science of getting the boat to its
destination with the use of cheap plastic instruments such as parallel rulers, plotters and protractors.
Applying the rule of unintentional consequences, or the navigator’s calculations being imprecise, it has
been found that the average result of traditional navigation is about 150 miles either side of the targeted
landfall. See Circumnavigation and Intentionality.

While navigators are indispensable,
I knew one who was reprehensible;
He attacked a young maid,
And made her afraid;
At the trial he was found indefensible.

e=mc2

ENTRANCE. The way to get in, as to a harbor. If the entrance is long, narrow, and crooked, and is to be
sailed rather than motored, the likelihood of reaching the end undamaged can be predetermined by the
formula E=mc2 [where E=width of entrance, m=mass of boat, c=average estimated speed thru curves, and 2
=number of sharp turns (2,3,4,etc). This is one of the essential sailing formulas to know well. See CAPE and
Vorticity Equation.



David L. O'Neal
3550 FultonStreet
San Francisco, CA 94118

davidloneal@yahoo.com


                                                             

Other Books by David O'Neal:

Alphabeastiary I & II. Being 52 mostly humorous poems on birds, animals, reptiles, fish; 55 pages,
illustrated, soft cover. $5.00

Light and Dark: Poems. 119 pages, soft cover [with] Poems II: Supplement to  Light and Dark. 18
pages, soft cover. Together 2 vols. $15.00

Georgia on my Vine and Other Masterpieces of Modern Literature. Being short stories and sketches.
210 pages, soft cover. $15.00

Streak, the Parrot Who Loves Me. 82 pages, soft-cover, 3 color illustrations, 2
black & white illusustrations. $12.75, postpaid in the U.S.

These may be ordered directly from this website  (on the Contact Me page); or from davidloneal@yahoo.
com
STREAK, THE PARROT WHO LOVES ME