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The Island of Sea Women

Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154877
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Island of Sea Women written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. “This vivid…thoughtful and empathetic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. “A wonderful ode to a truly singular group of women” (Publishers Weekly), The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits, and you…will love it” (Cosmopolitan).

Australia, New Zealand and Some Islands of the South Seas

Author : Frank George Carpenter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Australia, New Zealand and Some Islands of the South Seas written by Frank George Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

438 Days

Author : Jonathan Franklin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501116290
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book 438 Days written by Jonathan Franklin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.

Marine Botany and Sea-Side Objects; Embracing Every Feature of Interest Connected with this Delightful Sea-side Recreation, Etc

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Botany and Sea-Side Objects; Embracing Every Feature of Interest Connected with this Delightful Sea-side Recreation, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513-1548)

Author : Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813035406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513-1548) written by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These tales of seafaring and shipwrecks have been translated into English from Oviedo's 16th-century reports on the perils and disasters experienced by travellers to and from the New World. These narratives contain important information about colonial navigation, meteorology, geography, shipping, trade routes, and sociology.

Trapped Under the Sea

Author : Neil Swidey
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307886743
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Trapped Under the Sea written by Neil Swidey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.

Islands Torn in Seas

Author : Jacob Thiede
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Islands Torn in Seas written by Jacob Thiede and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the American Water Works Association

Author : American Water Works Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the American Water Works Association written by American Water Works Association and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 2012- contain only executive summaries of articles.

More Sea Fights of the Great War

Author : William Lionel Wyllie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book More Sea Fights of the Great War written by William Lionel Wyllie and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Island of Surprise

Author : Cyrus Townsend Brady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Island of Surprise written by Cyrus Townsend Brady and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Greater Britain

Author : Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke
Publisher : Philadelphia, Pa. : Lippincott
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Greater Britain written by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke and published by Philadelphia, Pa. : Lippincott. This book was released on 1869 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island Beneath the Sea

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063049643
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Island Beneath the Sea written by Isabel Allende and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea tells the story of one unforgettable woman—a slave and concubine determined to take control of her own destiny—in this sweeping historical novel that moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century “Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.”—Los Angeles Times The daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor, Zarité—known as Tété—was born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue. Growing up amid brutality and fear, Tété found solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the mysteries of voodoo. Her life changes when twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770 to run his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare. Overwhelmed by the challenges of his responsibilities and trapped in a painful marriage, Valmorain turns to his teenaged slave Tété, who becomes his most important confidant. The indelible bond they share will connect them across four tumultuous decades and ultimately define their lives.

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea. The mysterious island: Dropped from the clouds

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Twenty thousand leagues under the sea. The mysterious island: Dropped from the clouds written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life

Author : Elisée Reclus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life written by Elisée Reclus and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hungry as the Sea

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312600887
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Hungry as the Sea written by Wilbur Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1978.

Outing and the Wheelman

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outing and the Wheelman written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pacific Islands Pilot: Western groups

Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Islands Pilot: Western groups written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: