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Book Synopsis Men Against the Sea by : Charles Nordhoff
Download or read book Men Against the Sea written by Charles Nordhoff and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men Against the Sea follows the events after the Mutiny on the Bounty, when Fletcher Christian and mutineers took control of the ship and set Lieutenant Bligh afloat in a small boat with members of the crew loyal to him. The story follows the journey of Lieutenant William Bligh and the eighteen men set adrift in an open boat by the mutineers of the Bounty. The story is told from the perspective of Thomas Ledward, the Bounty's acting surgeon, who went into the ship's launch with Bligh. Bligh exceeds with his inexhaustible determination and unfaltering leadership, saving the lives of his men and leading them through a horrific experience, to survive the South Pacific.
Book Synopsis The Perfect Storm by : Sebastian Junger
Download or read book The Perfect Storm written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of men against the sea.
Book Synopsis Bounty Trilogy by : Charles Nordhoff
Download or read book Bounty Trilogy written by Charles Nordhoff and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 1985-07-30 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wyeth edition of the three tales of the Bounty.
Book Synopsis The Old Man and the Sea by : Ernest Hemingway
Download or read book The Old Man and the Sea written by Ernest Hemingway and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Josephine Against the Sea by : Shakirah Bourne
Download or read book Josephine Against the Sea written by Shakirah Bourne and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Josephine, the most loveable mischief-maker in Barbados, in a magical, heartfelt adventure inspired by Caribbean mythology. * “A heart-wrenching adventure with big laughs and well-earned surprises.” –Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Eleven-year-old Josephine knows that no one is good enough for her daddy. That's why she makes a habit of scaring his new girlfriends away. She's desperate to make it onto her school's cricket team because she'll get to play her favorite sport AND use the cricket matches to distract Daddy from dating. But when Coach Broomes announces that girls can't try out for the team, the frustrated Josephine cuts into a powerful silk cotton tree and accidentally summons a bigger problem into her life . . . The next day, Daddy brings home a new catch, a beautiful woman named Mariss. And unlike the other girlfriends, this one doesn't scare easily. Josephine knows there's something fishy about Mariss but she never expected her to be a vengeful sea creature eager to take her place as her father's first love! Can Josephine convince her friends to help her and use her cricket skills to save Daddy from Mariss's clutches before it's too late?
Book Synopsis Men Against the Sea by : Charles Nordhoff
Download or read book Men Against the Sea written by Charles Nordhoff and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2003-07-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEN AGAINST THE SEA is the epic story of the 19 loyal men who, with Captain Bligh at the helm, were set adrift in a 23-foot open launch. Their 3,600-mile voyage remains one of the greatest feats of courage and adventure in the annals of the sea.
Book Synopsis Men Against the Sea – Book Set by : James Norman Hall
Download or read book Men Against the Sea – Book Set written by James Norman Hall and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 1835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Press presents to you this unique sea adventures collection with novels about mutinies, shipwrecks, travels, and tales of the South Seas. Table of Contents: The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairn's Island Other Sea Adventures: The Hurricane The Dark River Botany Bay Lost Island The High Barbaree The Far Lands Faery Lands of the South Seas The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas: The Forgotten One Captain Handy's Memoirs Sing: A Song of Sixpence A Happy Hedonist Rivnac Frisbie of Danger Island James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.
Book Synopsis All the Men in the Sea by : Michael Krieger
Download or read book All the Men in the Sea written by Michael Krieger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, Hurricane Roxanne ravaged the Gulf of Mexico, trapping 245 workers manning barge 269 on a pipeline in the Yucatan Peninsula. Here, Krieger tells the harrowing true story of one of the greatest sea rescues in history.
Book Synopsis Trapped Under the Sea by : Neil Swidey
Download or read book Trapped Under the Sea written by Neil Swidey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-02-17 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.
Book Synopsis Mutiny on the Bounty by : Charles Nordhoff
Download or read book Mutiny on the Bounty written by Charles Nordhoff and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 1989-04-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British crew mutinies against the cruel commander of the Bounty in 1787.
Book Synopsis Men Against the Sea – Book Set by : James Norman Hall
Download or read book Men Against the Sea – Book Set written by James Norman Hall and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 1829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you this unique sea adventures collection with novels about mutinies, shipwrecks, travels, and tales of the South Seas._x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ The Bounty Trilogy:_x000D_ Mutiny on the Bounty_x000D_ Men Against the Sea_x000D_ Pitcairn's Island_x000D_ Other Sea Adventures:_x000D_ The Hurricane_x000D_ The Dark River_x000D_ Botany Bay_x000D_ Lost Island_x000D_ The High Barbaree_x000D_ The Far Lands_x000D_ Faery Lands of the South Seas_x000D_ The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas:_x000D_ The Forgotten One_x000D_ Captain Handy's Memoirs_x000D_ Sing: A Song of Sixpence_x000D_ A Happy Hedonist_x000D_ Rivnac_x000D_ Frisbie of Danger Island_x000D_ James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.
Download or read book Safe from the Sea written by Peter Geye and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Against the dramatic Northern Minnesota lakeshore, a son and his father reconnect thirty-five years after the father has survived the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Pitcairn's Island by : Charles Nordhoff
Download or read book Pitcairn's Island written by Charles Nordhoff and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitcairn's Island is the third episode in the fictional trilogy by Charles Nordhoff about the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty. Excerpt: "The shadows were long in the clearing, for it was late afternoon. Grass was already beginning to hide the ashes about the blackened stumps. As he sat on the doorstep of his house, the slope of the ground to the west gave Williams a view of the sea above the tree-tops. Snow-white terns, in pairs, sailed back and forth overhead. It was their mating season and they were pursuing one another, swooping and tumbling in aerial play. No wind was astir; the air, saturated with moisture, was difficult to breathe. Williams rose, cursing the heat, went to the small cookhouse behind his cabin, and kindled a fire to prepare his evening meal. At last the sun set angrily, behind masses of banked-up clouds, dull crimson and violet. It was not a night for sleep. The blacksmith was on foot before dawn, and the first grey of morning found him crossing the ridge, on his way to Christian's house."
Book Synopsis The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by : Sebastian Junger
Download or read book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997-05-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is nothing imaginary about Junger's book; it is all terrifyingly, awesomely real." —Los Angeles Times It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high—a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." In a book that has become a classic, Sebastian Junger explores the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storm touched. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller that makes us feel like we've been caught, helpless, in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding or control. Winner of the American Library Association's 1998 Alex Award.
Book Synopsis Many Were Held by the Sea by : R. Neil Scott
Download or read book Many Were Held by the Sea written by R. Neil Scott and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 8:43 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, October 6, 1918, HMS Kashmir rammed HMS Otranto off Islay, Scotland. Both ships were former British passenger liners from the P&O Steamship Company that had been pulled into the war to ferry American soldiers between New York and various British ports. On this stormy morning, however, they were part of Convoy HX-50 carrying troops to Liverpool. On board were 372 British officers and sailors and 701 American soldiers. The Americans were mostly Southern farm boys from Fort Screven in Savannah under the command of Lt. Sam Levy, a Georgia Tech graduate from Atlanta. The Kashmir managed to back away and follow the harsh wartime order that required her to ignore any maritime disasters that might befall her sister ships and to continue on her prescribed course rather than stop and take on survivors. Thus it was that—with winds blowing at 70 to 75 mph and waves at more than 60 feet—the severely damaged Otranto was left dead in the water with more than a thousand souls aboard. Many Were Held by the Sea: The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto, tells the story of what happened during that voyage—mostly from the perspective of the American soldiers—and builds to the disastrous conclusion. The narrative details the courage of the young men on board, men who, for the most part, had never seen the ocean or learned to swim. It tells of the anguish from the home front, as family members had to wait weeks to learn the fate of their relatives. In addition, Scott’s narrative tells the personal story of Lieutenant Craven of the Royal Navy, serving as Commander of the rescue ship, who was forced to gamble with the lives of those on both ships in order to save the maximum number of passengers.
Book Synopsis Men Against the Sea by : Charles Nordhoff
Download or read book Men Against the Sea written by Charles Nordhoff and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outlaw Ocean written by Ian Urbina and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
