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Pacific Odyssey

Author : Gwenda Cornell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408173867
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Odyssey written by Gwenda Cornell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Pacific Islands conjure dreams of romantic charm and escape from the pressures of modern life - but is this a true picture of real life on the Islands today? Gwenda Cornell sailed to these Islands to discover the quality of life, history and culture of the peoples who inhabit these remote and beautiful places. Sailing with her family on the yacht Aventura, Gwenda explores many corners of the Pacific that can still only be reached by sea. The odyssey takes her to the mysteries of Easter Island, to Samoa and to the descendants of the Bounty mutineers on Pitcairn. Gwenda witnesses history in the making in Tuvalu's birth as a nation and finds the last royal nose-flute player in Tonga. The exuberance with which the Pacific Islanders enjoy their lives bears witness to Gwenda's final analysis that 'the South Pacific remains a peaceful oasis in a troubled world and the "Pacific Way" can serve as an inspiration to those who live in a fast-moving, competitive society.'

National Geographic Ocean

Author : Sylvia Earle
Publisher : National Geographic
ISBN 13 : 9781426221927
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Ocean written by Sylvia Earle and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 2021 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A summary by famed marine biologist Sylvia Earle of the latest insights about the present state of the ocean and a look at how its future and that of humankind are inextricably bound"--

Amazing Animals: Ocean Odyssey

Author : Tony Mitton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0753430061
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Animals: Ocean Odyssey written by Tony Mitton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The North Pacific Ocean is vast and dark and deep. It's home to many creatures that swim and float and creep. Join Rabbit, Mouse, and Bird as they dive beneath the waves of the North Pacific Ocean and meet a host of amazing animals along the way"--P. [4] of cover.

Tightwads on the Loose

Author : Wendy Hinman
Publisher : Wendy E. Hinman
ISBN 13 : 9780984835003
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Tightwads on the Loose written by Wendy Hinman and published by Wendy E. Hinman. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone dreams of tropical escape. But what happens when you escape for too long? Imagine spending 24 hours a day with your spouse in 31 not-so-square feet . . . for years; crossing the Pacific Ocean on two gallons of fuel; and tossing spaghetti marinara around your living room, then cleaning it up while bouncing like ice in a martini shaker. Tightwads on the Loose tells the story of Wendy and Garth, lured to sea by the promise of adventure. They buy a 31-foot boat that fits their budget better than it fits Garth's large frame and set sail for an open-ended voyage, never imagining they'd be gone seven years, or cover 34,000 miles at the pace of a fast walk. They live without most "necessities" and learn that teamwork and a sense of humor matter most as they face endless "character-building opportunities." They make a long-anticipated visit to the island where Garth had been shipwrecked as a teenager, only to find it had become a penal colony. An electronic catastrophe in the Solomon Islands leaves them without navigation equipment, which forces them to trade their free-wheeling lifestyle for one that seems straight out of a '60s sitcom: jobs at a U.S. Army base in the Marshall Islands. In Asia, they dodge typhoons and ships that threaten to turn their home into kindling. Finally they endure a grueling 49-day nonstop ocean crossing. None of this prepares them for their arrival "home" to a post-9/11 America which leaves them wondering what had changed more, them or the world. Tightwads on the Loose offers a fun read to the armchair adventurer -- or anyone afflicted with wanderlust.

A Tidal Odyssey

Author : Richard Astro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870711589
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book A Tidal Odyssey written by Richard Astro and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, just weeks before his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts died, John Steinbeck wrote of Ricketts process of discovery, noting that "a young, inquisitive, and original man might one morning find a fissure in the traditional technique of thinking. Through this fissure he might look out and find a new external world about him." A Tidal Odyssey a conversation about that "young, inquisitive, and original man" who found "a new external world about him" and so captivated the imagination of scientists and lay readers alike as he transformed our understanding of the seashore. This is a book about that remarkable man and his pathbreaking book about marine life on the Pacific Coast of North America. With his friend Jack Calvin, Ricketts authored his magnum opus, Between Pacific Tides (1939), a guide to the seashore invertebrates in one of the most prolific life zones in the world. He and Calvin describe the key field characteristics of the species, and then place them in their ecological context, by habitat, in a natural history-based narrative. At a time when almost all studies of life in the intertidal zones were taxonomic, Ricketts and Calvin revolutionized the field and helped to lay the groundwork for studies of the impact of environmental change on the natural world. By happenstance, Ed Ricketts is best known as a character in John Steinbeck's fiction. But the real man is obscured by Steinbeck's authorial license. Steinbeck's Doc is the quirky young man who reads Li Po and drinks beer milkshakes. He was also a serious marine biologist who conducted pioneering studies of life in the intertidal zones. He was a true renaissance man -- conversant in music and philosophy, poetry and mythology. Friendly with such notables as mythologist Joseph Campbell, experimental composer John Cage, and novelist Henry Miller, as well as with Steinbeck and many of the most eminent biologists of his time, he was a man for all seasons. This, then, is a book for readers who are interested in the world of Ed Ricketts as well as marine biology, intertidal ecology, and the manner in which ecological studies underpin our understanding of the impact of environmental change on the well being of our planet.

Battleground Pacific

Author : Sterling Mace
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250009774
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Battleground Pacific written by Sterling Mace and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battleground Pacific is a powerfully wrought military memoir by a member of World War II's fabled 1st Marine division. Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and his story takes readers through some of the most intense action of the Pacific War, from the seldom-seen perspective of a rifleman at the point of attack. Battleground Pacific is filled with indelible moments that begin with his childhood growing up in Queens, New York, and his run-in with the law that eventually led to his enlistment. But this is ultimately a combat tale—as violent and harrowing as any that has come before. From fighting through the fiery hell that was Peleliu to the deadly battleground of Okinawa, Mace traces his path from the fear of combat to understanding that killing another human comes just as easily as staying alive. He learns that bravery often equates to stupidity, leading to the death of close friends, but also that life goes on, with death on its heels. Battleground Pacific is one of the most important and entertaining memoirs about the Pacific theater in WWII.

Ocean Odyssey

Author : Alexander Von Net
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Odyssey written by Alexander Von Net and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold and intrepid German sea captain from both world wars had been captured by the American military in 1944, where he was given a choice to help them in their fight against the ferocious army of Imperial Japan or go to prison for life. Out of the well-being of his crew, his desire to see his family again, and for himself, he takes a dangerous but morally patriotic risk of serving in the US Marines during the brutal island-hopping campaign. During a major battle where he bravely endured the horrors of infantry combat, he is captured by an all-powerful, mysterious, otherworldly being, and he found himself as a guest in a lost undersea world. After a bizarre, almost-alien encounter, he is deliberately frozen in time for a thousand years and awakens in a dystopian future world that finds itself in a new conflict. His new hosts see the heroism and goodness in him, too, and they realized because of his experience, he could lead them in their struggle to defend their new homeland against a sinister force and with that rebuild a proud republic of legend once known in time as America.

Strand: an Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris (DVD)

Author : Bonnie Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Strand: an Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris (DVD) written by Bonnie Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Child of the Sea

Author : Doina Cornell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408181533
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Child of the Sea written by Doina Cornell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Child of the Sea is the true story of Jimmy Cornell's daughter sailing around the world on the family's small yacht from the age of 7 to 14, based on Doina's diaries, letters and memories. From 1975 to 1981 the Cornell family visited 54 countries, sailed more than 68,000 miles, and travelled about the same distance overland. The story is told from Doina's point of view, although the main part of the book focuses on the family's three-year stay in the Pacific when she is aged between 10 and 13. Child of the Sea is unusual in that it gives a glimpse into a life that most young children couldn't imagine, swimming, diving and playing the days away in deserted anchorages; visiting some of the most beautiful islands in the world; falling in love with the sea in all its ever-changing moods, from balmy trade wind ocean passages to the treacherous breakers that crash onto tropical reefs, and taking a full part in sailing and handling the yacht on passage. The book also tells the story of a girl's coming of age in the South Pacific, understanding different cultures and values, and experiencing at first-hand how people judge each other depending on the colour of their skin - from the time on Easter Island when tourists mistake Doina for a Polynesian girl, to her and her brother's hostile prejudiced reception back in an English school at the end of their journey. What do children need to grow up happy and healthy? Security with their family; an element of risk; freedom to explore the world; openness to other peoples and cultures; closeness with nature and the elements and an appreciation of the environment and our finite resources. The sailing life offers all this and more, and this book captures it all.

Oceans Odyssey 3

Author : Sean A. Kingsley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782971491
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Oceans Odyssey 3 written by Sean A. Kingsley and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa, Florida, commenced the world’s first robotic archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in the Straits of Florida. At a depth of 405 meters, 16,903 artefacts were recovered using a Remotely-Operated Vehicle. The wreck is interpreted as the Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario, a small Portuguese-built and Spanish-operated merchant vessel from the 1622 Tierra Firme fleet returning to Seville from Venezuela’s Pearl Coast when lost in a hurricane. Oceans Odyssey 3 introduces the shipwreck and its artefact collection – today owned and curated by Odyssey Marine Exploration – ranging from gold bars to silver coins, pearls, ceramics, beads, glass wares, astrolabes, tortoiseshell, animal bones and seeds. The Tortugas shipwreck reflects the daily life of trade with the Americas at the end of the Golden Age of Spain and presents the capabilities of deep-sea robotics as tools for precision archaeological excavation.

Pacific Odyssey

Author : Cherry Farrow
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Odyssey written by Cherry Farrow and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cosmic Odyssey

Author : Linda Schweizer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262044293
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Odyssey written by Linda Schweizer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From newborn galaxies to icy worlds and blazing quasars, a behind-the-scenes story of how Palomar Observatory astronomers unveiled our complex universe. Ever since 1936, pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory in Southern California have pushed against the boundaries of the known universe, making a series of dazzling discoveries that changed our view of the cosmos: quasars, colliding galaxies, supermassive black holes, brown dwarfs, supernovae, dark matter, the never-ending expansion of the universe, and much more. In Cosmic Odyssey, astronomer Linda Schweizer tells the story of the men and women at Palomar and their efforts to decipher the vast energies and mysterious processes that govern our universe. Palomar was the Apollo mission of its era. The first images from the 200-inch George Ellery Hale telescope, commissioned in 1948 as the world's largest, generated as much excitement as images from the moon in 1969 and from the Hubble Space Telescope more recently. So far, Palomar's “Big Eye” and three other telescopes have yielded more than 75,000 telescope-nights of precious data. Schweizer takes readers behind the scenes of scientific discovery, mapping the often chaotic process of detours, dead ends, and serendipitous leaps of insight. Although her focus is on Palomar, she follows threads of discovery across the world to other teams and observatories. Based on more than one hundred interviews and enhanced by research in scientific journals, her account paints a fascinating picture of how discrete insights acquired over decades by researchers in a global community cascade, collide, and finally coalesce into the discoveries we come to accept as facts.

Ocean Odyssey

Author : Mitton Tony ; Parker An
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780330510110
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Odyssey written by Mitton Tony ; Parker An and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bright and lively introduction to a fascinating habitat and a host of incredible animals Children will love joining Bird, Mouse and Rabbit as they dive into the North Pacific Ocean to meet some truly amazing animals. From a playful pod of dolphins leaping in the waves to an awesome angler fish lurking in the deep, there's a different animal on every page, plus many additional creatures to spot along the way! This delightful picture-book series is the perfect introduction to some really wild animals. Each of the Amazing Animals books features simple, easy-to-read text and bright, fun illustrations of creatures in their natural habitat.

A Marine's Odyssey

Author : Larry Ritchie Williams
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478792469
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book A Marine's Odyssey written by Larry Ritchie Williams and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Larry Williams spent twenty-seven years in the United States Marine Corps commanding ten units and organizations while serving from Japan and Vietnam to Moscow and Beirut. Here is his account. It started by a chance discovery and years later was dramatically reoriented by a coin toss. As the high school class of 1953 anticipated graduation they chatted in the hallways exchanging ideas about future plans. His afternoon and Saturday jobs during high school did not provide enough money for college. One day while changing classes he observed a booklet on his homeroom teacher's desk that described the NROTC as how one might earn a commission in the United States Navy and even compete for a college scholarship. It contained an application! Upon graduation from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill four years later he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps preparing to serve the obligated four years payback for his free education. It seemed like a good plan, but life often has little respect for planning. Within three years he was on Okinawa separated from his wife and their two newborns for a thirteen month deployment. On his return he joined the faculty at the Army Artillery and Missile School. Then it was another thirteen months away this time in Vietnam. Reassigned to Frankfurt, Germany he commanded Marine Security Guards in twenty-seven diplomatic posts in Europe including six "behind the Iron Curtain.” Upon graduation from the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk he and a classmate were informed by Headquarters, Marine Corps that they both were to be reassigned to WestPac (western pacific) for a year with one going to Okinawa and the other to Vietnam. Headquarters asked for their preferences. Both wanted to return to Vietnam. He lost the coin toss and it was back to Okinawa. That coin toss was to significantly restructure his career – and his life. The subsequent years included managing the security at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, California made turbulent by the prevailing civil rights and antiwar environment, contributing to the Marine Corps becoming the only military service to support every dollar spent with explicit cost-benefit analysis, in spite of opposition by the Army and the DoD fielding a totally new light armor combat capability into the Marine Corps with an innovative acquisition program completing within budget and only 2.25 years from concept to production, conducting Arctic exercises in North Norway including a night amphibious landing unseen by Russians just a mountain range away in Murmansk, commanding the largest artillery organization in the world and trying unsuccessfully to contribute to a peaceful resolution to conflict in Lebanon in 1983.

Pacific Ocean Odyssey

Author : Frank Bond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781675556306
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Ocean Odyssey written by Frank Bond and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of my service in WWII. It describes the war environment in the US, my training and service in Destroyer Squadron 23, the battles at sea in the Pacific, my marriage during the war, my return home near the end of the war and finally my service in the Naval Reserve after discharge from active Navy duty. I have recounted numerous experiences that convey the sense and deep feelings of those of us who served during those difficult and glorious four years when so many were called to serve and many died defending our country.

Morning of Fire

Author : Scott Ridley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062020196
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Morning of Fire written by Scott Ridley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morning of Fire by Scott Ridley is the thrilling story of 18th century American explorer and expeditioner John Kedrick as he journeyed for land and trade in the Pacific. Set against the backdrop of one of the most exciting and uncertain times in world history, John Kendrick’s odyssey aboard his sailing ship Lady Washington carries him from the shores of New England across the unexplored waters of the Pacific Northwest to the contentious ports of China and the war-ravaged islands of Hawaii, all while avoiding intrigues and traps from the British and the Spanish. Morning of Fire is riveting American and naval history that brings the era of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson gloriously alive—a tale of danger, adventure, and discovery that fans of Nathaniel Philbrick will not want to miss.

The Pacific Alone

Author : Dave Shively
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493026828
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Alone written by Dave Shively and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1987 Ed Gillet achieved what no person has accomplished before or since, a solo crossing from California to Hawaii by kayak. Gillet, at the age of 36 an accomplished sailor and paddler, navigated by sextant and always knew his position within a few miles. Still, Gillet underestimated the abuse his body would take from the relentless, pounding, swells of the Pacific, and early into his voyage he was covered with salt water sores and found that he could find no comfortable position for sitting or sleeping. Along the way he endured a broken rudder, among other calamities, but at last reached Maui on his 63rd day at sea, four days after his food had run out. Dave Shively brings Gillet’s remarkable story to life in this gripping narrative, based on exclusive access to Gillet’s logs as well as interviews with the legendary paddler himself.