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Skeletons on the Zahara

Author : Dean King
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759509697
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Skeletons on the Zahara written by Dean King and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.

Skeleton Coast

Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101205539
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Coast written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chairman of the Corporation Juan Cabrillo and his mercenary crew steer theOregon into battle against a militant leader and his cult-like followers in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Still smarting from a weapons-trade gone bad and a double-cross, Cabrillo takes action. He manages to save the beautiful Sloane Macintyre, who's on a mission of her own, looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area. What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo onto the trail of a far more lethal quarry—a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them.

Dead Reckoning

Author : Jeff Dawson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780224885
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Dead Reckoning written by Jeff Dawson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the sinking of the Dunedin Star November 9th, 1942. Amid the cloaking gloom of the Liverpool docks lay the Dunedin Star. A ship of the Blue Star Line, she was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by twenty-one fare-paying civilians escaping the Blitz for the colonies, all forced to take the long haul round the Cape. As an unescorted merchantman sailing U-boat infested waters, Dunedin Star's passage was, at best, a risky undertaking. But her eventual fate was to defy all expectation. Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously holed, Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia's infamous Skeleton Coast - five hundred miles of raging surf and burning desert, the most violent and desolate shore on earth. Sixty-three men, women and children were to defy mountainous waves and unfathomable odds to reach land . . . but their struggle for survival had only just begun. From interviews with survivors, eyewitness testimony, historical resources and personal journals, Dawson skilfully reconstructs the Dunedin Star's doomed voyage, the terror of the wilderness and the painstaking rescue missions. From the grim waters of the North Atlantic to the blistering African wastes, he narrates a classic tale of pluck, set against the backdrop of World War II.

Skeleton Coast

Author : Amy Schoeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869194246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Coast written by Amy Schoeman and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come visit the strange tranquil beauty of the ever-changing landscape and the treacherous coastline of the Skeleton Coast of Namibia with an award-winning photographer.

Skeleton Coast: the Original Story

Author : John Henry Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Coast: the Original Story written by John Henry Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Skeleton Tree

Author : Iain Lawrence
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0307974898
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Skeleton Tree written by Iain Lawrence and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day adventure and classic in the making, in the vein of The Call of the Wild, Hatchet, and The Cay, by award-winning author Iain Lawrence. A Junior Library Guild Selection Less than forty-eight hours after twelve-year-old Chris sets off on a sailing trip down the Alaskan coast with his uncle, their boat sinks. The only survivors are Chris and a boy named Frank, who hates Chris immediately. Chris and Frank have no radio, no flares, no food. Suddenly, they’ve got to forage, fish, and scavenge the shore for supplies. Chris likes the company of a curious, friendly raven more than he likes the prickly Frank. But the boys have to get along if they want to survive. Because as the days get colder and the salmon migration ends, survival will take more than sheer force of will. Eventually, in the wilderness of Alaska, the boys discover an improbable bond—and the compassion that might truly be the path to rescue.

Traversa

Author : Fran Sandham
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 0715645536
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Traversa written by Fran Sandham and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traversa" is a fascinating account of the hardships and hilarity Fran Sandham experienced during his epic solo journey on foot across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean through Namibia, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. Inspired by the legendary crossings of the great explorers, Sandham left the daily grind of London to undertake an extraordinary adventure. "Traversa" describes his brushes with danger in the form of lions and snakes, land mines and bandits, his 2-month battle with a syphilitic donkey, malaria and the everyday troubles that arise when walking across Africa. Underpinned with stories of the great explorers themselves - Livingstone, Stanley and Galton among others - "Traversa" is the written proof of Sandham's grit, determination and sheer obsession with the continent of Africa.

Skeleton Coast

Author : John Henry Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780620087728
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Coast written by John Henry Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reliquaria

Author : R. A. Villanueva
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803276508
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Reliquaria written by R. A. Villanueva and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them. In this remarkable book, we enter the vessel of memory, the vessel of the body. The dead act as witness, the living as chimera, and we learn that whatever the state of the body, this much rings true: every ode is an elegy; each elegy is always an ode.

Skeleton Coast

Author : John H. Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Coast written by John H. Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Old Man and the Sea

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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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.

The Toilers of the Sea

Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Toilers of the Sea written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eternal conflict between the will of man and the power of nature, as expressed by the sea. Contains a realistic and rhapsodical description of the Needles, the pointed rocks in the English Channel, and a man's terrifying fight with an octopus.

A Twist of Sand

Author : Geoffrey Jenkins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781440119965
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book A Twist of Sand written by Geoffrey Jenkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stein saw the white death in front of him and blenched. His face turned a sickly green and he pulled out the Luger. "Get back!" he screamed. "Astern, astern!" He groped madly for the telegraph, pitching John, who was at the wheel, on the plating of the bridge. I was afraid of Stein, but I was scared to death of the sand-bars of the Curva dos Dunas. "You bloody fool!" I shouted. As I spun the wheel back I hit Stein across the face with the back of my left hand and he went reeling to his knees... "The reader reaches the last page panting." -Sunday Times

Skelly the Skeleton Girl

Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416911928
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Skelly the Skeleton Girl written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skelly the skeleton girl finds a bone lying on the floor of her house and wonders where it came from, and when she finally finds the answer she is pleasantly surprised.

Remarkable Creatures

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101152451
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Remarkable Creatures written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling novelist, a stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an impossible man. Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth, a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty, mutual appreciation, and barely suppressed envy, but ultimately turns out to be their greatest asset. From the author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring comes this incredible story of two remarkable women and their voyage of discovery.

The Luminaries

Author : Eleanor Catton
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316126950
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Luminaries written by Eleanor Catton and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.

Skeleton Coast

Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425245713
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Skeleton Coast written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chairman of the Corporation Juan Cabrillo and his mercenary crew steer theOregon into battle against a militant leader and his cult-like followers in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Still smarting from a weapons-trade gone bad and a double-cross, Cabrillo takes action. He manages to save the beautiful Sloane Macintyre, who's on a mission of her own, looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area. What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo onto the trail of a far more lethal quarry—a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them.