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The Men Who Wrecked

Author : Diego C. Salgado
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1946540668
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book The Men Who Wrecked written by Diego C. Salgado and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night under the stars on a beach in L.A., Marco, Sylvester, and Thomas leave their meaningless lives behind to set out on the Pacific Ocean for the Polynesian Islands. Sylvester provides his own sailboat, the Starfish, to realize his dreams as a captain. Marco is fulfilling his prophetic obsession to reach Polynesia, while Thomas just wants to escape his dull life. After a torturous journey, the young men manage to sail to the heart of the Pacific and begin life as free spiritual souls. But sailing aboard a precarious boat brings endless perils as well as constant disagreements between Sylvester and Thomas. After months at sea, the three miraculously catch sight of the islands. Thomas meets a woman on Carolina Island, and abandons his friends on their final leg of the journey. When the Starfish ends up wrecked, the boys must become men, and their character is truly tested. The Men Who Wrecked is a metaphysical parable. As much as a sailing adventure, it’s also a perilous search on the ocean to find oneself.

All They Will Call You

Author : Tim Z. Hernandez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536082
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book All They Will Call You written by Tim Z. Hernandez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the twentieth century, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).” It was an attempt to restore the dignity of the anonymous lives whose unidentified remains were buried in an unmarked mass grave in California’s Central Valley. For nearly seven decades, the song’s message would be carried on by the greatest artists of our time, including Pete Seeger, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez, yet the question posed in Guthrie’s lyrics, “Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?” would remain unanswered—until now. Combining years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling, award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, reconstructing the incident and the lives behind the legendary song. This singularly original account pushes narrative boundaries, while challenging perceptions of what it means to be an immigrant in America, but more importantly, it renders intimate portraits of the individual souls who, despite social status, race, or nationality, shared a common fate one frigid morning in January 1948.

The Man who Wrecked 146 Locomotives

Author : James J. Reisdorff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942035858
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Man who Wrecked 146 Locomotives written by James J. Reisdorff and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wrecked

Author : Heather Henson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442451084
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Wrecked written by Heather Henson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from from different perspectives, almost-seventeen-year-old Miri skips school, rebuilds motorcycles, and befriends her new neighbor Fen to distract herself from knowing exactly what her dad Poe does for a living in the knobs of Kentucky.

Jim Reeves

Author : Larry Jordan
Publisher : JIM REEVES: HIS UNTOLD STORY
ISBN 13 : 0615524303
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Jim Reeves written by Larry Jordan and published by JIM REEVES: HIS UNTOLD STORY. This book was released on 2011 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 672 page, award-winning biography of country music singer Jim Reeves based on hundreds of interviews and Jim's private diaries. Virtually a day by day account of the life of this internationally renowned star.

The Men who Wrought

Author : Ridgwell Cullum
Publisher : London : Chapman & Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Men who Wrought written by Ridgwell Cullum and published by London : Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 1916 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Into the Abyss

Author : Carol Shaben
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307360245
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Into the Abyss written by Carol Shaben and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an icy night in October 1984, a Piper Navajo commuter plane carrying 9 passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing 6 people. Four survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and the criminal he was escorting to face charges. Despite the poor weather, Erik Vogel, the 24-year-old pilot, was under intense pressure to fly--a situation not uncommon to pilots working for small airlines. Overworked and exhausted, he feared losing his job if he refused to fly. Larry Shaben, the author's father and Canada's first Muslim Cabinet Minister, was commuting home after a busy week at the Alberta Legislature. After Paul Archambault, a drifter wanted on an outstanding warrant, boarded the plane, rookie Constable Scott Deschamps decided, against RCMP regulations, to remove his handcuffs--a decision that profoundly impacted the men's survival. As they fought through the night to stay alive, the dividing lines of power, wealth and status were erased and each man was forced to confront the precious and limited nature of his existence. The survivors forged unlikely friendships and through them found strength and courage to rebuild their lives. Into the Abyss is a powerful narrative that combines in-depth reporting with sympathy and grace to explore how a single, tragic event can upset our assumptions and become a catalyst for transformation.

Alive

Author : Piers Paul Read
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504039122
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Alive written by Piers Paul Read and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes. Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October 13, 1972, and at 3:30 p.m., the Fairchild’s pilot reported their altitude at 15,000 feet. But one minute later, the Santiago control tower lost all contact with the aircraft. For eight days, Chileans, Uruguayans, and Argentinians searched for it, but snowfall in the Andes had been heavy, and the odds of locating any wreckage were slim. Ten weeks later, a Chilean peasant in a remote valley noticed two haggard men desperately gesticulating to him from across a river. He threw them a pen and paper, and the note they tossed back read: “I come from a plane that fell in the mountains . . .” Sixteen of the original forty-five passengers on the F-227 survived its horrific crash. In the remote glacial wilderness, they camped in the plane’s fuselage, where they faced freezing temperatures, life-threatening injuries, an avalanche, and imminent starvation. As their meager food supplies ran out, and after they heard on a patched-together radio that the search parties had been called off, it seemed like all hope was lost. To save their own lives, these men and women not only had to keep their faith, they had to make an impossible decision: Should they eat the flesh of their dead friends? A remarkable story of endurance and determination, friendship and the human spirit, Alive is the dramatic bestselling account of one of the most harrowing quests for survival in modern times.

I Had to Survive

Author : Roberto Canessa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476765464
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book I Had to Survive written by Roberto Canessa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Roberto Canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andean Mountains and how, decades later, the harrowing journey to survive propelled him to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists, seeing in his patients the same fierce will to live he witnessed in the Andes. As he tended to his wounded Old Christians teammates amidst the devastating carnage, rugby player Roberto Canessa, a second-year medical student at the time, realized that no one on earth was luckier: he was alive—and for that, he should be eternally grateful. As the starving group struggled beyond the limits of what seemed possible, Canessa played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. No one could have imagined that there were survivors from the accident in such extreme conditions. Canessa's extraordinary experience on the fine line between life and death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope and determination, solidarity and ingenuity, gives vivid insight into the world-famous story that inspired the movie Alive! Canessa also draws a unique and fascinating parallel between his work as a doctor diagnosing very complex congenital cardiopathies in unborn and newborn infants and the difficult life-changing decisions he was forced to make in the Andes. With grace and humanity, Canessa prompts us to ask ourselves: what do you do when all the odds are stacked against you?

Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Miracle in the Andes

Author : Nando Parrado
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 140009769X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miracle in the Andes written by Nando Parrado and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home—now in a special edition for 2022, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the crash, featuring a new introduction by the author “In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given up for dead.”—Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild “In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.” Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to save his friends’ lives as well as his own. Decades after the disaster, Parrado tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling. Miracle in the Andes, a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath, is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure; it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.

Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Bernardino County

Author : G. Pat Macha
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162584090X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Historic Aircraft Wrecks of San Bernardino County written by G. Pat Macha and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weather, darkness and twists of fate have contributed to more than three hundred airplane crashes in San Bernardino County, California. Many of these accidents occurred in the vast Mojave Desert, others on the cloud-shrouded, snow-capped mountains of the largest county in the lower forty-eight states. Searches often were labored yet fruitless, even for the privileged: Frank Sinatra's mother perished here in a downed plane. The quest for an aircraft containing $5,000 in cash has become the stuff of legend. Tales of survival in uninhabited, rugged landscapes have been especially harrowing. Join renowned aircraft-crash search specialist G. Pat Macha for dozens of sorrowful, triumphant, touching and surprising true stories of those who lived through the ordeals of plane crashes--and others who didn't.

Man Failure

Author : Gordon Bond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578929194
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Man Failure written by Gordon Bond and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-fiction account of the February 6, 1951 wreck of the Pennsylvania Railroad trains "The Broker" at Woodbridge, New Jersey.

Tiger in the Sea

Author : Eric Lindner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493031570
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tiger in the Sea written by Eric Lindner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany burst into flames, one by one. Pilot John Murray didn’t have long before the plane crashed headlong into the 20-foot waves at 120 mph. As the four flight attendants donned life vests, collected sharp objects, and explained how to brace for the ferocious impact, 68 passengers clung to their seats: elementary schoolchildren from Hawaii, a teenage newlywed from Germany, a disabled Normandy vet from Cape Cod, an immigrant from Mexico, and 30 recent graduates of the 82nd Airborne’s Jump School. They all expected to die. Murray radioed out “Mayday” as he attempted to fly down through gale-force winds into the rough water, hoping the plane didn’t break apart when it hit the sea. Only a handful of ships could pick up the distress call so far from land. The closest was a Swiss freighter 13 hours away. Dozens of other ships and planes from 9 countries abruptly changed course or scrambled from Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, and Cornwall, all racing to the rescue—but they would take hours, or days, to arrive. From the cockpit, the blackness of the Atlantic grew ever closer. Could Murray do what no pilot had ever done—“land” a commercial airliner at night in a violent sea without everyone dying? And if he did, would rescuers find any survivors before they drowned or died from hypothermia in the icy water? The fate of Flying Tiger 923 riveted the world. Bulletins interrupted radio and TV programs. Headlines shouted off newspapers from London to LA. Frantic family members overwhelmed telephone switchboards. President Kennedy took a break from the brewing crises in Cuba and Mississippi to ask for hourly updates. Tiger in the Sea is a gripping tale of triumph, tragedy, unparalleled airmanship, and incredibly brave people from all walks of life. The author has pieced together the story—long hidden because of murky Cold War politics—through exhaustive research and reconstructed a true and inspiring tribute to the virtues of outside-the-box-thinking, teamwork, and hope.

Old Man Quill Vol. 1

Author : Ethan Sacks
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302514547
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Old Man Quill Vol. 1 written by Ethan Sacks and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Old Man Quill #1-6. Peter Quill finally grew up. He used to be Star-Lord, but it's been some time since he's gone by that name. Taking over for his father as the emperor of Spartax, Quill put a life of spacefaring adventure behind him for one of leadership and responsibility. But things didn't go as planned. Decades have passed, and Peter is haunted by tragedy. Down and out, his existence means nothing - until the former Guardians of the Galaxy drag him out of his funk for one last mission! The heist of a lifetime - and Quill's harrowing last shot at redemption - takes him back to a transformed Earth. But the Wastelands are a dangerous place, with Gladiator and the Universal Church of Truth closing in! And the shadow of Doom hangs over the Guardians' every move.

Wrecked by the Masked Man

Author : Rose Rough
Publisher : Wet Kitty Purr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wrecked by the Masked Man written by Rose Rough and published by Wet Kitty Purr. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her house is invaded by a masked man, Anna must submit to his wicked desires. But what will happen when she discovers the darkness within herself and begins to crave submission? What would happen if she goes out into the dark night looking for it...begging for it? Dubcon, Dubious Consent, Taboo, Hardcore, Rough Sex, Forced Submission Sex, Ganged, Gangbang, Gangbanged, Group Sex, Multiple partner erotica, Age gap, Age difference, older man younger woman, forbidden, erotica short stories, short sex stories, free use sex, free use, foursome

The Fishermen's Own Book, Comprising the List of Men and Vessels Lost from the Port of Gloucester, Mass. Form 1874 to April 1. 1882

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385416264
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book The Fishermen's Own Book, Comprising the List of Men and Vessels Lost from the Port of Gloucester, Mass. Form 1874 to April 1. 1882 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.