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Book Synopsis The Sea Captain's Wife by : Beth Powning
Download or read book The Sea Captain's Wife written by Beth Powning and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping novel of love and adventure on the high seas that introduces an unforgettable young heroine. Growing up on the Bay of Fundy in the 1860s, Azuba Galloway is determined to escape the confines of her town and live at sea. When she captures the heart of Captain Nathaniel Bradstock, she is sure her dreams are about to be realized, only to have pregnancy intervene. But when Azuba becomes embroiled in a scandal, Nathaniel must bring his young family abroad to save his reputation. Azuba gets her wish, but at what price? Alone in a male world, and juggling the splendor of foreign ports with the terror of the open seas, Azuba must fight to keep her family together. Blending the high-tension drama of missed chances and unexpected twists of the sort that made A Reliable Wife a bestseller with the pluck and spirit of a heroine in the vein of Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Sea Captain's Wife will captivate readers and critics alike.
Book Synopsis The Seagull and the Sea Captain by : Sy Montgomery
Download or read book The Seagull and the Sea Captain written by Sy Montgomery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a quiet harbor in New England, a sea captain named Ellis is visited by a seagull. By the end of the week the seagull had retuned and was eating crackers out of the captain's hand. They continued their friendship the entire season and the next year in the spring the gull retuned. After four years of friendship, the wild seagull named Polly still visits. This unlikely story of a wild bird and a friendly sea captain reminds us how we are all connected"--
Book Synopsis Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by : Edward Ardizzone
Download or read book Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain written by Edward Ardizzone and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the adventures of a stowaway boy, including his friendship with captain and crew and near shipwreck during a violent storm.
Book Synopsis Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife by : Margaret Holden Eaton
Download or read book Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife written by Margaret Holden Eaton and published by McNally & Loftin Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sea Captain's Odyssey by : Marvin Dale Shepherd
Download or read book The Sea Captain's Odyssey written by Marvin Dale Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1838, 16-year-old Hans Buhne sailed from his home in Flensburg, Denmark, and began his first adventure as a cabin boy on a whaling ship. He sailed for 11 years before arriving in San Francisco during the gold rush of '49. He later became famous for his adventures as a Humboldt Bar pilot, and bought a chandlery store, a lumber mill, and developed several, thousand-acre ranches.
Download or read book Before the Wind written by Charles Tyng and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Tyng's quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times at the begining of the nineteenth century. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor. Before the Wind has been hailed as a superb contribution to seafaring literature, alongside such books as Two Years Before the Mast and the novels of Patrick O'Brian. Both Tyng's life and the way he recounts his years at sea are full of wonder: He survives shipwrecks, squalls, and pirates. He makes and loses fortunes in tea, sugar, and cotton. He meets Lord Byron as well as the British princess (later queen) Victoria. Sailors, armchair travelers, history buffs, and lovers of pulse-quickening maritime stories will find this book as seductive as the siren song of the sea.
Book Synopsis The Sea Captain's Wife by : Martha Elizabeth Hodes
Download or read book The Sea Captain's Wife written by Martha Elizabeth Hodes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What a terrific book! I could hardly put it down... A story of triumph over adversity."--James McPherson. Award-winning historian Hodes presents the true, extraordinary story of Eunice Connolly, a woman whose misfortune and defiance make up the grand themes of American history--opportunity and racism, war and freedom.
Download or read book Plastic Ocean written by Charles Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The researcher who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—and remains one of today's key advocates for plastic pollution awareness—inspires a fundamental rethinking of the modern Plastic Age. In 1997, environmentalist Charles Moore discovered the world's largest collection of floating trash—the Great Pacific Garbage Patch ("GPGP")—while sailing from Hawaii to California. Moore was shocked by the level of pollution that he saw. And in the last 20 years, it's only gotten worse—a 2018 study has found that the vast dump of plastic waste swirling in the Pacific Ocean is now bigger than France, Germany, and Spain combined—far larger than previously feared. In Plastic Ocean, Moore recounts his ominous findings and unveils the secret life of plastics. From milk jugs and abandoned fishing gear to polymer molecules small enough to penetrate human skin and be unknowingly inhaled, plastic is now suspected of contributing to a host of ailments, including infertility, autism, thyroid dysfunction, and certain cancers. An urgent call to action, Plastic Ocean's sobering revalations have been embraced by activists, concerned parents, and anyone alarmed by the deadly impact and implications of this man-made environmental catastrophe.
Download or read book Seized! written by Max Hardberger and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outpirating the pirates with one of the most interesting men alive: Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok. His adventures in rescuing ships pit him against a rogue's gallery of antagonists, including Haitian rebels, modern-day Caribbean pirates and Russian mobsters. • Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed expose of the seedy underworld of international shipping. As a professional ship extractor, he risks death and imprisonment in dangerous third-world ports to steal ships from modern buccaneers and corrupt governments and deliver them back to their rightful owners. In the course of his adventures, he's had to outwit resourceful crime families, subdue armed soldiers, and turn the tables on clever con artists. He's escaped imprisonment in Venezuela and avoided death at the hands of the Russian mafia. Because Max shuns the use of force, the ingenious methods he must use to accomplish his missions are the stuff of legend he's employed a witch doctor in Haiti, tricked armed guards off a ship in Honduras, and rented a brothel in Mexico, all to thwart the designs of ship-thieves. Seized! is an intense, fast-paced window on the underbelly of ocean shipping, where all power comes from the barrel of a gun, and the only law is the law of survival. -- "Max Hardberger, maritime repo man extraordinaire ... Using a combination of ingenuity, stealth and good old-fashioned derring-do, he has made his name retaking vessels which have been hijacked or which, through local corruption, are impounded by authorities hungry for bribes." • -- Sunday Express • "With most people, the longer you spend talking to them, the more normal they appear. With Hardberger, the reverse applies. Just when you think you've heard it all, he comes up with something wilder ... Over the years, he's distracted crews with prostitutes and witch doctors, bribed officials to look the other way, conned Russian mobsters and hidden from naval radar by riding out thunderstorms at sea; he's even taken a 10,000-tonne freighter out of Haiti while the 2004 revolution was going on around him." • -- Guardian • "Required reading, fascinating. Maritime Repo Man Hardberger does it tough; his life is flown by the seat of his pants, or shipped, much like his profession ... This book delivers." • -- Paul Carter, bestselling author of Don't Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs and This Is Not A Drill • "In this heart-stopping account of his work recovering stolen (or otherwise illegally-seized) ships from 'hellhole' ports, commercial captain Hardberger proves himself tough as a tank and articulate as a poet ... [He] has a seafarer's gift for atmospheric storytelling, layering details to create a sense of place, history, and foreboding ... Hardberger's escapades make undeniably fun reading." • -- Publishers Weekly • "One of the strengths of Hardberger's book is his prose, which is lucid, entertaining and dramatic." • -- Daniel Sekulich, author of Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern Day Pirates
Book Synopsis Captain Herman Leopold Schück by : Michael Schück Montemayor
Download or read book Captain Herman Leopold Schück written by Michael Schück Montemayor and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Germany as an empire in 1872 and the weakening of the Sultanate of Sulu and Spain converged in Jolo through the friendship of Captain Herman Leopold Schuck, an adventurous German sea captain and Jamalul Alam, the famous sultan of Sulu. This work chronicles that friendship as it to seeks to better understand how a Prussian from Upper Silesia, steeped in Germanic culture and driven by a lucrative trading relationship with the sultan, developed a fascination with Tausug culture.
Book Synopsis Running Against the Tide by : Captain Lee
Download or read book Running Against the Tide written by Captain Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the star of Bravo’s hit reality show Below Deck comes Running Against the Tide, the “Stud of the Sea’s” first-ever memoir recounting his journey from landlocked Saginaw, Michigan to the high seas, where he has spent more than twenty-five years as a superyacht captain. The cast members of Below Deck are known for their catfights, scheming, personal attacks, and long-held grudges, but what keeps viewers coming back week after week is resident hero Captain Lee, the only cast member to appear in all five seasons. But you don’t have to be one of Below Deck’s 1.5 million weekly viewers to appreciate Captain Lee’s story, which offers a glimpse behind-the-scenes at the luxury yachting industry and one of Bravo’s biggest franchises. From having to reclaim his drunk captain's lost papers in the Dominican Republic to unwittingly crewing a drug boat out of Turks and Caicos to navigating the outrageous demands of the super-rich in New York City, Captain Lee's tales from the high seas run the gamut, proving time and time again why he’s a fan favorite: he’s occasionally profane, he’s often surprising, but he’s never dull and, for the first time, he’s here to tell all.
Book Synopsis Captain Jenny & the Sea of Wonders by : Duncan Thornton
Download or read book Captain Jenny & the Sea of Wonders written by Duncan Thornton and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Captain Jenny and her crew search the Sea of Wonders for the Lost City, and on the way they encounter danger and adventure.
Download or read book Call Me Captain written by Susan Scott and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and marine biologist Susan Scott had an enviable existence—a home in Hawai‘i, a prized 37-foot sailboat and exciting international adventures, all shared with her physician husband Craig in a marriage so intimate they called it the “Twinship.” Yet, when her menopausal hormones raged and Craig grew preoccupied with Ironman triathlon training, this perfect life ended. Once blessed with well-being, love, humor, and sharing, the Twinship exploded with fights, silence, accusations, and failed counseling. Shell-shocked, Susan sought solace in the one thing that always gave her joy: marine wildlife. She overhauled the couple’s neglected boat and, with a male friend nearly half her age, sailed away. Except it wasn’t that easy; Susan had always relied on Craig to make the sailing decisions and Alex, her young first mate, was a sailing novice. Call Me Captain follows Susan as she leaves everything behind—or tries to— and sails to spectacular but isolated Palmyra Atoll to work as a volunteer biologist. Susan helps rescue baby sea turtles, bands seabirds, and corrals ten-pound coconut crabs that look like Godzillas with knife-blade claws. She determinedly repairs her sailboat, skippers it through terrifying storms, and to her surprise, finds she and Craig are falling in love all over again. This time the two rediscover one another via satellite phone—Susan calling from her tiny floating speck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to Craig in his hospital emergency room on Oahu. Susan writes with passion about swimming with manta rays, kayaking with sharks, and sailing with whales and dolphins. In those passages, she shows ways these magnificent animals guided her through the journey of a lifetime. Her memoir of self-discovery is a romance, a rousing sea tale, and a personal account of nature’s power to put life in perspective.
Download or read book Titanic Hero written by Arthur H. Rostron and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Titanic in the words of the hero whose swift action saved the lives of 710 survivors.
Book Synopsis A Captain's Duty by : Richard Phillips
Download or read book A Captain's Duty written by Richard Phillips and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans." --President Barack Obama It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, the United States-flagged cargo ship which was carrying, among other things, food and agricultural materials for the World Food Program. That all changed when armed Somali pirates boarded the ship. The pirates didn't expect the crew to fight back, nor did they expect Captain Phillips to offer himself as hostage in exchange for the safety of his crew. Thus began the tense five-day stand-off, which ended in a daring high-seas rescue when U.S. Navy SEALs opened fire and picked off three of the captors. "It never ends like this," Captain Phillips said. And he's right. A Captain's Duty tells the life-and-death drama of the Vermont native who was held captive on a tiny lifeboat off Somalia's anarchic, gun-plagued shores. A story of adventure and courage, it provides the intimate details of this high-seas hostage-taking--the unbearable heat, the death threats, the mock executions, and the escape attempt. When the pirates boarded his ship, Captain Phillips put his experience into action, doing everything he could to safeguard his crew. And when he was held captive by the pirates, he marshaled all his resources to ensure his own survival, withstanding intense physical hardship and an escalating battle of wills with the pirates. This was it: the moment where training meets instinct and where character is everything. Richard Phillips was ready.
Book Synopsis The Socialite and the Sea Captain by : David Hirzel
Download or read book The Socialite and the Sea Captain written by David Hirzel and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic explorer Louise Arner Boyd, working in conjunction with the United States Bureau of Standards, embarked June 11, 1941 on a polar research voyage in the legendary schooner Effie M. Morrissey with Captain, owner, and Arctic explorer in his own right, Bob Bartlett commanding. Although the United States was not yet a combatant in the war then raging throughout Europe, by the beginning of 1941 it had become clear that such neutrality would not last much longer, and that when the time came for the U.S. to enter the war, it would be on the side of the Allies.Greenland, a protectorate of Denmark, lost that status when Germany overran the home country. Unprotected, it could provide the Nazis with an operating base in North America. Boyd's long history of leading surveying, scientific, and photographic expeditions to the East coast of Greenland meant that another expedition under her leadership, to the West coast/Baffin Bay side of that island, would arouse little notice. She arranged a charter of the ice schooner Effie M. Morrissey, from departure June 11 through November 3, returning with valuable data, during which she kept a journal of her daily activities on board and her photographic and scientific work ashore. Bartlett and the ship's officers likewise kept a detailed daily log. It provides a marked contrast to Miss Boyd's narrative.Both were passionately interested in polar exploration, so joint venture, in conjunction with a quasi-military purpose seemed imminently prosperous. However, over the three months of the effort, relations between the two soured irrevocably. Each felt an indisputable right to be leader of the expedition. Neither was willing to give ground. The underlying tension reveals itself occasionally in her diary, and in the elaborately worded ship's log held in Special Collections at Bowdoin College Library. Given the differences between their social statuses, they each find much to comment on. The Socialite and the Sea Captain presents these two conflicting narratives side by side, so readers can compare the accounts and determine for themselves the underlying story behind the diaries of these two headstrong leaders.
Book Synopsis Whittling the Old Sea Captain, Revised Edition by : Mike Shipley
Download or read book Whittling the Old Sea Captain, Revised Edition written by Mike Shipley and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step instructions and over 100 how-to photos show you how to whittle, paint, and stain the salty Old Sea Captain and his first and second mates. Carving patterns are included for making caricatures, buoys, lobster traps, and wooden crates to set an entire sea-faring scene!
