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Author
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks...
Author
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
MT. MCKINLEY, ALASKA 1932
From the south peak, a hundred thousand square miles of Alaskan wilderness stretched out before his eyes.
This was America's last land frontier. It was the land Grant Pearson had dreamed of as a boy and lived in, full, as a man, when he came to be known as one of Alaska's most famous 20th century pioneers. This was how to choose to live his LIFE OF HIGH ADVENTURE…
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five hundred years before modern air travel the ancient Chinese had learned the complicated principles of fluid and aerodynamics. Travel half way around the world to China where the notion of 'hard air' (air pressure) was understood by Taoist monks.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1942
Language
English
Description
More than 80 years ago, Caroline Mytinger, a portrait artist, and her childhood friend Margaret Warner set out by freighter from San Francisco with little more than $400 in their pocket and a tin of paints to their name. Their objective was to paint portraits of the tribal people of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands before the encroachment of modern, European-style culture changed their lives forever. This gripping book tells of the two women's...
166) The mercy
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor competes in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping. With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2004, c2002
Language
English
Description
When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious "graveyard of ships," Cape Horn.
A century later, Derek Lundy, author of the bestselling Godforsaken Sea and an accomplished amateur seaman himself, set out to recount his forebear's...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Sinbad, the most daring and notorious rogue ever to sail the seven seas, has spent his life asking for trouble, and trouble has finally answered in a big way. Framed for stealing one of the world's most priceless and powerful treasures--the Book of Peace--Sinbad has one chance to find and return the precious book, or his best friend Proteus will die
Author
Series
Moonlight Bay volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An unexpected inheritance and the chance to meet relatives she never knew existed has Jenna Fossey heading to the charming little town of Magnolia Harbor. But long-buried family secrets lead to even more questions, and the only person who can help her find the answers is her sexy-as-sin sailing instructor"--
An unexpected inheritance and the chance to meet relatives she never knew existed has Jenna Fossey heading to the charming little town of Magnolia...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lemuel Gulliver always dreamed of sailing across the seas, but he never could have imagined the places his travels would take him. His adventures could be the greatest tales ever told, if he survives to tell them
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The sinking of the White Ship on the 25th November 1120 is one of the greatest disasters that England has ever suffered. Its repercussions would change English and European history for ever. King Henry I was sailing for England in triumph after four years of fighting the French. Congregating with the king at the port of Barfleur on that freezing night was the cream of Anglo-Norman society, including the only legitimate heir to the throne. By 1120,...
Author
Publisher
PlayMonster
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Immerse yourself in a world of valor, innovation, cunning and strategy on your journey to master the skies. On the gaseous planet of Celus, valuable gas keeps everything afloat in the skies. Without it, the city and its citizen would plummet into the scaling hot core of the planet. The only usable source of this gas is found within Cresters, the monstrous flying beasts that control the skies of Celus. As captain of a ship, you must hunt these vicious...
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