Sailing Into The Abyss

Author : William Benedetto
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806526461
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Into the Abyss written by William Benedetto and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using eyewitness accounts, official documents, and rarely seen photos, Sailing Into the Abyss takes a fascinating look at the human drama behind the deadliest sea disaster of the Vietnam War. 8-page photo insert.

Author : Bridget Lane
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494894283
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Into the Abyss written by Bridget Lane and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing Into the AbyssLARGE PRINT EDITION This is a life-changing true story of drug-running across the Pacific. A young girl with a passion for sailing gets approached to transport an illegal cargo from Colombia to the US. She battles with storms, snakes, and interminable days at sea, in Great White Shark infested waters before finally being intercepted by a Mexican gunboat. Her subsequent incarceration in Mexico's most infamous prison, La Mesa, is almost more surprising: the treatment she receives and the people she meets become a transformative experience, as she recounts in this totally compelling personal journey. This is truly an extraordinary adventure story of a remarkable young woman operating in a man's world

Author : Makiia Lucier
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0544968581
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of the Abyss written by Makiia Lucier and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When men start vanishing at sea without a trace, seventeen-year-old Reyna, a Master Explorer, must travel to a country shrouded in secrets to solve the mystery before it is too late.

Author : Constance M. Jerlecki
Publisher : Inland Expressions
ISBN 13 : 1939150183
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Into Disaster written by Constance M. Jerlecki and published by Inland Expressions. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most prominent geographical features of North America, the Great Lakes played a pivotal role in the economic and industrial development of Canada and the United States. While allowing the establishment of a highly efficient transportation system, these freshwater seas have also proven particularly unforgiving when stirred up by the forces of nature. Capable of producing some of the most treacherous conditions faced by mariners anywhere on the globe, the Great Lakes have claimed thousands of vessels since the earliest days of navigation on their waters. Sailing Into Disaster details the stories of ten vessels that met their demise without leaving a single survivor. Ranging from early wooden schooners to steel steamships, the tales included in this volume represent not only the perils faced by these vessels but also their crews prior to the advent of modern navigation equipment. While a few of their number have been uncovered through concerted search efforts, the majority of these lost ships remain elusively hidden in the watery depths of these landlocked oceans. Among others, this book includes the loss of an early Great Lakes schooner on Lake Superior, the mysterious disappearance of a steel steamer that sparked tales of it becoming a wandering ghost ship, the unexplained sinking of two naval trawlers, a small tugboat that sailed into oblivion on Lake Erie, and a self-unloading bulk carrier that remains missing in the depths of Lake Michigan to this very day. A lifelong resident of Michigan, Constance M. Jerlecki has written four books concerning the history of the state she calls home. This is her first book on Great Lakes shipwrecks.

Author : Tiffany Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781961376014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure of the Abyss (The Kraken #1) written by Tiffany Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIS TREASURE AND HIS OBSESSION...Despite her longing for the sea, Macy has clung to the safety of land for half her life, devoting herself to her daily routine - until she agrees to go sailing with a childhood friend. Her fears come to fruition when a sudden storm capsizes their boat, rekindling her old terror. She awakens to a rescuer who is anything but human - and he refuses to let her go. Treated like a curiosity and a possession, she's desperate to go home. Yet Macy is undeniably drawn to this strange creature. Can she give up her old life, her family and friends, to embrace this adventure?and Jax?HER SAVIOR AND HER CAPTOR...Jax the Wanderer is a hunter, an explorer, and an oddity among his kind. While other kraken are content near their dens, Jax is driven by a deep need to journey far and wide, discovering the unknown corners of the sea. Macy challenges everything he's known; she is the most alluring creature he's ever seen on his travels. He must possess her, though he knows it can only end in disaster. How much is he willing to forsake for the female he desires?

Author : Gregory Benford
Publisher : Aspect
ISBN 13 : 0446511285
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Bright Eternity written by Gregory Benford and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, special edition of the classic concluding volume of this defining series by the eminent physicist and Nebula Award-winning author contains a teaser chapter from Benford's, The Sunborn. The final chapter of humanity's future has begun, and three men hold the key to survival. As the fierce, artificially intelligent mechs pursue their savage and unstoppable destruction of the human race, it soon becomes apparent that three men-three generations in a family of voyagers-are their targets. Toby Bishop, his father Kileen, and his longdead grandfather each carry a piece of the lethal secret that can destroy their relentless pursuers. There is only one problem: They have no idea they possess the only weapon that can save humanity.

Author : Lawrence Fields
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595229697
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reciting Poetry in the Dark written by Lawrence Fields and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bethany Adams
Publisher : Bethany Adams
ISBN 13 : 0997532092
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abyss written by Bethany Adams and published by Bethany Adams. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mage out of her element After five hundred years as a magic teacher, Selia thought she’d seen everything. But nothing prepared her for the chaos of her assignment at Braelyn. Assassins, rogue princes, and a grown, half-human student—all had caught her off guard. Now, things have settled down, and her life has begun to take on a sense of normalcy. Until her seemingly dead husband reappears astride a dragon with a dire warning about Earth. An adventurer far from home For seven years, Aris was held captive on the isle of dragons, hidden so well that only his captor knew of his presence. But when a dragon claims him as her rider and flies him away on an urgent mission, Aris isn’t certain he wants to return home. Tortured and scarred, not even thoughts of his lost family renew his desire for life. Unfortunately, death isn’t on the table—not with danger threatening multiple worlds. A widening abyss Life might have settled on Moranaia after Prince Kien’s death, but the rogue prince hasn’t gone to his death as quietly as his people believed. As poison seeps into a crack in Earth’s energy field, a greater catastrophe looms. Now a dragon, a broken adventurer, and an uncertain mage are the only ones who stand in the way of disaster.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220133
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of the Desert written by Thomas Merton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1970-01-17 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wisdom of the Desert was one of Thomas Merton's favorites among his own books—surely because he had hoped to spend his last years as a hermit. The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East. The hermits of Screte who turned their backs on a corrupt society remarkably like our own had much in common with the Zen masters of China and Japan, and Father Merton made his selection from them with an eye to the kind of impact produced by the Zen mondo.

Author : Tissa Abeysekara
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556437571
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Tony Home written by Tissa Abeysekara and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1940s and 1960s, Bringing Tony Home is a masterful modern example of a timeless genre, the bildungsroman. In the title novella, a boy returns to his old home to find Tony, his beloved dog who was abandoned when economic circumstances forced the family to leave. “Bringing Tony Home” recounts this perilous journey in detail, movingly tracing the boy’s rescue attempts and his spiraling emotions as he endures changes occurring in his family. In “Elsewhere: Something Like a Love Story,” a young boy finds forbidden love with a schoolmate scorned for her poverty. “Elsewhere” continues their saga, touching on the bittersweet memories they share as adults, and on the woman’s increasingly precarious place in a society concerned only with status. The other stories, “Poor Young Man: A Requiem” and “Hark, The Moaning Pond: A Grandmother’s Tale,” delve into a young man’s relationship with his father as the latter’s fortunes fade, and into the now-mature man’s attempts to come to grips with the death of his grandmother and what she symbolized. Abeysekara’s ability to evoke the sights and sounds of another time and place, and his skill in rendering the inner lives of his characters, make Bringing Tony Home a remarkable read.