Author : Stephanie True Peters
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1434204448
On April 10, 1912, fourteen-year-old Christopher Watkins boards the Titanic with his mother and little brother. They are sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to meet his father in the United States. Suudenly, the giant ship strikes and iceberg and the unthinkable happens. The grandest ship ever built begins to sink! Christopher must quickly become the man of the family and find a way to keep them safe.
Author : Stephanie Peters
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN :
On April 10, 1912, fourteen-year-old Christopher Watkins boards the Titanic with his family. While sailing across the Atlantic, the giant ship strikes an iceberg and begins to sink! Christopher must quickly find a way to save his family.
Author : James K. Barnett
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874223576
Maritime historian James K. Barnett discovered extraordinary journals and paintings of Captain James Cook's demanding final voyage languishing in Australian archives. Expedition artist John Webber and two young officers"Discovery" first lieutenant James Burney, and "Resolution" Master's Mate Henry Roberts--offer remarkable eyewitness accounts of initial European contact, the first reasonably accurate maps of North America's west coast, the earliest comprehensive report from the Bering Sea ice pack, and portrayals of the celebrated mariner's dramatic death at Kealakekua Bay. Particularly astonishing for depictions of landings along Hawaii, Vancouver Island, and Alaska, Barnett adds context and commentary to complete the story.
Author : Philip Chien
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 038727149X
In ‘Columbia: Final Voyage’ aerospace writer Philip Chien, who has over 20 years’ experience covering the US space program, provides a unique insight into the crew members who lost their lives in the Columbia disaster. Chien interviewed all seven crew members several times and got to know them as individuals. He reviews in detail their training, their scientific work and other activities during their successful 16-day flight, the background of the accident itself and a detailed first-hand account of what happened that fateful day in February 2003. The author provides a comprehensive and personal look at both the Columbia astronauts and the STS-107 mission, together with a behind-the-scenes account of other people involved in the mission and their personal reactions to the accident. Forward by Jonathan B. Clark, widower of Columbia astronaut Laurel Clark Introduction by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin
Author : John Ledyard
Publisher : National Geographic
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Ledyard's Siberian journals recount a harrowing journey through Russia under the rule of Catherine the Great, while his diary from Alexandria and Cairo provides a brilliant and rare account of Egypt before Napoleon's invasion. Finally, Ledyard's correspondence sheds light on pre-revolutionary Paris and on his friendships with the Marquis de Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Joseph Banks. In his short life, John Ledyard traveled farther than any American had before."--Jacket.
Author : Donald R. Foxvog
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : History
ISBN :
A fierce North Atlantic storm separated the ship from its protective escorts, and alone, the ship fell victim to the Germans."--Jacket.
Author : Peter Nichols
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780399156021
In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an Arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oil.
Author : Philippe Godard
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Merchant ships
ISBN : 9780646105192
Author : Douglas Robertson
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Shipwreck survival
ISBN : 1574092065
Douglas Robertson spent his first 16 years as a farmer's son in England before sailing with his family on their 43-foot schooner Lucette.
Author : Ed Brandt
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Pueblo Incident, 1968
ISBN :
A composite documentary by fifteen crew members of the USS Pueblo after eleven brutal months of imprisonment by the North Koreans.
