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The Lost Sailors

Author : Jean-Claude Izzo

Publisher : Europa Editions UK

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 50,74 MB

Release : 2013-03-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1609451716

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From one of France's best-known authors comes this evocative meditation on the human comedy. A freighter is impounded in the port of Marseilles when its owners declare bankruptcy. On board, the men are divided: wait for the money owed them—money that might never come—or accept their fate and abandon ship? This may be Captain Abdul Aziz's last commission and he is determined to save his charge and stand by his men. Diamantis, his second-in-command, is in search of a woman he has never stopped loving and who may now be living in Marseilles. In these close quarters charged with physical and emotional tension, each of these marooned sailors' life stories begins to resemble a chapter in the complex, colorful, and tragic story of the Mediterranean Sea itself—rich with romance, legend, passion and drama. The Lost Sailors is a richly textured and bittersweet tribute to Mediterranean life. It is the novel in which Jean-Claude Izzo most completely expresses his vision of human history and how it has been played out on the shores of this sea since the beginnings of time. This is a novel for anyone who loves the sea, for anyone who is attracted to the dark passions it can provoke, for anyone who feels drawn to the rich blend of races, religions and individual stories to be found in port cities the world over. It is, at the same time, a story of the prodigious forces at play in all human destiny.



Ilvie Little and the Fearless Sailors

Author : Susanne Stemmer

Publisher : Ilvie Little & Friends GmbH

Page : 205 pages

File Size : 44,91 MB

Release : 2021-12-09

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 3903490040

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Ilvie Little, the curious elf, has had enough of the beautiful but boring land of the elves and decides to discover the big, wide world.Together with her friends, a cook, and two twinkling companionsthe grumpy dog Sammy and the gluttonous monkey Theoshe wants to solve an ancient riddle.To do this, she must polish up a dusty old ship and go on the search for a lost treasure, withstanding any and all resistance along the way. But the fearless friends conquer all danger.A magical story for strong kids and those who want to become stronga fantastic, courage-inspiring book for reading out loud and reading yourself. For cool kids from 5-99.



The Lost Sailors

Author : Jean-Claude Izzo

Publisher :

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 22,10 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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"Izzo digs deep into what makes men weep."- Time Out New York In this moving investigation into the human comedy, the men aboard an impounded freighter in the port of Marseilles are divided: Wait for the money owed them, or accept their fate and abandon ship? Captain Abdul Aziz is determined to save his charge and do the right thing by his men. In these close quarters charged with physical and emotional tension, each life begins to resemble a chapter in the complex, colorful, and tragic story of the Mediterranean Sea itself-rich with romance, legend, passion, and drama.



438 Days

Author : Jonathan Franklin

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 288 pages

File Size : 48,12 MB

Release : 2015-11-17

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1501116290

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The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.



Pirates, Ships, and Sailors

Author : Kathryn Jackson

Publisher : Golden Books

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 13,40 MB

Release : 2012-06-27

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0307983188

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Ahoy! First published in 1950, Golden Books is pleased to reissue this delightful hardcover collection of 24 stories and poems, including Pirate’s Cove, The Little Lost Island, and The Careful, Cheerful Sailor by Kathyrn and Byron Jackson. All sea-loving children—and their parents—will be wowed by Gustaf Tenggren’s beautiful illustrations.



Tin Can Sailor

Author : C. Raymond Calhoun

Publisher : US Naval Institute Press

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 49,71 MB

Release : 1993

Category : History

ISBN :

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More than 800 sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943.



Sunk Without Trace

Author : Paul Gelder

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 42,16 MB

Release : 2010-05-15

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1408112086

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Total Loss has been on the Adlard Coles list for 23 years, and in March this year we published a new edition in B format with a 'thriller' look. In two months it has sold 886 copies. There was a lot of unused material left over from it, plus some new total loss stories of yachts sunk, which have happened since the book went to press. I'd like to get the author working on a follow-up volume asap (he's a journalist and takes ages to deliver - deadlines etc). We'd repeat the formula: thriller look, low-priced impulse buy.



A Sailor's Story

Author : Sam Glanzman

Publisher : Courier Dover Publications

Page : 177 pages

File Size : 17,10 MB

Release : 2015-04-15

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 0486798127

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"An unabridged republication of the following works originally published by Marvel Comics, New York: A Sailor's Story (1987) and A Sailor's Story, Book Two: Winds, Dreams, and Dragons (1989)"--Title page verso.



The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Author : Yukio Mishima

Publisher : Random House

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 21,40 MB

Release : 2010-01-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1407054112

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A tale of youth and warped masculinity, this is the suspenseful, lyrical and page-turning Japanese classic. A band of thirteen-year-old boys reject the stupidity of the adult world. They decide it is illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ‘objectivity’. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship’s officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first, but it is not long before they conclude that he is, in fact, soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part – and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying. ‘A page turning novel... A timeless classic’ Independent ‘Mishima’s greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century’ The Times TRANSLATED BY JOHN NATHAN



Adrift

Author : Steven Callahan

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 19,93 MB

Release : 2002-10-17

Category : Travel

ISBN : 0547526563

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Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.