True Sea Stories (Usa)
Author : Random House
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 1997-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780099820734
True Sea Stories
Author : Mustard
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Sea stories
ISBN : 9780752528304
Book Description
True Sea Stories
Author : Henry Brook
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Marine accidents
ISBN : 9780439795630
Book Description
Ten true stories of maritime adventure explore the incredible lure of the world's oceans.
The True Sea
Author : F. W. Belland
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
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Sea Stories
Author : Gary Slaughter
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780974420660
Book Description
Sea Stories: Memoir of a Naval Officer (1956-1967) spans Slaughter's naval service during the Cold War. Over 60 vignettes depict the danger of Navy life over the course of his naval career.
Sea Stories
Author : Admiral William H. McRaven
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1538729725
Book Description
Following the success of his #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your Bed, which has sold over one million copies, Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism during his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces. Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Sea Stories begins in 1963 at a French Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II-the place where a young Bill McRaven learned the value of a good story. Sea Stories is an unforgettable look back on one man's incredible life, from childhood days sneaking into high-security military sites to a day job of hunting terrorists and rescuing hostages. Action-packed, humorous, and full of valuable life lessons like those exemplified in McRaven's bestselling Make Your Bed, Sea Stories is a remarkable memoir from one of America's most accomplished leaders.
Sea Stories
Author : Captain Richard Metz
Publisher : Adventure Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1591937604
Book Description
Captain Metz was a Great Lakes captain for 30 years. He experienced wild weather, close calls, near misses, and events that can only be described as “unimaginable.” He has incredible sea stories to tell, and now they are yours to enjoy. Take an entertaining look at life aboard a variety of Great Lakes ships. Read the triumphs, the struggles, and the secrets of a captain’s life in 30 compelling true tales. Plus, you’ll be fascinated by the histories and full-color photographs of the ships themselves, as well as a few amazing stories of wreck diving and ships that didn’t make it. If you’re a history buff, a Great Lakes enthusiast, a ship watcher, or a fan of a good yarn, Sea Stories is for you!
438 Days
Author : Jonathan Franklin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501116290
Book Description
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.
After the Storm
Author : John Rousmaniere
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2002-04-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780071377959
Book Description
An exploration of loss and survival by one of America's finest nautical writers After the Storm is John Rousmaniere's most ambitious work ever, the unique expression of a master storyteller and authority on seamanship who has survived storms at sea. Each of the book's stories of seafaring disastermany little known, all exciting and of deep human interestpresents a broad human drama. Rousmaniere tells of the hopes and choices that put these sailors in harm's way. He takes readers into the gales themselves with authoritative knowledge of horrific weather and the split-second decisions that seamen must make. Finally, he explores the consequences of these disasters for survivors, rescuers, families, communities, and in some cases nations. The pursuit of these elusive strands leads the reader deep into our ambivalent relationship with the sea as both "destroyer and preserver."
Indianapolis
Author : Lynn Vincent
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1501135953
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” —USA TODAY * “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” —Christian Science Monitor * “ENTHRALLING.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * “A MUST-READ.” —Booklist (starred review) A human drama unlike any other—the riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history. Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, nearly nine hundred men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. For the first time Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own in “a wonderful book…that features grievous mistakes, extraordinary courage, unimaginable horror, and a cover-up…as complete an account of this tragic tale as we are likely to have” (The Christian Science Monitor). It begins in 1932, when Indianapolis is christened and continues through World War II, when the ship embarks on her final world-changing mission: delivering the core of the atomic bomb to the Pacific for the strike on Hiroshima. “Simply outstanding…Indianapolis is a must-read…a tour de force of true human drama” (Booklist, starred review) that goes beyond the men’s rescue to chronicle the survivors’ fifty-year fight for justice on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. “Enthralling…A gripping study of the greatest sea disaster in the history of the US Navy and its aftermath” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Indianapolis stands as both groundbreaking naval history and spellbinding narrative—and brings the ship and her heroic crew back to full, vivid, unforgettable life. “Vincent and Vladic have delivered an account that stands out through its crisp writing and superb research…Indianapolis is sure to hold its own for a long time” (USA TODAY).
