Book Description
Reexamines the Challenger tragedy, discusses the causes of the crash, and looks at questions about the shuttle program's future
Author : Richard S. Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780231064903
Reexamines the Challenger tragedy, discusses the causes of the crash, and looks at questions about the shuttle program's future
Author : Stephanie True Peters
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 23,41 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 : Peter Nichols
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 21,42 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 : Philip Chien
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,80 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 : James K. Barnett
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,59 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 : Ray Funderburk
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2001-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595166059
The Eternity is a Swiss death ship. It ventures into international waters to offer its passengers, each of whom is terminally ill, a quiet, peaceful death for a fee of $25,000. Young Robert Hoskins, fresh out of medical school and broke, signs on to be a ship's doctor. He is appalled with what is happening and becomes emotionally involved with his dying patients. The ship's director, Heinrich Hauser, is a stern, militaristic Swiss manager who demands that Hoskins kill, not save, his patients. Hoskins openly defies the system and is terminated. The young doctor is determined to get revenge. He learns Hauser is selling organs taken from patients. He tells the media, and the organ sales scam becomes an international incident. Action and excitement escalates as Hauser goes berserk and tries to kill Hoskins. The ship steams out of control as the crew and passengers hide. Several are shot and killed and US Navy Seals are brought aboard to help quell the rampage.
Author : Ally Condie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0525426450
The fierce new YA novel from Ally Condie, author of the bestselling Matched trilogy “A compelling, serpentine journey into the heart of grief, the way it can threaten to destroy, and what it looks like to survive.” —Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes “With its wonderful subversion of gender tropes and achingly real characters, The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe takes readers on an epic journey to unearth life’s true treasures. Ally Condie has knocked it out of the park.” —Renée Ahdieh, bestselling author of Smoke in the Sun and The Wrath & the Dawn Who do you become when you have nothing left to lose? There is something Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost’s last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous waters of the Serpentine and realizes there might be a traitor among her crew, she must also reckon with who she has become, who she wants to be, and the ways love can change and shape you. Even—and especially—when you think all is lost. Ally Condie, the international bestselling author of the Matched trilogy, returns with an intricately crafted and emotionally gripping story of one young woman’s journey to move beyond the grief and anger that control her and find the inner strength to chart her own course.
Author : Santa Montefiore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 2006-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743299434
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2005 by Hodder and Stoughton"--T.p. verso.
Author : Peter Nichols
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1101460954
"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read." -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but the disaster was catastrophic at home. Oil and Ice is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil economy, and the fate of today's petroleum industry.
Author : Jonathan Eyers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1442221674
"With disasters from all over the world, these are stories of the people--whether they lived or died--as well as the ships."--Back cover.