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Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

Author : Gabriel García Márquez

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 99 pages

File Size : 10,15 MB

Release : 2014-10-15

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1101911093

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AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.



Second Read

Author : James Marcus

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 30,65 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0231159307

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This anthology includes, among many other enlightening essays, Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's 'The Tribes of America'; Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year', Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring', and much more.



The Shipwrecked Sailor: A Tale from Egypt

Author : Suzanne I. Barchers

Publisher : Red Chair Press

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 34,60 MB

Release : 2022-08-21

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1684526620

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Sadiki fears the worst when he is tossed from his ship in a storm. But a chance encounter with a serpent changes his life and that of the Pharoah.



The Shipwrecked Sailor

Author : Tamara Bower

Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 27,82 MB

Release : 2014-01-14

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9781481425254

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This story is based on one found on a papyrus scroll of hieroglyphs from the nineteenth century B.C., Egypt. It tells the tale of a voyage on the Red Sea to a mysterious and enchanted land of riches located south of Egypt. On his way to the King's gold mines, a sailor is shipwrecked on a magic island, the Island of the Soul. Not long after he arrives, a gigantic serpent with scales of gold appears and reveals to the sailor that he is the Prince of Punt, and is also a lone survivor. The two become good friends, but one day a ship comes to rescue the sailor. Bearing gifts from the Prince, the sailor returns to Egypt with full hands, and a full heart. This is a tale of the surprising (and fortuitous) bonds that unite us, and of the good that comes to us when we least expect it. Tamara Bower's lush illustrations are rendered in Egyptian style, and phrases from the story appear in hieroglyphs with their literal translations.



Middle Egyptian Literature

Author : James P. Allen

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 459 pages

File Size : 10,96 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN : 1107087430

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Book Description

This volume provides original texts as well as translations of the major works of Middle Kingdom literature.



Skeletons on the Zahara

Author : Dean King

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 351 pages

File Size : 24,82 MB

Release : 2004-02-16

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0759509697

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b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.



The Mosquito Coast

Author : Paul Theroux

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 497 pages

File Size : 20,42 MB

Release : 2011-12-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0241959195

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Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020 The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness. 'Stunning. . . exciting, intelligent, meticulously realised, artful' Victoria Glendinning, Sunday Times 'An epic of paranoid obsession that swirls the reader headlong to deposit him on a black mudbank of horror' Christopher Wordsworth, Guardian 'Magnificently stimulating and exciting' Anthony Burgess American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his novels and collected short stories, My Other Life, The Collected Stories, My Secret History, The Lower River, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro, A Dead Hand, Millroy the Magician, The Elephanta Suite, Saint Jack, The Consul's File, The Family Arsenal, and his works of non-fiction, including the iconic The Great Railway Bazaar are available from Penguin.



Robinson Crusoe

Author : Daniel Defoe

Publisher :

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 19,98 MB

Release : 1905

Category : Adventure and adventurers

ISBN :

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An adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe who was shipwrecked on an island, how he survived and was finally rescued. Rewritten "in words easy for every child, ... shortened by leaving out all the dull parts."



Four Against the Arctic

Author : David Roberts

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 19,3 MB

Release : 2005-09-02

Category : History

ISBN : 0743272315

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In 1743, four stranded Russian sailors survived the next six years in the Arctic with no provisions. Making a bow and arrows from driftwood--since there are no trees there--they survived on reindeer meat until another ship blown off course rescued them.



Boon Island

Author : Stephen A. Erickson

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 23,68 MB

Release : 2012-11-06

Category : History

ISBN : 0762790792

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The wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island and the resultant rumors of insurance fraud, mutiny, treason, and cannibalism was one of the most sensational stories of the early 18th century. Shortly after departing England with Captain John Deane at the helm, his brother Jasper and another investor aboard, and a skeleton crew, the ship encountered French privateers on her way to Ireland, where she then lingered for weeks picking up cargo. They eventually headed into the North Atlantic later in the season than was reasonably safe and found themselves shipwrecked on the notorious Boon Island, just off the New England coast. Captain Deane offered one version of the events that led them to the barren rock off the coast of Maine; his crew proposed another. The story contains mysteries that endure to this day, yet no contemporary non-fiction account of the story exists. In the hands of skilled storytellers Andrew Vietze and Stephen Erickson, this becomes a historical adventure-mystery that will appeal to readers of South and The Perfect Storm.



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