The True Sea
Author : F. W. Belland
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : F. W. Belland
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Julia Drake
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1368049419
Fans of Far from the Tree, We Are Okay and Emergency Contact will love this epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. The Larkin family isn't just lucky—they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece—the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes—and the bridges she builds along the way—may be the start of something like survival. Epic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck.
Author : Captain Marvin F. Hopkins
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1490751548
Out of the Fog - True Sea Stories is about the adventures of my father, Captain Marvin F. Hopkins, and his experiences as a young man and his love of Arizona and then his love of the sea, becoming a ship captain traveling around the world. He conducted ship expeditions from the area of the North Pole to the area of the South Pole. Enjoy this chronological history of his adventures during his times of building the roads in the hot Arizona desert, to meeting then presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to later trying to organize a group of penguins, to bringing a Christmas tree to Christmas Island, to trying to locate a dead crewman's casket lost somewhere at San Francisco's airport.
Author : F. W. Belland
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Florida Keys (Fla.)
ISBN : 9780964343498
Author : Mustard
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Sea stories
ISBN : 9780752528304
Author : Raffi Berg
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1785786016
THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. 'Secret missions, brazen deceptions and thrilling, clandestine operations - Red Sea Spies has it all. But it has something more important, too - a genuine human mission that made a difference.' David Hoffman, author of The Billion Dollar Spy '[A] thrilling and meticulous account.' The Times In the early 1980s on a remote part of the Sudanese coast, a new luxury holiday resort opened for business. Catering for divers, it attracted guests from around the world. Little did the holidaymakers know that the staff were undercover spies, working for the Mossad - the Israeli secret service. Providing a front for covert night-time activities, the holiday village allowed the agents to carry out an operation unlike any seen before. What began with one cryptic message pleading for help, turned into the secret evacuation of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who had been languishing in refugee camps, and the spiriting of them to Israel. Written in collaboration with operatives involved in the mission, endorsed as the definitive account and including an afterword from the commander who went on to become the head of the Mossad, this is the complete, never-before-heard, gripping tale of a top-secret and often hazardous operation. 'Red Sea Spies is what really happened. There is none of the Hollywood colouring-in, and yet the book is all the more vivid for it ... part thriller, part dark comedy, all true ... Berg brings out the native drama in an improbable story of a clandestine homecoming.' Spectator
Author : Henry Brook
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Marine accidents
ISBN : 9780439795630
Ten true stories of maritime adventure explore the incredible lure of the world's oceans.
Author : Gusme Bonomi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1365612996
Set in 13th century Europe. A hunter is abducted and his sister is cruelly raped and killed. The hunter ends up on a trading company ship. The overseer of the cog needs someone to do his dirty work, and the hunter seeks revenge. So he has no choice but to make a deal with the overseer, in return the hunter will find out who orchestrated the event that lead to his sister's brutal death. One hand washes the other. They sail through the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, from kingdom to kingdom, port to port, the hunter is willing to do anything it takes. Through joint effort, the hunter and the overseer become cruelly efficient partners and even friends.
Author : Robert Drewe
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1760143324
An artist marooned on a remote island in the Arafura Sea contemplates his survival chances. He understands his desperate plight and the ocean’s unrelenting power. But what is its true colour? A beguiling young woman nurses a baby by a lake while hiding brutal scars. Uneasy descendants of a cannibal victim visit the Pacific island of their ancestor’s murder. A Caribbean cruise of elderly tourists faces life with wicked optimism. Witty, clever, ever touching and always inventive, the eleven stories in The True Colour of the Sea take us to many varied coasts: whether a tense Christmas holiday apartment overlooking the Indian Ocean or the shabby glamour of a Cuban resort hotel. Relationships might be frayed, savaged, regretted or celebrated, but here there is always the life-force of the ocean – seducing, threatening, inspiring. In The True Colour of the Sea, Robert Drewe – Australia’s master of the short story form – makes a gift of stories that tackle the big themes of life: love, loss, desire, family, ageing, humanity and the life of art.
Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393040166
A true story of men against the sea.