The Twin Captains
Author : Alexandre Dumas
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 1861
Category : France
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 1861
Category : France
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Author : Veniamin Kaverin
Publisher : Fredonia Books (NL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 9781410103284
Two Captains is the most renowned novel of the Russian writer Veniamin Kaverin. The plot spans from 1912 to 1944. For more than half a century the book has been loved by children and adults alike. The novel has undergone more than 100 printings, including translations into other languages. Based on its story, plays have been staged and an opera has been written. The plot of the book also became the basis of two movies of the same title in 1955 and 1976. In 1995 in Pskov, the home town of the author, a monument was erected to the characters of the book and a "Two Captains" museum was opened. The real prototype for Captain Tatarinov was Lieutenant Georgii Brusilov, who in 1912 organized a privately funded expedition seeking a west-to-east Northern sea route. The steamship "St. Anna," specially built for the expedition, left Petersburg on 28 July 1912. Near the shores of Yamal peninsula it was seized by ice and carried in the ice drift to the north of the Kara Sea. The expedition survived two hard winters. Of the 14 people who left the stranded steamship in 1914, only two made it to one of the islands of Frants-Joseph Land and were spotted and taken aboard "St. Foka", the ship of the expedition of G. Y. Sedov. The ship log they had kept with them contained the most important of the scientific data, after the study of which Sedov's expedition found the previously unknown island in the Kara Sea, Vize Island. The ultimate fate of "St.Anna" and its remaining crew is still unknown. Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989) wrote novels, short stories, fairy tales, memoirs, and biographies. In the early 1920s, Veniamin Kaverin was a member of experimental literary group "Serapionovi bratya". In 1946 his novel Two Captains became the winner of the USSR State Literature Award.
Author : Alexandre Dumas
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Page : 348 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 1869
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Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781318500604
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : Sune Dahlström
Publisher :
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 2008
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ISBN : 9789185925926
Author : Bland Simpson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807838101
In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War-era South. With his lyrical prose and inimitable voice, Bland Simpson offers readers a grand tale of the striving human spirit and the great divide that nearly sundered the nation. Grandy, born a slave, captained freight boats on the Dismal Swamp Canal and bought his freedom three times before he finally gained it. He became involved in Boston abolitionism and ultimately appeared before the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1843. As a child, Maffitt was sent from his North Carolina home to a northern boarding school, and at thirteen he was appointed midshipman in the U.S. Navy, where he had a distinguished career. After North Carolina seceded from the Union, he enlisted in the Confederate navy and became a legendary blockade runner and raider. Both Grandy and Maffitt made names for themselves as they navigated very different routes through the turbulent waters of antebellum America.
Author : Friedrich de la Motte Fouque
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2023-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387023006
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Craven Langstroth Betts
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805
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Author : Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Two Captains is about Captains Sir Heimbert and Don Fadrique Mendez and their adventure to find Lucila in the city of Malaga. Excerpt: Somewhat apart from the merry tumult, a young German captain, Sir Heimbert of Waldhausen, was reclining under a cork tree, gazing earnestly up at the stars, apparently in a very different mood...
Author : Friedrich Heinrich K. freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 1843
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