'The wind noise was screaming, howling . . . incredible, plus the rain and the sea spray, it was just like being hit by nails or stabbed in the face.' From the first wreck in 1622 off Western Australia to the tragedy of...
Shipwrecks
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Auteur:Mc Hugh, EvanSommaire: - Auteur:Rogers, FredSommaire:
A history of two centuries of sea lore and detailed misadventure along the Pacific coast of British Columbia.
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Auteur:Armstrong, JenniferSommaire:Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous...
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Auteur:Cranford, GarrySommaire:Along the eastern shores of North America, savage storms have thrust sturdy ships and small boats upon the cliffs and shores of the continent. From these events have come true stories of bravery by skippers and their sea dogs—the crews...
- Auteur:Currie, LindsaySommaire:
For fans of Small Spaces and the Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine comes a chilling ghost story based on real Chicago history about a malevolent spirit, an unlucky girl, and a haunting mystery that will tie the two together. Claire has...
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Auteur:Ryan Guy, JohannaSommaire:The Ryan's Commander capsized off Spillars Cove, near Bonavista, on September 19, 2004. In the tragic wreck, two brothers were lost: Dave and Joe “June” Ryan. A federal report concluded that vessel design was one of the factors...
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Auteur:Defoe, DanielSommaire:Robinson Crusoe is the classic tale about one man's lust for adventure. Crusoe leaves his parents and hometown for the open sea in the year 1651. But the ocean can be unforgiving and Crusoe, unfortunately, learns this the hard way....
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Auteur:Philbrick, NathanielSommaire:On November 20, 1820, the whale ship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. Within minutes, the twenty-one man crew, including the fourteen-year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, found themselves stranded in three leaky boats in the...
- Auteur:Campbell, Douglas A., Tougias, Michael J.Sommaire:
On October 23, 2012, with Superstorm Sandy fast approaching, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail the HMS Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida, believing the wooden ship, a replica of the...
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Auteur:Vautier, ClarenceSommaire:From bestselling author Clarence Vautier comes more stories of unsung heroes: the fishermen who made a living off the sea in Atlantic Canada. These stories are the biographies, family histories, and photograph collections of twenty-two...
- Auteur:HILL, DavidSommaire:
Stuart and his twin sister Sandra are coming home to Wellington on the ferry. It's April 1968 and the ship is the Wahine. As the tragic events unwind Stuart and Sandra battle to stay alive.
- Auteur:Gilly, William O. S.Sommaire:
"[...]master was at the wheel; the captain stood by to con and to direct his steering. At one fearful crisis, every blast threatened to shiver a sail, or to carry away a spar, and a single false movement of the helmsman, or the...
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Auteur:GODDARD, RobertSommaire:A sequence of extraordinary events over the past 300 years provides the links in a chain of intrigue, deceit, greed and murder: The loss of "HMS Association" with all hands in 1707. An admiralty clerk's secret mission...
- Auteur:EDWARDS, HughSommaire:
The wreck of the Dutch ship Batavia, the mutiny of her crew and cruel death of those stranded on the inhospitable coast of Western Australia off the Abrolhos Islands. This book vividly describes the work of the archeological team who...
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Auteur:Philbrick, NathanielSommaire:In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history.
- Auteur:Tougias, Mike, Stanton, DougSommaire:
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean. They struggled to stay alive, fighting off sharks, hypothermia, and hallucinations.
- Auteur:Clive CusslerSommaire:
The towering iceberg drifting in the North Atlantic was a floating tomb. Embedded in the great gleaming mass was a ship - sealed in so solidly that not even its mast protruded. Here was a sea mystery to rank alongside the Bermuda...
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Auteur:Parsons, Robert C.Sommaire:“Hope dies hard with a sailor.” — W. B. Cullen, mate of the Roanoke, 1909
Globe and Mail bestselling author Robert C. Parsons presents more than fifty exciting stories of high-seas adventure! Set mainly along the shores...
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Auteur:Draper, PennySommaire:High above the crashing waves on the rugged west coast of Canada stands the lighthouse Nell calls home. It's a tiny world, just the ocean in front and the rainforest in back, but she loves every inch. So when Nell's father wants to send...
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Auteur:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Sommaire:“Your life story didn’t begin with you. It reaches back to the beginning of time. You rose from the bodies of your ancestors. You’re the witness to their existence.”
There is nothing more alive than the sea, nothing more deadly...
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