The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader dies, Captain Francis Crozier attempts to lead his men south across the ice. But as the Terror on the ice stalks them...
Shipwreck survival
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Author:Simmons, DanSummary: - Author:Simmons, Dan.Summary:
The men on board the HMS Terror -part of the ill-fated 1945 Franklin Expedition-are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of ice and desolation. Endlessly cold, they struggle...
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Author:Wyss, Johann DavidSummary:Share with the Robinsons--a minister, his wife, and four sons--as they survive a shipwreck and then adapt to life on an island populated by exotic birds and animals. Through small successes and disappointments, not only does this...
- Author:Albom, MitchSummary:
What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In Mitch Albom's profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be "the Lord....
- Author:García Márquez, GabrielSummary:
Gabriel García Márquez shares an account of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer whose crew were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia.
- Author:Abé, ShanaSummary:
Madeleine Talmage Force is just seventeen when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly upper-class, but the Astors are in a league apart. Jack's mother was...
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Author:Rogan, CharlotteSummary:In the summer of 1914, Grace elopes with Henry Winter in London. When the elegant ocean liner carrying them home to America suffers a mysterious explosion, Henry sacrifices his own safety and secures Grace a seat in a lifeboat, which...
- Author:Wells, H.G.Summary:
After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods had caused an uproar that left him...
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Author:Collins, GarySummary:On the night of November 29, 1929, eleven schooners set sail for home from the comfort and safety of St. John’s harbour. They all headed north: directly into the teeth of a deadly hurricane.
Here for the first time are the...
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Author:Tougias, Mike, Sherman, CaseySummary:The true story of the valiant attempt to rescue those inside two oil tankers that split in half during the brutal nor'easter in New England in the winter of 1952.
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On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation tells the...
- Author:Katsu, AlmaSummary:
From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger comes an eerie, psychological twist on one of the world's most renowned tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic....
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Phillip Enright, a 12 year old boy, and Timothy, an aged Negro, are marooned on a cay or sea island after their ship is torpedoed during World War II. Phillip, blinded as a result of the explosion, must rely on Timothy to survive.
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Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important...
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The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips and the shipwreck that changed his life. On February 18, 1942 the US Navy destroyer Truxton was shipwrecked off Newfoundland. 110 men died; of the 46 who survived one was black. The rescuers,...
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Author:Pierce Harding, MarciaSummary:After a vicious storm aboard ship, fourteen-year-old Caleb is tossed into the Atlantic Ocean. Frightened and alone, he finds himself nudged awake. He's been recovered by one of Sable Island's legendary wild stallions and is...
- Author:Sepetys, RutaSummary:
For readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, international bestselling author Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating--yet unknown--...
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Author:Defoe, DanielSummary: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....
- Author:Campbell, Douglas A., Tougias, Michael J.Summary:
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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Author:Saunders, RexSummary:“This is going to be a good day out in boat,” said Rex Saunders, a sixty-six-year-old sealer from St. Lunaire-Griquet, NL, before heading out to the icefields on May 4, 2009. Later that day, the cold and unforgiving waters of the...
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