Author: New Horizon (Ship)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Deck Log Book, New Horizon
Author: New Horizon (Ship)New Horizon
Author: Brian F. GehlingPublisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
Equipped with an experimental faster-than-light drive, a United Systems cruiser is converted and recommissioned as the exploratory vessel New Horizon. During its first jump, something goes terribly wrong, damaging the ship and hurtling it thousands of light-years from its destination. With the FTL drive destroyed, the handpicked crew's only option is to settle in a nearby star system. Fortunately, a habitable planet exists in the system, populated by creatures that are strikingly similar to those of Earth's past. Internal politics, along with a series of accidents, plagues the fledgling colony while they struggle to gain a foothold and discover the secrets of the planet. The prospects become grim when the dominant rulers of the world arrive to dispute the New Horizon crew's precarious claim.
Glossary of Navigation
Author: John Bradley HarbordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Boating
Author: Thicker Than Water
Author: Erica CirinoPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831387
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Much of what you’ve heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. Instead of a great island of trash, the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of manmade debris spread over hundreds of miles of sea—more like a soup than a floating garbage dump. Recycling is more complicated than we were taught: less than nine percent of the plastic we create is reused, and the majority ends up in the ocean. And plastic pollution isn’t confined to the open ocean: it’s in much of the air we breathe and the food we eat. In Thicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis, journalist Erica Cirino brings readers on a globe-hopping journey to meet the scientists and activists telling the real story of the plastic crisis. From the deck of a plastic-hunting sailboat with a disabled engine, to the labs doing cutting-edge research on microplastics and the chemicals we ingest, Cirino paints a full picture of how plastic pollution is threatening wildlife and human health. Thicker Than Water reveals that the plastic crisis is also a tale of environmental injustice, as poorer nations take in a larger share of the world’s trash, and manufacturing chemicals threaten predominantly Black and low-income communities. There is some hope on the horizon, with new laws banning single-use items and technological innovations to replace plastic in our lives. But Cirino shows that we can only fix the problem if we face its full scope and begin to repair our throwaway culture. Thicker Than Water is an eloquent call to reexamine the systems churning out waves of plastic waste.
Sailboat Hull and Deck Repair
Author: Don CaseyPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071502947
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A fiberglass hull's seamless nature leads many boatowners to conclude that repair must be difficult. Wrong. Here, clearly and abundantly illustrated, is all you need to know to seal joints, bed hardware, replace portlights, locate leaks, fix cracks and even holes, restore your hull's gloss, renew nonskid decks, and much more. You'll wonder what you were worried about.
Text-book of Seamanship
Author: Stephen Bleecker LucePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Deck Log Book, New Horizon
Author: New Horizon (Ship)The Sign Of Love
Author: Barbara CartlandPublisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
ISBN: 1788672259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Not only has the beautiful eighteen year old Bettina Charlwood lost her beloved mother but is made all but destitute by her father’s constant gambling and she has to leave the French school as her deceased Godmother had financed her fees. Now death strikes once more as her chaperone dies on the ferry from Calais to Dover in a wild storm. And Bettina, not knowing what to do, is saved by an earnest young gentleman whose name is Lord Eustace Veston. Arriving home she finds that she and her father are invited by the famous Duke of Alveston to accompany him on a trip in his luxurious yacht to Egypt with a large party for the historic Opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Another surprise awaits her when she finds that the Duke has invited his half-brother as well, whom her father hopes that she will marry. And that half-brother is none other than her Good Samaritan at Dover, Lord Eustace Veston himself. But while Bettinna finds the Duke almost impossibly handsome and awe-inspiring, Lord Eustace by contrast reveals himself to be a mean-spirited ‘do-gooder’ – and something of a bully to boot. In addition he has developed a deep hatred for the Duke and he has set his heart on inheriting his title and huge fortune by any means. And, despite Lord Eustace’s assumption that Bettina will happily marry him, she soon finds the magnificence, generosity and great charm of the Duke very hard to resist.
Invisible Horizons
Author: Vincent H. GaddisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Compendium of extraordinary adventures and supranormal events and phenomena men have witnessed on the high seas.