Author: James Norman Hall
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1836
Book Description
DigiCat presents to you this unique sea adventures collection with novels about mutinies, shipwrecks, travels, and tales of the South Seas. Table of Contents: The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairn's Island Other Sea Adventures: The Hurricane The Dark River Botany Bay Lost Island The High Barbaree The Far Lands Faery Lands of the South Seas The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas: The Forgotten One Captain Handy's Memoirs Sing: A Song of Sixpence A Happy Hedonist Rivnac Frisbie of Danger Island James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.
Men Against the Sea – Book Set
Author: James Norman Hall
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1836
Book Description
DigiCat presents to you this unique sea adventures collection with novels about mutinies, shipwrecks, travels, and tales of the South Seas. Table of Contents: The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairn's Island Other Sea Adventures: The Hurricane The Dark River Botany Bay Lost Island The High Barbaree The Far Lands Faery Lands of the South Seas The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas: The Forgotten One Captain Handy's Memoirs Sing: A Song of Sixpence A Happy Hedonist Rivnac Frisbie of Danger Island James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1836
Book Description
DigiCat presents to you this unique sea adventures collection with novels about mutinies, shipwrecks, travels, and tales of the South Seas. Table of Contents: The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairn's Island Other Sea Adventures: The Hurricane The Dark River Botany Bay Lost Island The High Barbaree The Far Lands Faery Lands of the South Seas The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas: The Forgotten One Captain Handy's Memoirs Sing: A Song of Sixpence A Happy Hedonist Rivnac Frisbie of Danger Island James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.
The Old Man and the Sea
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Men Against the Sea
Author: Charles Nordhoff
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Men Against the Sea follows the events after the Mutiny on the Bounty, when Fletcher Christian and mutineers took control of the ship and set Lieutenant Bligh afloat in a small boat with members of the crew loyal to him. The story follows the journey of Lieutenant William Bligh and the eighteen men set adrift in an open boat by the mutineers of the Bounty. The story is told from the perspective of Thomas Ledward, the Bounty's acting surgeon, who went into the ship's launch with Bligh. Bligh exceeds with his inexhaustible determination and unfaltering leadership, saving the lives of his men and leading them through a horrific experience, to survive the South Pacific.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Men Against the Sea follows the events after the Mutiny on the Bounty, when Fletcher Christian and mutineers took control of the ship and set Lieutenant Bligh afloat in a small boat with members of the crew loyal to him. The story follows the journey of Lieutenant William Bligh and the eighteen men set adrift in an open boat by the mutineers of the Bounty. The story is told from the perspective of Thomas Ledward, the Bounty's acting surgeon, who went into the ship's launch with Bligh. Bligh exceeds with his inexhaustible determination and unfaltering leadership, saving the lives of his men and leading them through a horrific experience, to survive the South Pacific.
People of the Sea
Author: W. Michael Gear
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812507452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
The story of life and love, death and adventure in North America eleven thousand years ago.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812507452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
The story of life and love, death and adventure in North America eleven thousand years ago.
Bounty Trilogy
Author: Charles Nordhoff
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316611664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
The Wyeth edition of the three tales of the Bounty.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316611664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
The Wyeth edition of the three tales of the Bounty.
Men Against the Sea, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Author: Charles Nordhoff
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Men Against the Sea
Author: Charles Nordhoff
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316738880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
MEN AGAINST THE SEA is the epic story of the 19 loyal men who, with Captain Bligh at the helm, were set adrift in a 23-foot open launch. Their 3,600-mile voyage remains one of the greatest feats of courage and adventure in the annals of the sea.
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316738880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
MEN AGAINST THE SEA is the epic story of the 19 loyal men who, with Captain Bligh at the helm, were set adrift in a 23-foot open launch. Their 3,600-mile voyage remains one of the greatest feats of courage and adventure in the annals of the sea.
Men Against the Sea
The Young Man and the Sea
Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545600308
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
A story of determination and survival from the acclaimed author of FREAK THE MIGHTY. "This thrilling and elegant book ... will hold the interest of even the most stalwart landlubber." -- PWTwelve-year-old Skiff Beaman's mom just died, and his fisherman dad is too depressed to drag himself off the couch and go to work. So these days Skiff has to take care of everything himself. But when his dad's boat sinks, Skiff discovers it will cost thousands to buy a new engine. Skiff's lobster traps won't earn him enough, but there are bigger fish in the sea -- bluefin tuna. If he can catch one of those monster fish, Skiff just might save the boat -- and his family.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545600308
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
A story of determination and survival from the acclaimed author of FREAK THE MIGHTY. "This thrilling and elegant book ... will hold the interest of even the most stalwart landlubber." -- PWTwelve-year-old Skiff Beaman's mom just died, and his fisherman dad is too depressed to drag himself off the couch and go to work. So these days Skiff has to take care of everything himself. But when his dad's boat sinks, Skiff discovers it will cost thousands to buy a new engine. Skiff's lobster traps won't earn him enough, but there are bigger fish in the sea -- bluefin tuna. If he can catch one of those monster fish, Skiff just might save the boat -- and his family.
The Sea
Author: John Banville
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030742930X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel—among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030742930X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel—among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.