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Author: Betty Skinner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780891097969
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Daily readings from The Message//REMIX take you through the entire Bible in one year, two years, or four years.

Author: David Lewis
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824815820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.

Author: Jean Fritz
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780698117594
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Recounts St. Brendan's life and voyage to North America long before the Vikings arrived.

Author: Morris West
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781525256448
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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"Son of a Norwegian master-mariner and grandson of Kaloni, the last of the great Polynesian navigators, Gunnar Thorkild is a man consumed by a dream. Convinced that the Polynesians' legendary Island of the Dead is real, he risks his career, his life-and those of his fellow adventurers-to find it. Shipwrecked on the very island they seek, the castaways are forced to leave behind everything they know and rely upon. To survive in this lush tropical paradise, they must make new laws of power and property, of sex and marriage. The Navigator is a gripping tale of sea lore, shipwreck and moral courage. This is a great read and . . . will make you think.' Amazon review Hypnotic from start to finish. Chicago Sun-Times"

Author: Randy Raysbrook
Publisher: The Navigators
ISBN: 9780967248011
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 798

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Author: Julia Ember
Publisher: Interlude Press
ISBN: 9781945053702
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This book contains some graphic violence and scenes that may be upsetting for some readers."--Page preceding page 1.

Author: Jane Galer
Publisher: Long Nights Press
ISBN: 9780984569731
Category : Shipwreck survival
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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A surprising tale of the struggle for survival, The Navigator's Wife is the fictionalized true story of the 1808 shipwreck of the Russian fur trade explorer ship Sv. Nickolai, aground off the isolated coast of the Olympic Peninsula, and the capture of its entire crew including the young wife of the navigator, Anna Petrovna Bulygin, by Makah native people. Anna's struggle to survive in alien and harsh circumstances, the choices she makes, and the insistence with which she masters her environment make her a heroine for all time. Galer's vivid prose has been compared to Joseph Conrad or Jack London. Fleshing the skeleton of the scant factual information, this true event combines adventure, little known history, and a cross cultural love story. "A wonderful literary adventure." Ken Owens, author of The Wreck of the Sv. Nicolai.

Author: Arthur L. Haarmeyer
Publisher: Arthur Haarmeyer
ISBN: 9780988674912
Category : Bombardiers
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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On a wintry morning in 1952, young Lt. Arthur L. Haarmeyer reported for duty in Korea as a B-26 bombardier-navigator to Colonel Delwin Bentley, Commander, 95th Bomb Squadron, 17th Bomb Group, K-9 Air Force Base, Pusan. Haarmeyer was immediately challenged by the colonel: "You've got an MBA from a high-priced university. You could be riding a desk at the Pentagon right now. So why the hell are you here?" His reply--"I always wanted to be here, sir. I can be an accountant later"--was apparently convincing. But over the next seven months, flying fifty missions, mostly low-level nighttime bombing and strafing raids over mountainous North Korea, there were times when he had reason to question the sanity of both his response and his decision. In this book Haarmeyer recalls with clarity and economy of style just what it was like to fly these missions. He puts the reader in the B-26, flying into deep valleys to find and attack communist freight trains and truck convoys carrying men and materiel to the front lines, and then being unexpectedly caught in the sudden and blinding glare of enemy searchlights that triggered multiple streams of deadly and upward-arcing green or white tracers. And he recalls instances of agony, guilt, and terror: such as the times when the flak was so heavy on all sides that he was unable to advise his pilot to "break right" or "break left"-so their B-26 just simply plowed straight through it, or when they flew low enough for Haarmeyer to see, through the Plexiglas of the nose compartment, the terrified faces of the young North Korean soldiers they were targeting. He also recalls moments of breathtaking beauty and poignancy, and it is this artful juxtaposition that makes Haarmeyer's work more than just another wartime memoir. Although Haarmeyer left the Air Force upon completion of his three-year contract of military service, the recurring and troubling memories of Korea never left him. Hence, the start of this manuscript fifty years after the restoration of freedom to the people of the Republic of Korea. Just as telling these stories was therapeutic for the author, so reading them will be healing for any reader who is a veteran of that or any war, as well as their family members and friends. The book also provides a valuable perspective on the United Nations Command's tactical approach to Korea, namely, the aerial interdiction of North Korean troops and materiel, and so it will be of interest to students of the war, as well as military personnel and historians.

Author: Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571243785
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Published simultaneously in New York by Alfred A. Knopf under title: Irresistible north: from Venice to Greenland on the trail of the Zen brothers.