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Author: Bruno Traven Publisher: Synergy International of the Americas ISBN: 9789977124193 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Stateless with no passport and not a nickel in his pocket, an American sailor is chased by police across Europe. He finally finds a job shoveling coal on a steamer headed for destruction. As you read this story of desparation you will know that this is truly a death ship. Reading this novel as your first Traven experience will propell you into reading all of his novels. Traven readers share a unique experience that automatically opens the door to conversation. Traven's novels have sold over 35 million copies in more than 15 languages. A Collector's Edition.
Author: Bruno Traven Publisher: Synergy International of the Americas ISBN: 9789977124193 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Stateless with no passport and not a nickel in his pocket, an American sailor is chased by police across Europe. He finally finds a job shoveling coal on a steamer headed for destruction. As you read this story of desparation you will know that this is truly a death ship. Reading this novel as your first Traven experience will propell you into reading all of his novels. Traven readers share a unique experience that automatically opens the door to conversation. Traven's novels have sold over 35 million copies in more than 15 languages. A Collector's Edition.
Author: Jane Smith Publisher: ISBN: 9780648650300 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 388
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Impeccably researched and poignantly told, Ship of Death unfurls the true saga of the 'Emigrant'. For the first time, this book reveals the human stories of some key players in the drama and brings to life a remarkable journey common to Australia's early settlers. Their stories are tales of hardship, resilience, courage, and despair.
Author: Cian T. McMahon Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479820539 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 325
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Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself. Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called “coffin ships” they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences of the emigrants aboard these vessels offer us a much more complex understanding of this pivotal moment in modern history. Based on archival research on three continents and written in clear, crisp prose, The Coffin Ship analyzes the emigrants’ own letters and diaries to unpack the dynamic social networks that the Irish built while voyaging overseas. At every stage of the journey—including the treacherous weeks at sea—these migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora. Colored by the long-lost voices of the emigrants themselves, this is an original portrait of a process that left a lasting mark on Irish life at home and abroad. An indispensable read, The Coffin Ship makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.
Author: Vera Morris Publisher: ISBN: 9781786159939 Category : Languages : en Pages : 256
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With a ruthless criminal loose on the Suffolk coast, life is anything but peaceful for the Anglian Detective Agency . . . At Rooks Wood Farm, Rosalind Breen's twin sons grieve her death. Daniel shoulders the burdens of running the farm and caring for his brother, Caleb, who's shunned for his strange appearance. Meanwhile, Minsmere Bird Reserve is suffering a spate of vandalism and senior partners of the Anglican Detective Agency, Frank Diamond and Laurel Bowman, are enlisted to find the culprits. But shortly after taking the case, Laurel discovers the body of a young man dumped in one of the meres and the detectives are caught up in a murder enquiry. All evidence points to one suspect but can the Anglian Detective Agency catch the killer? Or will it take another death for the truth to be finally set free? Readers LOVE Vera Morris's Anglian Detective Agency series: 'I sat up to past midnight reading this book' ***** 'Full of twists and turns' ***** 'A book you just know you are going to like from the 1st page' ***** 'A perfect detective novel' ***** 'I started it early one morning and had finished it by bed-time that same day!' ***** 'A super read' ***** 'This book stands head and shoulders above the rest in this overcrowded genre' ***** 'Absolute must read' *****
Author: Kim Hyesoon Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811227359 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 127
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Kim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent) *Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award* The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death, that we remain living in.” Autobiography of Death, Kim’s most compelling work to date, at once reenacts trauma and narrates our historical death—how we have died and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten, bombed, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm,” a poem about individual pain, illness, and meditation.
Author: Gareth Russell Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501176749 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 448
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This original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Western world. “While there are many Titanic books, this is one readers will consider a favorite” (Voyage). In April 1912, six notable people were among those privileged to experience the height of luxury—first class passage on “the ship of dreams,” the RMS Titanic: Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; son of the British Empire Tommy Andrews; American captain of industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish-American immigrant Ida Straus; and American model and movie star Dorothy Gibson. Within a week of setting sail, they were all caught up in the horrifying disaster of the Titanic’s sinking, one of the biggest news stories of the century. Today, we can see their stories and the Titanic’s voyage as the beginning of the end of the established hierarchy of the Edwardian era. Writing in his signature elegant prose and using previously unpublished sources, deck plans, journal entries, and surviving artifacts, Gareth Russell peers through the portholes of these first-class travelers to immerse us in a time of unprecedented change in British and American history. Through their intertwining lives, he examines social, technological, political, and economic forces such as the nuances of the British class system, the explosion of competition in the shipping trade, the birth of the movie industry, the Irish Home Rule Crisis, and the Jewish-American immigrant experience while also recounting their intimate stories of bravery, tragedy, and selflessness. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white photographs, this is “a beautiful requiem” (The Wall Street Journal) in which “readers get the story of this particular floating Tower of Babel in riveting detail, and with all the wider context they could want” (Christian Science Monitor).
Author: Steven Edwin Laffoley Publisher: ISBN: 9781897426098 Category : Cholera Languages : en Pages : 0
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"On an uncomfortably muggy morning in early autumn, I found myself standing at the far end of a wide, battered wharf in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, looking for a man in knee-high, white rubber boots answering to the name of Captain Red Beard..I'd come in search of a death ship, or at least the historical whispers of a death ship -- an elegant old steamer that limped into Halifax harbour during the early hours of April 9, 1866, with more than a thousand Irish and German emigrants squeezed into its cramped, creaking holds. And I'd come in search of what travelled with them and, in fact, inside many of them: Asiatic cholera. And, finally, I'd come in search of the intertwining tales of those lives inexorably changed by history's worst cholera epidemic, which killed tens of thousands from Mecca to Manhattan to McNab's Island in the mouth of Halifax harbour." So begins another strange and surprising adventure of writer Steven Laffoley as he explores historic McNab's Island in search of Halifax during its time of cholera. As he investigates the rich history of the island and searches for clues to the many dark, cholera-ship tales, Steven confronts the nature of fear and the fear of nature, including fetid marshes, abandoned buildings, a berry-mad bear, a love-starved beaver, a gaggle of naked maidens, and two drunken revolutionaries just looking for some fun. Death Ship of Halifax Harbour is a fascinating and engaging tale of fate, fear and hope.
Author: William Clark Russell Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
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Geoffrey Fenton is a second-rate officer who embarks on the ship called Saracen. On the high seas, they have an encounter with a brig who claims to have sighted the mythical ghost ship of the Flying Dutchman, cursed ship that can never reach land, condemned to sail forever and ever, bringing bad luck to any ship that crosses its path. This information starts haunting the captain of the Saracen due to the contagious bad luck that this may entail and it turns out to be right when Fenton suffers an accident. He gets rescued by the ghostly crew of the Flying Dutchmen and the infamous Captain Vanderdecken. His only mission becomes to escape from the Death Ship.
Author: Bruno Traven
Author: Bruno Traven
Author: Billy G. Smith
Author: Jane Smith
Author: Cian T. McMahon
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Vera Morris
Author: Kim Hyesoon
Author: Gareth Russell
Author: Steven Edwin Laffoley
Author: William Clark Russell