Author: Joseph ConradPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Sea Tales of the Seven Seas
Author: Joseph ConradTales of the Seven Seas
Author: Dennis M. PowersPublisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1589794486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.S. West Coast. This book tells of sailing over the oceans when danger and adventure coexisted every day, tough times, and courageous men in distant places, from the Hawaiian Islands to the Bering Sea. Smell the salt in the air and hear the ocean's rush as the ship sails with hardened men, leaking seams, and shrieking winds.
Sea Tales of the Seven Seas
Author: Joseph ConradPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sea stories
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas
Author: Peter FreuchenPublisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781592281251
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover the great mysteries of the sea with one of the most famous explorers of our time.
Sea Fights and Shipwrecks
Author: Hanson Weightman BaldwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval battles
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Queen of the Seven Seas
Author: Kathleen RoyPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496982304
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
This is an unusual book for young children who have much to learn about conservation and protection of nearly extinct sea creatures. The sea needed a queen at this time of global warming someone to take care of sea pollution.
Beneath the Seven Seas
Author: George F BassPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500051364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Firsthand accounts from around the world of more than forty of the most important shipwreck and sunken-city projects ever undertaken. From the Pacific to the Mediterranean, from the Caribbean to the Red Sea, from northern Europe and the northern United States to the Indian Ocean, archaeologists vividly describe shipwrecks from centuries past, from the oldest and deepest ever excavated to the remains of battles in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II. Readers will dive nearly 200 feet with Cemal Pulak on a royal ship that sank over 3,300 years ago off the Aegean coast of Turkey, and explore with Donny Hamilton the streets and houses of the richest English colony in the New World, the infamous pirate stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, swallowed by the sea in 1692. They will accompany famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, as he and Cheryl Ward search for shipwrecks in the deep, oxygen-free waters of the Black Sea. They will wade with archaeologist Fred Hocker through mud along the bank of a South Carolina river, and then sail through a gale with Susan Womer Katzev on a full-scale replica of the best-preserved ancient Greek ship yet raised from the depths of the Mediterranean. The book describes the tragic loss, within sight of their loved ones, of seamen returning home to Portugal in 1606, at the end of a two-year voyage to the East on the Nossa Senhora dos Martires, and then describes the fate of the crew of another Portuguese ship, the Santo Antonio de Tanna, which sank off Mombasa, Kenya, while trying to lift the siege of Fort Jesus by Omani Arabs in 1697. It describes the foods, games, weapons, tools, and grooming implements on a ship sailed by Bulgarian merchants around AD 1025, carrying as cargo the largest known collections of medieval Islamic glass and glazed pottery. 350 color illustrations.
Arctic Adventure
Author: Peter FreuchenPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787202526
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
Originally published in 1956, this book is a memoir by Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, a close friend and travel companion of Arctic legend Knud Rasmussen, and ended up living in Greenland for fifteen years, 800 miles from the North Pole—adopting the native ways of life, marrying an Inuit woman, and having two children along the way. Arctic Adventure is filled with tales of seal and polar bear hunts, enduring starvation, encountering people who had resorted to cannibalism, and the stirring experience of seeing the sun again after three months of winter darkness. Rich in human saga, Freuchen’s warmth, wit, and literary talent make this recollection of real-life adventure stories a stand-out. “Except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time.”—Evelyn Stefansson, The New York Times “[A] formidable and fascinating man”—Harriet Baker, AnOther Richly illustrated throughout with maps and black-and-white photographs.
The Seven Seas
Author: Ellen JacksonPublisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 0802853412
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
During a geography lesson, a child takes an imaginary journey to each of the seven seas, including the Brown Sea which is made of chocolate, and the Pink Sea which has flamingos.
Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos
Author: Peter FreuchenPublisher: Fawcett Books
ISBN: 9780449300381
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Written by the man who knew the Eskimos better than any other man of our generation, Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos presents an extraordinary close-up of a civilization still shrouded in secrecy--one of the strangest societies in the entire world.