Author: Noel McGaryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780295955575
Category : Tides
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Tide Prints
Author: Noel McGaryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780295955575
Category : Tides
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141974311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
'"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"' In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins's parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest - where 'X' marks the spot of a stash of buried pirate gold. Setting sail with his friends on the ship Hispaniola to recover the treasure, Jim soon realizes that he's not the only one who knows about the hoard. Suddenly he is thrown into a world of treachery, mutiny, castaways and murder and, at the centre of it all, is the charming but sinister Long John Silver, who will stop at nothing to grab his share of the loot... The Ebb-Tide, a short novel published the year of Stevenson's death, is also a rollicking seafaring adventure, narrating the voyage of a stolen ship whilst exploring such themes as imperialism, violence, dishonesty, Christianity and corruption. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Dark Tide
Author: Stephen PuleoPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807078018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history—and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it. Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window—“Oh my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!” A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn’t known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster.
On a Rising Tide
Author: Charlie PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906549909
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Waiting for High Tide
Author: Nikki McClurePublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1613129289
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
For one young boy, it’s a perfect summer day to spend at the beach with his family. He scours the high tide line for treasures, listens to the swizzling sound of barnacles, and practices walking the plank. But mostly he waits for high tide. Then he’ll be able to swim and dive off the log raft his family is building. While he waits, sea birds and other creatures mirror the family’s behaviors: building and hunting, wading and eating. At long last the tide arrives, and human and animal alike savor the water. Another beautiful ode to life lived in harmony with nature, and by the labor of one’s own hands, from an artist of great warmth and clarity.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools
Author: Marni FyllingPublisher: Fylling's Illustrated Guides
ISBN: 9781597143028
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hundreds of thousands of people visit Califorina's coasts each year and most explore the tide pools and the delightful, accurate illustrations lend distinctive character to this compact guide
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1870
Book Description
Tidal Current Tables, Pacific Coast of North America and Asia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Contains daily predicted times of slack water and predicted times and velocities of maximum current.
Author: