Ship Fever
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996-11-17
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0393316009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
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Cabin Fever
Author: Michael Smith
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0385547439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway—COVID-19—days before the world shut down in March 2020. This riveting narrative thriller takes readers behind the scenes with passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead. In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hot spots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, loaded with 1,200 passengers—Americans, Europeans and South Americans, plus 600 crew. Most passengers were over the age of sixty-five. There was concern about the virus on the news, and it had already killed and sickened passengers on other Holland America ships. But that was oceans away, and escaping to sea at the ends of the earth for a few weeks seemed like it might be a good option. The cruise line had said the voyage (three weeks around the South American coastline to see some of the world’s most stunning natural wonders and ancient ruins) would carry on as scheduled, with no refunds. And it would be safe. Among the travelers there is a retired American school superintendent on a dream vacation with his wife of fifty-six years, on a personal quest to see Machu Picchu. There is an Argentine psychologist taking this trip to celebrate her sixty-fourth birthday with her husband, though she finds herself fretting in her cabin on day one, trying to dismiss her fears of what she’s hearing on the news. There is an Indonesian laundry manager who's been toiling on Holland America cruise ships for thirty years, sending his monthly paycheck to his family back home. Within days, people aboard Zaandam begin to fall sick. The world’s ports shut down. Zaandam becomes a top story on the news and is denied safe harbor everywhere. With only two doctors aboard and few medical supplies to test for or treat COVID-19, and with dwindling food and water, the ship wanders the oceans on an unthinkable journey.
The Ship Fever: Its Causes and Prevention. [A Reprint of a Letter Published in “The Times” on 17 Sept. 1847, Together with the Text of the Act 12 & 13 Vict. C. 23, which Embodied Some of Combe's Suggestions.]
Author: Andrew COMBE
Publisher:
Published: 1850
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Air We Breathe: A Novel
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-10-17
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0393067289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Turbulent and dramatic, full of longing and death and lust, the yearning to cover one’s own life and way in the world." —David Mehegan, Boston Globe An elegant and astute tale of desire and betrayal, science and medicine, from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell) author of Ship Fever, winner of the National Book Award. In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war—but in the town of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. From within their isolated community, they grapple with some of the most thrilling scientific discoveries of their time—X-ray technology, chemical and biological weapons, changing theories of atomic structure—and their limitations. Prisoners of routine, they take solace in gossip, rumor, and, sometimes, secret attachments. When the well-meaning efforts of one enterprising patient lead instead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice. With The Air We Breathe, Andrea Barrett has crafted a "majestic, breathtaking, [and] thrilling" (San Diego Union-Tribune) novel that brilliantly illuminates the inescapable heartbreak of war.
Servants of the Map: Stories
Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2003-02-17
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0393323579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.
Ship of Death
Author: Billy G. Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0300194528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow a ship of British idealists sailed to Africa to end the slave trade but instead ignited a yellow fever pandemic
Ice Ship
Author: Charles W. Johnson
Publisher: ForeEdge from University Press of New England
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1611686040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big questionÑwas the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an ocean covered with ice? No one knew, for the ice had kept its secret well; ships trying to penetrate it all failed, often catastrophically. NorwayÕs charismatic scientist-explorer Fridtjof Nansen, convinced that it was a frozen ocean, intended to prove it in a novel if risky way: by building a ship capable of withstanding the ice, joining others on an expedition, then drifting wherever it took them, on a relentless one-way journey into discovery and fame . . . or oblivion. Ice Ship is the story of that extraordinary ship, the Fram, from conception to construction, through twenty years of three epic expeditions, to its final resting place as a museum. It is also the story of the extraordinary men who steered the Fram over the course of 84,000 miles: on a three-year, ice-bound drift, finding out what the Arctic really was; in a remarkable four-year exploration of unmapped lands in the vast Canadian Arctic; and on a twoÐyear voyage to Antarctica, where another famous Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, claimed the South Pole. Ice Ship will appeal to all those fascinated with polar exploration, maritime adventure, and wooden ships, and will captivate readers of such books as The Endurance, In the Heart of the Sea, and The Last Place on Earth. With more than 100 original photographs, the book brings the Fram to life and light.
Ship It
Author: Britta Lundin
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1368016987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCLAIRE is a sixteen-year-old fangirl obsessed with the show Demon Heart. FOREST is an actor on Demon Heart who dreams of bigger roles. When the two meet at a local Comic-Con panel, it's a dream come true for Claire. Until the Q&A, that is, when Forest laughs off Claire's assertion that his character is gay. Claire is devastated. After all, every last word of her super-popular fanfic revolves around the romance between Forest's character and his male frenemy. She can't believe her hero turned out to be a closed-minded jerk. Forest is mostly confused that anyone would think his character is gay. Because he's not. Definitely not. Unfortunately for Demon Heart, when the video of the disastrous Q&A goes viral, the producers have a PR nightmare on their hands. In order to help bolster their image within the LGBTQ+ community—as well as with their fans—they hire Claire to join the cast for the rest of their publicity tour. What ensues is a series of colorful Comic-Con clashes between the fans and the show that lead Forest to question his assumptions about sexuality and help Claire come out of her shell. But how far will Claire go to make her ship canon? To what lengths will Forest go to stop her and protect his career? And will Claire ever get the guts to make a move on Tess, the very cute, extremely cool fanartist she keeps running into? Ship It is a funny, tender, and honest look at all the feels that come with being a fan.
Fever Season
Author: Jeanette Keith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1608192229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact in Memphis, Tennessee, while noting the heroic efforts of people who remained behind to help.
Plague Ship
Author: Leonard Goldberg
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0738738379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a mysterious illness strikes aboard a luxury Caribbean cruise ship, Dr. David Ballineau and his nurse girlfriend must work to contain the outbreak, even as the mutinous passengers seek to break their quarantine and steer toward land.
