"The Duel on the Beach" is a seafaring adventure novel by the famed Anglo-Italian author Rafael Sabatini. Like the author's earlier book 'Captain Blood', it focuses on piracy in the seventeenth century Caribbean. When Major Sands left Barbados after the death of the governor, Sir John Harradine, he had every reason to congratulate himself that the fortune which he had gone overseas to seek was at last within his reach. For homing with him on the fine ship Centaur was the late governor's daughter, sole heiress to the considerable wealth which Sir John had amassed during his term of office. The long voyage before them with its constant association must afford him opportunities of contriving that the lady and her fortune should be contracted to him by the time they reached Plymouth. But when a French naval officer Monsieur de Bernis takes an interest in the young lady, a collision between the two men is inevitable...
J. D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," John Cheever's "Goodbye, My Brother," Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel": These and dozens of other beloved stories share the beach as their setting. In fact, it is remarkable how many of the finest writers have set stories and novels in whole or in part at the beach -- and how often they use this locale to explore the great themes of love, loss, death, family, and redemption. Beach brings together, for the first time, the very best of this literary tradition, including stories, novel excerpts, and narrative nonfiction.
Rear Admiral Edward Baxter Billingsley's book, The Emmons Saga, captures the deck plate routine of the Sailors aboard Emmons as she intersected with the great events of World War II and influenced the course of history. Any reader who has ever served afloat will recognize the authenticity of every detail, and will appreciate the complex relationship of an individual ship with war and diplomacy. This is a history of brave men ? members of "the greatest generation" ? who operated in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of World War II. Admiral Billingsley provides us a microcosm of World War II naval warfare, spanning the Battle of the Atlantic, the North African Campaign, the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of Okinawa. Historic facts and colorful sea-stories depict life aboard a naval combatant and illuminate the bonds of friendship and trust that developed among this group of young, inexperienced, and untested youth. As members of that "special" generation pass on at a rate of over 1,000 each day, it is important that the virtues and sacrifice that they epitomize be remembered by future generations of Americans. USS EMMONS rose from the depths of obscurity in 2001 when her gravesite was discovered off the shores of Okinawa and charted by American recreational divers. Her rediscovery has focused renewed interest both in the United States and Japan into the character of the American youth of that generation. The Emmons Saga, originally published a decade and a half ago, has been revised and up-dated, and it deserves a place of honor on the bookshelf of every maritime historian and lover of the sea. RADM Jacob L. Shuford, USNB President, Naval War College
Sir Redmond Barry was the pre-eminent figure in Melbourne of the middle years of last century. A Supreme Court judge for thirty years, he was the founding and sustaining force behind the University of Melbourne, the Supreme Court Library, the Public Library, the National Gallery and the Museum. As social and cultural benefactor, he stands alone. Paradox pervaded his life. While seen by many as a hidebound, even villainous judge, his trust in the rule of law underpinned, for example, an unusually sympathetic and active response to the Aboriginal people. Yet fear of losing social standing and his Irish family's esteem blinkered him to injustice on his own doorstep. The story of his unacknowledged relationship of thirty years with Louisa Barrow, and of their four illegitimate children, is perplexing and often painful in the telling. This important biography is long overdue.
Get smarter on the sun! Whether that be on the beach or in the deck chair on your terrace or backyard. _x000D_ The Harvard Classics in 51 volumes include the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In addition – there are 20 volumes of the greatest works of fiction. _x000D_ Content:_x000D_ The Harvard Classics:_x000D_ V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn_x000D_ V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius_x000D_ V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne_x000D_ V. 4: John Milton_x000D_ V. 5: R. W. Emerson_x000D_ V. 6: Robert Burns_x000D_ V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis_x000D_ V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas _x000D_ V. 9: Cicero and Pliny_x000D_ V. 10: The Wealth of Nations_x000D_ V. 11: The Origin of Species_x000D_ V. 12: Plutarchs_x000D_ V. 13: Æneid_x000D_ V. 14: Don Quixote_x000D_ V. 15: Bunyan & Walton_x000D_ V. 16: 1001 Nights_x000D_ V. 17: Folklore & Fable_x000D_ V. 18: Modern English Drama_x000D_ V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe_x000D_ V. 20: The Divine Comedy_x000D_ V. 21: I Promessi Sposi_x000D_ V. 22: The Odyssey_x000D_ V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast_x000D_ V. 24: Edmund Burke_x000D_ V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle_x000D_ V. 26: Continental Drama_x000D_ V. 27 & 28: English & American Essays_x000D_ V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle_x000D_ V. 30: Scientific Papers_x000D_ V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini_x000D_ V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays_x000D_ V. 33: Voyages & Travels_x000D_ V. 34: French & English Philosophers_x000D_ V. 35: Chronicle and Romance_x000D_ V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther_x000D_ V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume_x000D_ V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur_x000D_ V. 39: Prologues_x000D_ V. 40–42: English Poetry_x000D_ V. 43: American Historical Documents_x000D_ V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings_x000D_ V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama_x000D_ V. 48: Blaise Pascal_x000D_ V. 49: Saga_x000D_ V. 50: Reader's Guide_x000D_ V. 51: Lectures_x000D_ The Shelf of Fiction:_x000D_ V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones_x000D_ V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice _x000D_ V. 4: Guy Mannering_x000D_ V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair_x000D_ V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield_x000D_ V. 9: The Mill on the Floss_x000D_ V. 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale_x000D_ V.11: The Portrait of a Lady_x000D_ V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris_x000D_ V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant_x000D_ V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane_x000D_ V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev_x000D_ V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland
