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Author: Dougal Robertson
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780924486739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an account of a British family's 37-day fight to survive the perils of the Pacific after their schooner is attacked and sunk by killer whales.
Author: JoAnn Wendt
Publisher: Belgrave House
Published: 2011-07-05
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1610845560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdwinna Crawford would inherit the Barbados plantation if she found a man to marry in the next twenty-four hours. Within her sight Drake Steel, handsome and defiant, was shackled waist-deep in the sea, about to be executed as a pirate. Marrying him would save his life—and could provide her with an intoxicating passion. But it was a bargain with the devil…Historical Romance by JoAnn Wendt; originally published by Popular Library
Author: Maud Fontenoy
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-01-04
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 161145106X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last century only six men had defied the power of nature and successfully rowed across the Atlantic from west to east. Maud Fontenoy, a 2005 Time (Europe) Hero, changed that forever when she became the first woman to do so. In 2003 Fontenoy, a young woman and seasoned mariner, set out from Newfoundland in her twenty-four-foot-long boat, Pilot, to row across the North Atlantic. Her goal: to prove that a woman could do what men once believed to be impossible. It became a journey both far more harrowing than even she had imagined and one full of unexpected wonders. Her extraordinary story continues to inspire.
Author: William Sarabande
Publisher: Domain
Published: 1987-11-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0553268899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStunningly visual, extraordinarily detailed, powerfully dramatic, here is the first volume of a remarkable new series . . . The First Americans. When humans first walked the world, when nature ruled the earth and sky, a proud tribe is threatened by a series of natural disasters. A bold young hunter named Torka, who lost his wife and child to a killer mammoth, leads the survivors over the glacial tundra on a desperate eastward odyssey to the save their clan. Through attacks of savage animals and encounters with strangers not unlike themselves, they must brave the hardships of a foreign landscape and learn to live in an exotic new world of mystery and danger. They must travel toward the land where the sun rises for a new day for their clan—and an awesome future for the American.
Author: Douglas Robertson
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1574092065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDouglas Robertson spent his first 16 years as a farmer's son in England before sailing with his family on their 43-foot schooner Lucette.
Author: A. P. Walston
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781737389118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn archaeologist with a secret. Three years had trickled by since Anna accomplished the impossible. Three years of avoiding Briland high society, toiling away in ancient ruins among the dead. But when her brother is detained by marshals, Anna jumps at the chance for another fast-paced adventure. A pirate longing for home. Trevor had tasted nothing but frustration and disappointment in his search for a stolen map. Unable to return without it, an opportunity finally presents itself in the form of a naval captain's arrest. A naval captain caught in the middle. If Markus had known possession of the Pirate King's map would be this much trouble, he would have told Anna to burn it all those years ago. Despite being the key to clearing his name, the map is the least of his concerns. Not with Anna and her mysterious companion dancing around their mutual attraction. With their rescue attempt behind them, Anna learns the only way to truly save Markus involves the map she stole from the Pirate King. Forging their way through the desert and straight to the Briland capital, Anna finds herself fighting more than feelings of distrust for their new companion. Success hinges on their ability to work together, and with Markus's life hanging in the balance, failure isn't an option.
Author: Roz Savage
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-10-06
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1416583602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSTUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life's savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race. Her 3,000-mile trial by sea became the challenge of a lifetime. Of the twenty-six crews that set out from La Gomera, six capsized or sank and didn't make it to the finish line in Antigua. There were times when she thought she had hit her absolute limit, but alone in the middle of the ocean, she had no choice but to find the strength to carry on. In Rowing the Atlantic we are brought on board when Savage's dreams of feasts are nourished by yet another freeze-dried meal. When her gloves wear through to her blistered hands. When her headlamp is the only light on a pitch-black night ocean that extends indefinitely in all directions. When, one by one, all four of her oars break. When her satellite communication fails. Stroke by stroke, Savage discovers there is so much more to life than a fancy sports car and a power-suit job. Flashing back to key moments from her life before rowing, she describes the bolt from the blue that first inspired her to row across oceans and how this crazy idea evolved from a dream into a tendinitis-inducing reality. And finally, Savage discovers in the rough waters of the Atlantic the kind of happiness we all hope to find.
Author: JoAnn Wendt
Publisher: Belgrave House
Published:
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 1610844564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlavia, Duchess of Tewksbury, knew that her husband would destroy her, as he had his previous wives, if she failed to produce a child for him. Her one chance was to spend a night with a stranger from the New World, Captain Garth McNeil, in hopes that she would conceive. That one night produced not only a son, but a fierce love that saw her through devastating consequences. Historical Romance by JoAnn Wendt; originally published by Warner
Author: Neil Swidey
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2015-02-17
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0307886735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.
Author: Roz Savage
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1401942636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2007, Roz Savage set out to row 8,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean—alone. Despite having successfully rowed across the Atlantic the previous year, the Pacific presented the former office worker with unprecedented challenges and overpowering currents—both in the water and within herself. Crossing Earth’s largest ocean alone might seem a long way removed from everyday life, yet the lessons Roz learned about the inner journey, the ocean, and the world are relevant to all of us. She shares tales of the ups and downs of her voyage across the waves, while offering insights on how to find happiness through a meaningful and rewarding life.
