Download or read book The Death of Captain Cook and Other Writings written by David Samwell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No aspect of the voyages of Captain Cook have been more controversial than Cook's death. This book reprints one of the classic accounts of this episode, the vivid and lively narrative by one of the voyage surgeons, David Samwell. Introductory essays contextualize Samwell's contribution within this period of Pacific maritime history.
Download or read book The Death of Captain Cook written by Glyndwr Williams and published by Profile Books(GB). This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captain Cook's enduring claim to fame is that in three extraordinary voyages to the Pacific he redrew the map of the world. The news that reached London in 1780 of his death on a beach in Hawai'i the previous year was shocking, and the details of that bloody and chaotic fracas had to be turned into something nobler as befitted a martyr-hero." "This new interpretation of Cook's life and death argues that the circumstances and reporting of his death are the key to his reputation. For many years this seaman of humble origins enjoyed unparalleled status as 'the pride of his century', and in the white settlement colonies in the Pacific he became 'father of the nation'. By contrast, first in Hawai'i and then in the postcolonial world, a different view emerged of a destructive invader, more anti-hero than hero. Captain Cook's progress from obscurity to fame and then, for some, to infamy, is a story that has never been fully told."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Captain s Death Bed Other Essays written by Virginia Woolf and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. "This book contains...the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading" (Katherine Anne Porter). Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Download or read book Captain Dead Man written by Wendy Meadows and published by Majestic Owl Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-famous boat race, heated rivalries, and a murderer determined to win at all costs. With the highly anticipated boat races right around the corner, the usually calm and cozy town of Sweetfern Harbor is bustling with summer activity. The trio of leading Captains bring with them a cohort of fans, and all three are fiercely competitive and determined to win. But when one of the Captains turns up dead inside his boat, the entire race is thrown into chaos. The organizers are adamant the race go ahead… but after a suspicious accident sinks the dead man’s boat – and all of its evidence – to the bottom of the sea, Brenda soon finds herself roped into another murder investigation. With no evidence in sight and no shortage of possible saboteurs, Brenda must root out the killer who sent the late Captain to Davy Jones. Proving this crime will be no easy task, and Brenda will need to stay one step ahead if she wants the murderer to face justice… Capturing all the lighthearted mystery of a classic who-dun-it adventure, Brenda’s next puzzling case is a fun and cozy read that will keep you guessing until the very end. If you love to lose yourself in picturesque beachside towns, then the Sweetfern Harbor series is for you.
Download or read book The Captain of All These Men of Death written by Alejandro Morales and published by Bilingual Review Press (AZ). This book was released on 2008 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Contreras attempts to enlist in World War II, his medical exam reveals he has tuberculosis and he is committed to a frightful sanatorium. Amid his relapses and recoveries he meets a series of women who have an effect on his life: a mysterious French doctor, another patient, a sinister acquaintance from a Los Angeles barrio. Meanwhile, the hospital newsletter describes how tuberculosis patients have been treated throughout history, often alienated and administered bizarre treatments. The author equates these to modern medical experimentation and the superstitious pagan practices of witchcraft and satanism of the California barrios. Based on a true story of the author's uncle.
Download or read book The Death of Captain America written by Ed Brubaker and published by Marvel Enterprises. This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War ends, the Winter Soldier finally chooses a side--his own--but the Red Skull and his minions are up to something behind the scenes.
Download or read book Naval Yarns of Sea Fights and Wrecks Pirates and Privateers from 1616 1831 written by William H. Long and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Death of Captain Stacy written by Stan Lee and published by Marvel Comics Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Peter Parker lost the first great love of his life, her father fell toone of Spider-Man's greatest adversaries. This is the story of Captain GeorgeStacy and the dying wish he made to Spider-Man.
Download or read book The Death of Captain Stacey written by Stan Lee and published by Panini. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Peter Parker lost the first great love of his life, her father fell toone of Spider-Man's greatest adversaries. This is the story of Captain GeorgeStacy and the dying wish he made to Spider-Man.
Download or read book Captain of Death written by Thomas M. Daniel and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuberculosis was once the feared "White Plague." Today, with sanatoria closed and a battery of drugs available to fight it, TB may seem to be on the way out. The grim facts tell a different story. Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis recounts the early evidence of the disease, the stories of some noteable people who suffered from it, the work of those who cared for afflicted patients, and the struggle of researchers to understand it and develop effective treatments for it. The book brings to the reader a clear understanding of the past, present, and future of the disease John Bunyon called "Captain among these Men of Death" in 1660.
Download or read book The Life and Death of Captain Marvel written by Jim Starlin and published by Marvel Comics Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary cosmic warrior called Captain Marvel was an agent of the alien Kree, humanoid beings who commanded a galaxy-spanning empire. While stationed on Earth, Mar-Vell's sympathy for the planet's people caused him to disobey a direct order. His punishment: death! Escaping execution, Mar-Veil found himself stranded in the Negative Zone, an anti-matter universe existing alongside Earth. There, he telepathically contacted Rick Jones -- previously a companion of the Incredible Hulk, the most powerful man-like creature ever to walk the Earth, and Captain America, star-spangled Sentinel of Liberty. Mar-Vell instructed the teenager to don a pair of extraterrestrial bracelets -- and when Rick slammed the golden Nega-Bands together with all his might, his atoms traded places with those of the exiled Kree. The hero materialized on Earth, while Rick was surrounded by a protective aura that allowed him to survive in the Negative Zone. Captain Marvel wielded his cosmic powers in defense of the galaxy ... and Earth, his adopted homeworld. But after many an awesome adventure and countless victories, Mar-Vell's exposure to a carcinogenic nerve gas took its toll. Ultimately, he succumbed to the one enemy he proved unable to defeat: an incurable systemic cancer. Mar-Vell died not on the field of battle, but on a sickbed -- surrounded by an awesome assemblage of adventurers, gathered to pay tribute to the legacy of their fallen friend!
Download or read book Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour written by Marti Rulli and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking true crime story of a beloved Hollywood star gone too soon—told by the captain of the boat on which Natalie Wood spent her last night. Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the long‐awaited, detailed account of events that led to the mysterious death of Hollywood legend Natalie Wood off the coast of Catalina Island on November 28, 1981. It is a story told by a haunted witness to that fateful evening: Dennis Davern, the young captain of Splendour, the yacht belonging to Wood and husband Robert Wagner. Davern initially backed up Wagner’s version of that evening’s events through a signed statement prepared by attorneys. But Davern’s guilt over failing Natalie tormented him. Davern reached out to his old friend Marti Rulli, and little by little, at his own emotional pace, he revealed the details of his years in Wood’s employ, of the fateful weekend that Natalie died, and of the events following her death that prevented him from telling the whole story—until now.
Download or read book Captain Death written by and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Death of Captain Marvel Gallery Edition written by Jim Starlin and published by Marvel Universe. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the life and honor the death of one of the Marvel Universe's greatest heroes, as a classic tale is presented in the full cosmic scale of a gallery edition! The Kree warrior Mar-Vell has triumphed over foes large and small. But when he is diagnosed with cancer, Mar-Vell finds himself face-to-face with an enemy that even his vast might can't defeat - and both he and a universe that loves him must rally together to accept the inevitable. The industry-changing graphic novel is presented alongside Mar-Vell's formative adventures, a portentous battle with Nitro and Mar-Vell's budding romance with his true love, Elysius! Guest-starring the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and more! Collects MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1967) #12-13, CAPTAIN MARVEL (1968) #1 and #34, MARVEL SPOTLIGHT (1979) #1-2 and MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL #1: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARVEL.
Download or read book Death of a Hero written by John Parker and published by Metro Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Robert Nairac was a brilliantly successful undercover operative in the British Army, with a string of intelligence coups in the war against the IRA. But, until this book, the nature of his operations and the story of his betrayal and murder have remained shrouded in mystery. John Parker - author of a bestselling official history of the Special Boat Section - has obtained unprecedented co-operation from very senior Army sources, and from Nairac's friends and family, to reveal the truth behind the secret war in Northern Ireland - and the ferocious rivalry between MI5 and MI6 that contributed to Nairac's death. This book is a tribute to the heroism of Nairac and all those in Northern Ireland who gave their lives in the battle against terrorism.
Download or read book Captain America written by and published by Marvel. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Rogers is dead! Long live Captain America! He was a hero to millions, an inspiration to America's armed services and the representative of his nation's greatest ideals. He lived for his country - and now, he has given his last final measure for the nation he loved. In the aftermath of the superhuman Civil War, Captain America was shot down in cold blood. In the aftermath of his death, Cap's longtime partner the Falcon makes revenge his first order of business. Sharon Carter finds herself spiraling out of control, a captive of the Red Skull's minions. And Bucky Barnes, a.k.a. the Winter Soldier, must reconcile his own sordid past with the calling to become...the new Captain America! COLLECTING: Captain America (2005) 22-42, Winter Soldier : Winter Kills
Download or read book Freedom and Death written by Nikos Kazantzakes and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
