Download or read book Marooned Under the Sea written by Paul Ernst and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yacht Rosa was due to leave the San Francisco harbor in two hours.We were going on some mysterious cruise to the South Seas, the details of which I did not know.""Professor George Berry, the famous zoologist, and myself are going to do some exploring that is hazardous in the extreme,"" Stanley had said. ""For purely mechanical reasons we need a third. You are young and have no family ties, so I thought I'd ask you to go with us. I'd rather not tell you what it's all about until we are on our way.""
Download or read book Keepers of the Sea written by Fred J. Maroon and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the operations, training programs, and tactics of the United States Navy and portrays its warships, aircraft, and submarines
Download or read book Maroons and the Marooned written by Richard Bodek and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative juxtaposition of escaped slaves and the shipwrecked across the Americas
Download or read book Marooned in Realtime written by Vernor Vinge and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it's obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It's up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man. Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge's tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Marooned written by Christie Golden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an alien pirate abducts Kes, U.S.S. Voyager takes off in hot pursuit, but the first rescue mission fails disastrously; an ion storm forces the shuttle to crash on an unknown world. Now Captain Janeway and her Away Team must embark on a hazardous trek through a hostile environment in search of a way off the planet, while Voyager, commanded by Chakotay, confronts an enemy fleet in the depths of space.
Download or read book Marooned in the Arctic written by Peggy Caravantes and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017 In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Great Britain. With the men was a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son. Conditions soon turned dire for the team when they were unable to kill enough game to survive. Three of the men tried to cross the frozen Chukchi Sea for help but were never seen again, leaving Ada with one remaining team member who soon died of scurvy. Determined to be reunited with her son, Ada learned to survive alone in the icy world by trapping foxes, catching seals, and avoiding polar bears. After she was finally rescued in August 1923, after two years total on the island, Ada became a celebrity, with newspapers calling her a real "female Robinson Crusoe." The first young adult book about Blackjack's remarkable story, Marooned in the Arctic includes sidebars on relevant topics of interest to teens, including the use cats on ships, the phenomenon known as Arctic hysteria, and aspects of Inuit culture and beliefs. With excerpts from diaries, letters, and telegrams; historic photos; a map; source notes; and a bibliography, this is an indispensible resource for any young adventure lover, classroom, or library.
Download or read book Marooned with Very Little Beer written by Graham Mackintosh and published by Baja Detour Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the author's two-month stay on Isla Angel de la Guarda in the Gulf of California, Baja, Mexico.
Download or read book Marooned on Mogmog written by Jennifer Barrie and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was against all Mogs! The incredible true story of a modern day Australian family shipwrecked on the tiny island of Mogmog in Micronesia. 'It all ended with a shipwreck. ten years of planning, dreaming, plotting and scheming - gone in one night. Who even heard of shipwrecks these days? this is the 21st century, not the 1800s. But, happen it did, to a modern, mostly normal family from Western Australia. Now, home is a remote island in Micronesia that Lonely Planet states is inhabited by some of the world's most remote people - and us. Our beloved boat, Windrider, is now seated indecorously on the coral beach with her bum ripped out, rudders bent through ninety degrees, engines out and systems largely rendered useless. the morning after, we sat on the beach looking at our boat. Was this the end? Could something be salvaged? Andrew has a saying - actually he has lots - but this one is that it is possible to eat an elephant as long as you do it one bite at a time. So we set about our elephant, hoping we weren't going to get stomped on.' With a combined boating experience of sixty-five years, Jennifer Barrie and her husband Andrew were confident that they were unlikely to hit any major snags after setting out on their dream voyage - sailing their beloved Windrider around the Pacific. In early 2010, Jennifer and Andrew, along with their two young daughters, washed up - literally - on the tiny island of Mogmog in Micronesia. Fortunately for the Barrie family, Mogmog is inhabited by a bunch of very friendly locals...or at least that's what they initially thought! this is the true story of a modern day Swiss Family Robinson who lived to tell the tale of surviving a shipwreck and months stranded on one of the world's most remote islands. In Marooned on Mogmog, you'll see that paradise isn't always what it seems...
Download or read book Marooned written by Joseph Kelly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled “shining city on a hill.” Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering a cautionary tale of lazy louts hunted gold till they starved and shiftless settlers who had to be rescued by English food and the hard discipline of martial law. Neither story is true. In Marooned, Joseph Kelly re-examines the history of Jamestown and comes to a radically different and decidedly American interpretation of these first Virginians. In this gripping account of shipwrecks and mutiny in America's earliest settlements, Kelly argues that the colonists at Jamestown were literally and figuratively marooned, cut loose from civilization, and cast into the wilderness. The British caste system meant little on this frontier: those who wanted to survive had to learn to work and fight and intermingle with the nearby native populations. Ten years before the Mayflower Compact and decades before Hobbes and Locke, they invented the idea of government by the people. 150 years before Jefferson, the colonists discovered the truth that all men were equal. The epic origin of America was not an exodus and a fledgling theocracy. It is a tale of shipwrecked castaways of all classes marooned in the wilderness fending for themselves in any way they could--a story that illuminates who we are as a nation today.
Download or read book Marooned in Africa written by Marie Pierce Weber and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marooned in Africa is an exciting adventure set in the wild and untamed forests of West Africa. A young female biologist is separated from her group, and is storm-tossed on the Expedition yacht into a huge tidal basin, alone. Paula goes ashore to explore, where she is seen and followed by natives, who capture her and take her far inland to be a trophy wife for their chief. Subjected to ritual combat for status, she knows mutilation will soon follow if she does not escape. Once into the forest, she becomes disoriented and follows the wrong trail, ending up on a hillside full of lion dens. Unaware that she is being followed and also stalked, she is confronted by lions and within moments of becoming dinner, is saved by a lone traveler. The journey back to the cove is enlivened by animal encounters, and campfire stories that take her back to times long gone with glimpses into the unknown and savage secrets of Africa. Along the way a unique relationship develops with the man who saved her from the lions, but neither one wants to be the first to express their feelings, until an unexpected decision is made and changes everything.
Download or read book Marooned in the Creeks written by J. H. O. Olowe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Joshua Olowe earned his bachelor's degree in 1978, he took part in the compulsory National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) program in Nigeria. Along with his teaching partner, Samuel, Joshua served for one year in the Koloama District in the Niger Delta area as an English teacher. But though he set out to make a difference in the lives of members of the community, he encountered debilitating setbacks. Filled with rich detail and intense emotion, Marooned in the Creeks tells one man's story of navigating the challenges, joys, and opportunities of being a social and geographic transplant into an unfamiliar world. Olowe shares how his work within the small Ijaw community of Ukubie along the Akpoi creek offered him firsthand knowledge of the hardship and travails these people endured, and mirrored his own strategies and struggles he adopted to survive. Despite disliking his post and having no chance to relocate, Olowe decided to make the best of the situation. He formed an incredibly close bond with the place and the people, and found attitudes far different from his own. He details his confrontations with the school principal, his love affair with the intriguing Ebitonye, and the strange inner workings of the village itself. A compelling narrative, Marooned in the Creeks reveals how a single eye-opening experience can forever change our perception on life.
Download or read book Stone Age Science Fiction Stories from the Past written by Robert Moore Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time and walk with Dinosaurs and Cavemen with stories to excite your Imagination. Most modern contemporary Dinosaur fiction came directly from the golden era especially from the minds of the best pulp fiction writers. Showcased here are stories from the best writers of the genre and the best magazines such as AMAZING STORIES, FANTASTIC ADVENTURES, and WONDER STORIES some of which include: 1.....The Lost Warship. A WW2 Battleship is thrust into a Ancient past and a world of the Reptiles. 2.....One Prehistoric Night. Visiting Aliens attempt to colonize Ancient Earth and encounter Prehistoric Monsters. 3.....Blitzkreig in the Past. A WW2 Tank goes back in time and encounters a strange land of Prehistoric Monsters and Cavemen. A thrilling, suspenseful novel you don't want to miss!
Download or read book The 22nd Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK Robert Moore Williams written by Robert Moore Williams and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Moore Williams (1907–1977) was an American writer, primarily of science fiction. He wrote not only under his own name, but as John S. Browning, H. H. Hermon, Russell Storm and E. K. Jarvis (a house name shared with other writers). Rereading his work in preparation for assembling this volume, we were impressed by how well much of his fiction holds up today. His writing style is smooth and crisp, and he avoids scientific lectures, preferring to let the plots speak for himself. Included in this volume are: PLANET OF THE GODS THE NEXT TIME WE DIE SINISTER PARADISE THOMPSON'S CAT PUBLICITY STUNT MARTIAN ADVENTURE BRIDGE OF LIFE BE IT EVER THUS THE LOST WARSHIP THE ACCIDENTAL MURDERS If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 250+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Download or read book The Buccaneer s Realm written by Benerson Little and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1674, it is three years since Henry Morgan’s pirates sacked Panama. England is now at peace with Spain, and soon France, Holland, and Spain will briefly be at peace among themselves. But soon buccaneers and their French counterparts, the filibusters, will seize the opportunity of material gain presented by the far-flung and failing Spanish Empire. And Spain will produce its own notorious pirates, whose depredations against the English and French will become legend. These men of opportunistic calculation and desperate courage live in a wilder, larger, and richer time and place than any other frontier in modern history—the Spanish Main. Unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, unabashedly, they will take to the peaceful seas for riches by force of arms. The world will witness piracy on a grand scale. While Benerson Little’s previous work showed brilliantly how pirates actually plied their trade, The Buccaneer’s Realm focuses on their cultural and physical environments. It describes not merely their deeds but their world—the New World of the Spanish Main and its many peoples, freedoms, dangers, and exploits that are the foundation of the Americas. A detailed and lively description of pirate life, it will especially appeal to readers with an interest in maritime, naval, military, and colonial history, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and armchair adventurers.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400 1800 written by Claire Jowitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been nominated for The Mountbatten Award for Best Book in the Maritime Media Awards 2021. The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field. Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oceanic ‘mastery’ during the early modern period have been replaced by newer global ideas. This comprehensive volume challenges underlying assumptions by balancing its assessment of the consequences and accomplishments of European navigators in the era of Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan, with an awareness of the sophistication and maritime expertise in Asia, the Arab world, and the Americas. By imparting riveting new stories and global perceptions of maritime history and culture, the contributors provide readers with fresh insights concerning early modern entanglements between humans and the vast, unpredictable ocean. With maritime studies growing and the ocean’s health in decline, this volume is essential reading for academics and students interested in the historicization of the ocean and the ways early modern cultures both conceptualized and utilized seas.
Download or read book The Founding of English America written by John May and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1577, John Dee, a scientist who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, proposed to her the creation of colonies in the New World. Neither Elizabeth nor Walter Raleigh imagined the task would be so difficult or take more than 30 years. The effort started with an exploration of the coast of today's North Carolina and the settlement of a colony on Roanoke Island in 1585. This ended tragically and became known as The Lost Colony, its fate a mystery to this day. James I resumed the effort with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 on an island in the James River in today's Virginia. This book relates the histories of the Roanoke and Jamestown colonies to enable a full understanding of the founding of English America. Important events in America's beginnings, including the wreck of the Sea Venture (which inspired William Shakespeare's The Tempest), the Algonquin chief Powhatan's plans to make the newcomers useful to him, and the relationship between Pocahontas and English Captain John Smith are highlighted.
Download or read book This Luminous Coast written by Jules Pretty and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks.East Anglia's coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region's cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world.
