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Book From a Watery Grave

Download or read book From a Watery Grave written by James E. Bruseth and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the discovery and excavation of the French ship La Belle, shipwrecked in 1686 in Matagorda Bay, Texas.

Book Sun Had Set in Its Crimson Bed

Download or read book Sun Had Set in Its Crimson Bed written by A. B. E. and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Watery Grave

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  • Author : Richard Osborne
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2015-10-30
  • ISBN : 1473845866
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book The Watery Grave written by Richard Osborne and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002 the wreck of a British cruiser was located by divers off the coast of Tunisia. The stunning photographs of the wreck inspired Dr Richard Osborne to delve into the controversy surrounding the loss of one of the Royal Navy's proudest ships HMS Manchester. After taking part in the Norway campaign of 1940, Manchester was sent to the Mediterranean, where she was involved in the dangerous Malta convoys. On her first convoy she was struck by a torpedo and badly damaged. In danger of sinking at any minute, her skipper, Captain Harold Drew, managed to save his ship.Her next operation was to prove her last. In Operation Pedestal, the vital Malta relief convoy, Manchester was again hit by a torpedo. This time, rather than risk the lives of his crew Drew decided to scuttle his ship. For this Drew was court-martialled in what would become the longest such case in the history of the Royal Navy.Using the testimony of those involved, the highly respected naval historian Dr Osborne pieces together one of the most intriguing stories to emerge from the Second World War. Coupled with photographs of the wreck and a detailed account of its discovery, The Watery Grave: The Life and Death of HMS Manchester, will shed new light on this remarkable tale.

Book Watery Grave

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  • Author : Bruce Alexander
  • Publisher : Putnam Adult
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780399141553
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Watery Grave written by Bruce Alexander and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the case of a grisly murder on one of His Majesty's frigates, the blind magistrate Sir John Fielding and his aide Jeremy Proctor discover that some secrets are better left at the bottom of a "Watery Grave".

Book A Watery Grave

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  • Author : Joan Druett
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2013-10-22
  • ISBN : 1466855002
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book A Watery Grave written by Joan Druett and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Exploring Expedition is set to launch into uncharted waters from the coast of Virginia. A convoy of seven ships filled with astronomers, mapmakers, naturalists, and the sailors charged with getting them around the world, the "Ex. Ex." is finally underway, with much fanfare. Aboard the convoy as ship's linguist is Wiki Coffin. Half New Zealand Maori and half American, Wiki speaks numerous languages and is expected to help the crew navigate the Pacific islands that are his native heritage. But just before departure Wiki, subject to the unfortunate bigotry of the time, is arrested for a vicious murder he didn't commit. The convoy sails off, but just before the ships are out of reach Wiki is exonerated, set free to catch up with his ship and sail on. The catch: the local sheriff is convinced that the real murderer is aboard one of the seven ships of the expedition, and Wiki is deputized to identify the killer and bring him to justice. Full of the evocative maritime detail and atmosphere that have won her numerous awards for her nonfiction, Joan Druett's A Watery Grave is the mystery debut of a masterful maritime writer.

Book A Watery Grave

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  • Author : P. Klime
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780340648476
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book A Watery Grave written by P. Klime and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Watery Grave

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  • Author : Joseph Trainor
  • Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780440994190
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Watery Grave written by Joseph Trainor and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is she bound forever to Neptune's ancient curse.

Book Water Graves

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  • Author : Valérie Loichot
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2020-01-15
  • ISBN : 0813943809
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Water Graves written by Valérie Loichot and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Graves considers representations of lives lost to water in contemporary poetry, fiction, theory, mixed-media art, video production, and underwater sculptures. From sunken slave ships to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Valérie Loichot investigates the lack of official funeral rites in the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, waters that constitute both early and contemporary sites of loss for the enslaved, the migrant, the refugee, and the destitute. Unritual, or the privation of ritual, Loichot argues, is a state more absolute than desecration. Desecration implies a previous sacred observance--a temple, a grave, a ceremony. Unritual, by contrast, denies the sacred from the beginning. In coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Miami, Haiti, Martinique, Cancun, and Trinidad and Tobago, the artists and writers featured in Water Graves—an eclectic cast that includes Beyoncé, Radcliffe Bailey, Edwidge Danticat, Édouard Glissant, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jason deCaires Taylor, Édouard Duval-Carrié, Natasha Trethewey, and Kara Walker, among others—are an archipelago connected by a history of the slave trade and environmental vulnerability. In addition to figuring death by drowning in the unritual—whether in the context of the aftermath of slavery or of ecological and human-made catastrophes—their aesthetic creations serve as memorials, dirges, tombstones, and even material supports for the regrowth of life underwater.

Book A Watery Grave

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  • Author : Heather Beck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780986556951
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A Watery Grave written by Heather Beck and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Watery Grave

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  • Author : Bruce Alexander
  • Publisher : Berkley
  • Release : 1997-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780425160367
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Watery Grave written by Bruce Alexander and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third adventure, Sir John Fielding returns in his most baffling case yet. His stepson returns from high seas with tales of storms and a captain overboard. Was it an accident, or was it murder? Fielding is asked to investigate, but discovers considerably more than he'd bargained for. Filled with the authentic sights and sounds of eighteenth-century London, and with a supremely colorful and varied cast of characters, Watery Grave is in every way a delight to read. "Fielding's detection . . . is first-rate. And the period ambiance is both original and persuasive." (The Boston Globe)

Book The Watery Grave

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  • Author : Reginald Orton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1867
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The Watery Grave written by Reginald Orton and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Watery Grave in Yellowstone

Download or read book A Watery Grave in Yellowstone written by Raymond N. Kieft and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pursuit of her dream to view grizzly bears in the wild, the daughter of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court is escorted into a remote area of northwest Yellowstone National Park by Beth Richardson, Associate Superintendent of Yellowstone. When the unexpected happens, former university president Parker Williams, owner of the Gold Medal Fly-Fishing Shop in West Yellowstone, Montana, is reluctantly drawn into a search and rescue mission which increasingly seems hopeless. Meanwhile, a pending vote by the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court on a controversial issue of national and historic proportions is playing out in Washington, D.C. Influenced by happenings in Yellowstone and orchestrated by a secretive organization headquartered in Idaho bent on changing the direction of the country, the vote of one justice means life or death unless Parker and Beth Richardson can accomplish the seemingly impossible. The involvement of an investigative reporter for The Washington Post and the participation of the FBI bring an unexpected twist to their mission. A Watery Grave in Yellowstone is the fourth novel in the Yellowstone Mystery Series. All are set against the backdrop of the wonder and splendor of Yellowstone National Park, our nations premiere national park. As with the previous three novels, all royalties and proceeds for the sale of A Watery Grave in Yellowstone are shared equally between two national charitable organizations: Habitat for Humanity and Compassion International. No royalties are retained by the author. Readers wishing to learn more about these charities are referred to their respective websites.

Book Wet Grave

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  • Author : Barbara Hambly
  • Publisher : Bantam
  • Release : 2003-04-29
  • ISBN : 0553897535
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Wet Grave written by Barbara Hambly and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In such stunning novels of crime and character as Die Upon a Kiss, Sold Down the River, and A Free Man of Color, Benjamin January tracked down killers through the sensuous, atmospheric, dangerously beautiful world of Old New Orleans. Now, in this new novel by bestselling author Barbara Hambly, he follows a trail of murder from illicit back alleys to glittering mansions to a dark place where the oldest and deadliest secrets lie buried . . . Wet Grave It’s 1835 and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros--once a corsair’s jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag--is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans’s most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at a demimonde banquet years ago. Who would want to kill this woman now--Hessy, they said, would turn a trick for a bottle of rum--had some quarrelsome “customer” decided to do away with her? Or could it be one of the sexual predators who roamed the dark and seedy streets? Or--as Benjamin comes to suspect--was her killer someone she knew, someone whose careful search of her shack suggests a cold-blooded crime? Someone whose boot left a chillingly distinctive print . . . His inquiries at taverns, markets, and slave dances reveal little about “Hellfire Hessy” since her glory days in Barataria Bay, once the lair of gentlemen pirates. Then the murder is swept from his mind by the delivery of a crate filled with contraband rifles--and yet another telltale boot print left by its claimant. When a murder swiftly follows, Ben and Rose Vitrac, the woman he loves, fear the workings of a serpentine mind and a treacherous plot: one only they can hope to thwart in time. All too soon they are fugitives of color in the stormy bayous and marshes of slave-stealer country, headed for smugglers’ haunts and sinister plantations, where one false step could be their last toward a...Wet Grave.

Book The Watery Grave

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  • Author : Charles Dibdin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1790
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2 pages

Download or read book The Watery Grave written by Charles Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Case of the Watery Grave  Detective

Download or read book The Case of the Watery Grave Detective written by Anne Schraff and published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anson Ledyard, a computer multi-millionaire has vanished! Is his young wife responsible? Or maybe his eldest son was afraid he would lose his inheritance? Ledyard’s luxury car turns up in a crocodile-infested swamp. Bob Pasquale of the Drake Detective Agency sets out to investigate. Written specifically for struggling readers to explore genres, like mysteries and science fiction, these fast-paced books hold student interest until the last page. Questions at the end of each title promote cognitive development by making students think about vocabulary, comprehension, character, and plot.

Book Watery Grave

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  • Author : Carole Wilkinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Watery Grave written by Carole Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at shipwrecks throughout history, the causes, sunken treasure and stories of survival.