Download or read book Towards a Distant Island written by Leonard Wibberley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward a Distant Island written by Leonard Wibberley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's adventures under sail, in small sailing craft between Caribbean islands, later along the California coast, finally in a 40 ft. yawl to Honolulu and return with a crew of young men and boys.
Download or read book To a Distant Island written by James McConkey and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, James McConkey traveled to Italy and researched Chekhov's letters, memoirs, and an account of his journey to Sakhalin island. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.
Download or read book Wrecked on a Coral Island written by Edwin James Houston and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yellow Jeep Stories and Songs written by Joel Vernon Smith and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-01-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel Vernon Smith invites you to watch while life unfolds for entities we’ll never meet, in settings far from our day-to-day locales. Each character is someone we once loved. Or we wish we could have loved. Or perhaps we seek merely to understand her. A sensitive teen takes his dad’s memory for a ride in a new four-wheel-drive in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. A married couple shares a traumatic memory of a decaying barn. A passionate duo learns that their ship is doomed. A wealthy college student argues with his girlfriend when a draft notice arrives. A mentally-troubled elderly woman claims a friendship with a man of smoke. Frightful demons force a man to do a dark tunnel-dance in front of a stalled bus. The author of The Rapists bids you to explore the lives of mostly-gentle human beings as they deal with feelings of love or the arrival of unexpected horror. If it’s true (as a late-sixties song suggests) that words of love won’t win a girl’s heart anymore, perhaps the reader should open this book and take a journey to somewhere she’s never been before. The ride will be exciting.
Download or read book Voices That Wish to Be Heard written by Jack Randall and published by Jack Randall. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteen stories found in this collection, readers will have the opportunity to explore a host of issues. Their journey will fall under the guidance of a writer who has clearly given much energy to thoughts on powerful issues such as overpopulation, depletion of natural resources, the role of religion in society, and the nature of God. But Jack Randall walks this path without missing the flowers along the way. Wading into the mire of profundity has not eliminated his power to touch the reader with heartfelt stories of loss, redemption, and triumph. In the end, the reader will take away from these stories an insight into larger issues facing our world today, insight brought from a slightly tilted point of viewtilted not to obscurity, but rather to such that a new view becomes available, and one which the reader will not fail to enjoy.
Download or read book A Light in the Sea written by Debra Nowaczek and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are ancient. They are waiting. They are patient and prepared to battle for souls Captain Raoul Rivera wrestled with the helm. His heart was turning to stone at the hopeless situation before him. The hurricane storm clouds rose in front of his ship like a huge impenetrable wall. He was choosing to take his ship into certain danger. He searched the deck below, his eyes making a quick scan for Miss Patterson. He quickly spotted her among the crew and rigging; everyone was making ready for the storm. She was smiling up at him as if she had been waiting for him to notice her. His heart swelled, and he knew that he would fight the devil himself to protect her. At that moment the hair on his neck stood on end. He looked over his shoulder. There on the western horizon crested what he dreaded most: the black sails of the Pirate Demon. Titus Ordonez, that dirty-evil pirate had found them. Would his luck and wit be enough to save his ship, crew and Brenda? Lord, help me. His whispered prayer was blown away on the wind.
Download or read book Bright and Distant Shores written by Dominic Smith and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant novel that is at once a rollicking yarn and a beautiful love story, with an amazing cast of unforgettable characters and exotic settings - a feat of imagination and storytelling.
Download or read book On the Wings of Love written by Lynn Cooper and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. --Psalms 91:11 Davey Gibson has grown into a strong young Christian man at twenty-four years old and has dedicated his life to flying a bush plane into the South Pacific islands supporting the missionaries in their ministries to the natives. Grampa Hal goes home to heaven, and Davey's mother suffers a near-death experience, changing all their lives for the days ahead. The story weaves itself through days gone by while revealing golden memories being made in the present. Tragedy strikes time and time again as Satan attempts to destroy the work and stop the light of God's Word from changing the lives on the islands caught up in witchcraft and idol worship. Davey's team is accused of theft at one point, and then Davey himself is arrested for drug smuggling at their home base on Kalmajo Island. The team ends up in the crosshairs of a violent drug gang that nearly costs them their lives. The reader will pass through times of tears and sorrow and then times of joy and laughter. On the Wings of Love is a delightful sequel to the Grampa Hal children's series that is guaranteed to captivate the reader's mind and keep them turning pages, sharing one last visit with little Davey Gibson and Mama on Maplewood Avenue.
Download or read book The Mutineers written by Charles Boardman Hawes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mutineers: A Tale of Old Days at Sea and of Adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop Set It Down Some Sixty Years Ago" by Charles Boardman Hawes follows the writer's tradition of writing adventure stories about traveling on the high seas. When a merchant vessel from Salem, Massachusetts, sets sail for China, things don't go according to plan. A marooning on an unknown island and a captain who loses control of his ship set this tale up for an adventure that's full of action for readers of all ages.
Download or read book The Untold History of the United States Volume 2 written by Oliver Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover America’s secrets in this second of two volumes of the young readers’ edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Eric Singer. There is history as we know it. And there is history we should have known. Complete with poignant photos and little-known but vitally important stories, this second of two volumes traces how people around the world responded to the United States’s rise as a superpower from the end of World War II through an increasingly tense Cold War and, eventually, to the brink of nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is not the kind of history taught in schools or normally presented on television or in popular movies. This riveting young readers volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies to reveal uncomfortable realities about the US role in heightening Cold War tensions. It also humanizes the experiences of diverse people, at home and abroad, who yearned for a more just, equal, and compassionate world. This volume will come as a breath of fresh air for students, teachers, and budding young historians hungry for different perspectives—which makes it a crucial counterpoint to today’s history textbooks. Adapted by high school and university educator Eric S. Singer from the bestselling book and companion to the documentary The Untold History of the United States by Academy Award–winning director Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick, this volume gives young readers a powerful and provocative look at the US role in the Cold War. It also provides a blueprint for those concerned with shaping a better and more equitable future for people across the world.
Download or read book Mid Pacific Magazine written by Alexander Hume Ford and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discovering the Allagash written by Jeff Sims and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the ultimate guide to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW) because it covers every aspect of the canoeing/camping experience from the skilled eyes of a seasoned camper, accomplished canoeist and dedicated Eagle Scout. It includes maps based on the map/brochure issued by Maines Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry with permission from the AWW Superintendent. There are over 100 stunning color photos, suggestions of what to bring, where to park, where to put-in and take-out, as well as brief summaries of what to expect at different campsites. It is also a study of contrasts, as the author describes: quiet serene lakes; charging bull moose; terrifying intense winds creating three-foot waves; rainbows over calm water; embedded history of lumbering; spelunking in the Ice Caves; hiking nature trails with beautiful vistas; starring up at the Northern Lights; surviving the white water of Chase Rapids; falling asleep exhausted to the call of a loon, the babbling of a brook or the roar of a waterfall, and so much more. The AWW is an extremely remote, nature sanctuary that has won the authors heart. He hopes the guidance and advice in his book will allow others to canoe this wilderness paradise with confidence and insight, as they are reminded of Henry David Thoreaus quote: ...in wildness is the preservation of the world.
Download or read book The Mutineers A Tale Of Old Days At Sea And Of Adventures In The Far East As Benjamin Lathrop Set It Down Some Sixty Years Ago written by Charles Boardman Hawes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Pirate Curse written by Kai Meyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pirates of the Caribbean have a name for kids who can walk on water -- they call them polliwogs. As far as 14-year-old Jolly knows, she's the last polliwog still alive. She is valuable to the pirate captain who raised her, for she can sneak up on an enemy ship by walking over the waves. When someone sets a trap for Jolly's ship, Jolly alone escapes. She is washed up on a tiny island inhabited by a farming family -- and the ghosts who labor for them. The farmers have a son, Munk, who has been raised almost in hiding. Munk longs to go to sea, but his parents say that they are afraid of pirates, and they have forbidden Munk to reveal his true identity -- he, too, is a polliwog. But pirates are not the only threat in the Caribbean. Evil forces are stirring, and a demon from the sea attacks and murders Munk's parents. Was the demon really after Munk? And Jolly, too? Why are the polliwogs so valuable, and who wants them enough to kill for them? Jolly and Munk must sail with a strange crew of outcasts, led by the mysterious Ghost Trader, to avenge their loved ones and try to stop an ancient, malevolent force known as the Maelstrom. What it will cost both teens, no one can tell -- in this thrilling, swashbuckling fantasy from the extraordinary Kai Meyer.
Download or read book Giraffe on a Bathtub Wave written by Max Marshall and published by Litres. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially, in the enchanting land of Giraffeland, there lived a gentle giraffe named Penny and her curious little calf Nicholas. Penny loved taking care of her baby, and one sunny day, she decided it was time for Nicholas to have his very first bath. As warm water filled the bathroom, Nicholas’s imagination soared high, and he transformed into a brave pirate sailing the vast seas on a tiny ship. With a twinkle in his eye and a heart full of adventure, Nicholas captured other ships.
Download or read book Waterwalk written by Steven Faulkner and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Faulkner and his 16-year-old son Justin are paddling and portaging their way along the 1000-mile, 1673, Mississippi discovery route of French explorers Marquette and Joliet. Tired, hungry, lost, lonely, fogbound, canoe-wrecked, unable to make their way in the darkness, they are having an excellent time—paddling 300 miles along Lake Michigan’s shore to Green Bay, Wisconsin, then 300 miles up the storm-flooded Fox River, down the Wisconsin River, then turning south for 400 miles down the mighty Mississippi to St. Louis. Waterwalk is a triple journey: a journey into the heart of this continent 300 years ago—as depicted in Marquette’s own journal (a translation of which Faulkner found in the basement of a University of Kansas library), a modern exploration of the quiet waterways that weave their way through busy, rush-around America, and a voyage through the heart of a father-son relationship. “Something in us,” says Faulkner, “longs to go the way of the river, to lie down on those silken currents and swing away from the bank and move along mile after mile. There’s something there that’s wild and strong and asleep in mystery . . .And all the while, rivers spoke to us in unfamiliar languages, the winds warned us of unheeded perils, statues came alive and shared their stories, and a father and son tried to learn the language of friendship and interdependence."
