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Book From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores

Download or read book From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores written by Mac Magee and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With incredible clarity and in vivid detail, this 10-year Navy veteran, explains and involves you in the action of the times ... the Cold War in the Pacific Ocean during the mid to late 1950’s from Boot Camp and basic training, to service aboard a U.S. Navy Destroyer: the USS Theodore Edson Chandler (DD-717). Enjoy liberty ashore in Foreign ports in this first book of his trilogy; From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores. Be his shipmate as you: • Endure tear gas, an oil fire and nearly getting drowned during Basic Training. • Become one of the crew of a five-inch gun turret, when a buddy loader drops a live projectile while firing. • Experience A ONE IN A MILLION HAPPENING! the in-your-face terror of a full-blown typhoon that threatens to capsize your ship as a shipmate gets washed overboard ... Then back onboard again! • Learn everything a destroyer does from Gunnery and sub-chasing to stopping weapons-smuggling in the Formosa Strait. • Enjoy exchanges of American life styles and customs, as you live and eat with shipmates from New York to Tennessee. • Almost panic, when not only officers from your ship, but the Captain too; decide to throw you overboard at night into the black-as-ink waters of Subic Bay, P.I. and you can’t SWIM! You won’t have to have been or be, a sailor nor even in the Navy to read and understand this book! Explanations, foot notes and “Backgrounds” will make it clear for you to move through without stumbling (if you can catch your breath!)

Book From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores

Download or read book From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores written by Mac Magee and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With incredible clarity and in vivid detail, this 10-year Navy veteran, explains and involves you in the action of the times ... the Cold War in the Pacific Ocean during the mid to late 1950's from Boot Camp and basic training, to service aboard a U.S. Navy Destroyer: the USS Theodore Edson Chandler (DD-717). Enjoy liberty ashore in Foreign ports in this first book of his trilogy; From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores. Be his shipmate as you: - Endure tear gas, an oil fire and nearly getting drowned during Basic Training. - Become one of the crew of a five-inch gun turret, when a buddy loader drops a live projectile while firing. - Experience A ONE IN A MILLION HAPPENING! the in-your-face terror of a full-blown typhoon that threatens to capsize your ship as a shipmate gets washed overboard ... Then back onboard again! - Learn everything a destroyer does from Gunnery and sub-chasing to stopping weapons-smuggling in the Formosa Strait. - Enjoy exchanges of American life styles and customs, as you live and eat with shipmates from New York to Tennessee. - Almost panic, when not only officers from your ship, but the Captain too; decide to throw you overboard at night into the black-as-ink waters of Subic Bay, P.I. and you can't SWIM! You won't have to have been or be, a sailor nor even in the Navy to read and understand this book! Explanations, foot notes and "Backgrounds" will make it clear for you to move through without stumbling (if you can catch your breath!)...

Book From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores

Download or read book From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores written by Mac Magee and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although officially in the somewhat nebulous genre of Fiction, it's a mix being "based upon a true story". Set in the early 1960's a young sailor transfers from the natural realm of the seas to shore duty encountering quite unexpected and enlightening adventures in Cold War London. Readers are left to sort out what may or may not be true, "why?" is explained in the Preface. Explicitly revealed are: * What Lloyds of London sold besides insurance * Classified behind-the-scenes military activities * What the President said vs what we did! * The workings of Cryptography; Codes, Ciphers, machines and brief history. * deep love headed to matrimony unexpectedly and tragically destroyed * A taboo, Gay-straight military, love, sex triangle * An attempt at espionage recruitment foiled * A "Yank's" assimilation of British citizenry and culture * The Beatles before fame and fortune * I become a Scout Master and a Movie Star? It's true that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction and perhaps readers will agree. My story isn't a James Bond thriller; but it's as close as I've ever come to it ! Upon reenlisting, the Navy gave me the choice of where I wanted to go; Now eligible for shore duty, I chose London and getting it brought me to experiences I'd never otherwise have had; the interesting, challenging learning opportunities that came my way enriched and widened my life ... and opened my eyes!

Book Bright and Distant Shores

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.

Book The Sea

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  • Author : Jan De Hartog
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1953
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Sea written by Jan De Hartog and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Distant Shores

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  • Author : Kristin Hannah
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2011-06-28
  • ISBN : 0345469372
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Distant Shores written by Kristin Hannah and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Hannah examines whether love and commitment are enough to sustain a marriage when two people who have put their individual dreams on ice get a chance to defrost them . . . in fast-moving prose punctuated by snappy asides.”—People Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look picture perfect. But after the girls leave home, Jack and Elizabeth quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job, Elizabeth puts her own needs aside to follow him across the country. Then tragedy turns Elizabeth’s world upside down. In the aftermath, she questions everything about her life—her choices, her marriage, even her long-forgotten dreams. In a daring move that shocks her husband, friends, and daughters, she lets go of the woman she has become—and reaches out for the woman she wants to be.

Book A Distant Shore

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  • Author : Karen Kingsbury
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-10-19
  • ISBN : 1982104368
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book A Distant Shore written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book club favorites, reader's guide"--Cover.

Book Travel

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book Travel written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Distant Shore

Download or read book The Distant Shore written by Johannes Hartog and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Distant Shores

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  • Author : William C. Hammond
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2023-01-02
  • ISBN : 1493071327
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book To Distant Shores written by William C. Hammond and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades after the War of 1812 were years of introspection for the fledgling American republic. Having twice prevailed against the military might of Great Britain, there was now no power on Earth ready, willing, and able to take on the United States. As America entered the 1840s and began expanding its dominion over North America and opening lucrative overseas markets in Asia and elsewhere, all that was needed to secure its place in the world was an alliance with a like-minded nation with the naval resources to guarantee the integrity of global trade routes and the financial rewards accruing to both parties of such an alliance. Captain Richard Cutler commands the new United States steam frigate Suwannee on a mission to the South Seas to the distant shores of New Zealand.

Book The Distant Shores

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  • Author : Santa Montefiore
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-04-19
  • ISBN : 1398507709
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Distant Shores written by Santa Montefiore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From internationally bestselling author Santa Montefiore, whose books have sold more than six million copies worldwide, comes The Distant Shores, a new story in the sweeping Deverill saga, about a family torn apart and the woman who will bring them back together. Margot Hart travels to Ireland to write a biography of the famous Deverill family. She knows she must speak to the current Lord Deverill, JP, if she is to uncover the secrets of the past. A notorious recluse, JP won’t be an easy man to crack. But Margot is determined—and she is not a woman who is easily put off. What she never expected was to form a close bond with JP and be drawn into his family disputes. Shouldering the blame for running up debts that forced him to sell the family castle, JP is isolated and vulnerable. With help from his handsome son Colm, it seems as though Margot might be the only one who can restore JP’s fortunes. Will the family ever succeed in healing rifts that have been centuries in the making?

Book Bright and Distant Shores

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  • Author : Dominic Smith
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-09-13
  • ISBN : 1439198861
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Bright and Distant Shores written by Dominic Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private 'collecting' voyage into the Pacific, collecting not only weaponry and artefacts but also 'several natives related by blood'.

Book Those Distant Shores

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  • Author : Santiago Sia
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2015-04-01
  • ISBN : 1443876844
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Those Distant Shores written by Santiago Sia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Distant Shores” can mean various things. Literally, distant shores refer to one’s travel destinations. Figuratively, they represent human desires, ambitions, or goals. But “distant shores” also stand for the human yearning, imbedded in everyone, for final fulfillment. Such yearning makes human beings fundamentally restless. This work is about all of these forms of restlessness. In story form, it explores a fundamental philosophical theme: human transcendence. The narrative follows the life-journeys of three Filipino boyhood friends who had different ambitions in, and dreams about, life. A parallel story of another young man from Spain, who is coming to grips with his father's philosophical views on life, links up with one of these Filipinos during a trip to Ireland. As the four characters’ respective and very different narratives unfold, their dialogues develop and their reflections deepen, one is caught up in the challenges they have had to face, the goals they have achieved, and the failures and successes they have encountered. In different, and at times unexpected, ways they illustrate the restlessness of human nature itself.

Book Life Is a Journey  Not a Race

Download or read book Life Is a Journey Not a Race written by S. B. Sia and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life presents us with challenges as well as opportunities. It confronts us with obstacles as we journey on, but it also offers us various pathways and routes that we can take. Comparing our life-journey to the travels we make in life, this book is an invitation to readers to face up to those challenges and to meet them through a series of reflections called "comma-moments": the chance to "stop momentarily and mull things over," or to "create space in time" as they go about the business of living from day to day. Like commas in a sentence, which help us to read and interpret its meaning properly, a life punctuated with short reflective breaks enables us to draw out its meaning and significance. Drawing on his vast educational background and diverse global travels, the author shares with readers some "thoughts for food" while on our life-journeys. These reflections, as well as anecdotes and stories, also avail themselves of the real-life experiences of others and the wisdom of many contemporary voices and historical figures throughout the world, especially those who have been concerned with the kind of reflection that will help as we move on in life. In particular, it discusses a conceptual life-map to aid us navigate our way in life and to step up to its challenges.

Book The Western Galaxy

Download or read book The Western Galaxy written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athen  um

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1847
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 654 pages

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Distant Shore

Download or read book The Distant Shore written by Jan De Hartog and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: