Download or read book The Wreck of the William Brown written by Tom Koch and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wreck of the William Brown written by Tom Koch and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seventy-one years before the Titanic, a ship loaded with Irish immigrants struck an iceberg and plunged to the ocean floor. The ship's crew stepped into two lifeboats, leaving more than half the passengers behind. Fearing for their lives, one overburdened boat's crew threw 14 men and women overboard. And the story of The Wreck of the William Brown had only begun. This chronicle of one of the 19th century's most infamous sea disasters and the uproar that followed presents a portrait of a forgotten time, re-creates a defining maritime trial, and tells of back room legal shenanigans. Newspaper readership was exploding in the 1840s, and journalists jumped on this sensational story. The resulting investigations and trial gave us the concept of "lifeboat ethics."" --Google Books.
Download or read book The Shipwreck written by William Falconer and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eight O May written by William T. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Justice delayed is justice denied." But what if the demand for justice reveals a shocking truth that could ruin your life? After finding part of a newspaper article about his uncle's racially motivated death in Mississippi, a series of strange coincidences triggers Charlie Dawson's search for answers regarding that decades-old event. When his mother ends up in the hospital for emergency surgery, he flies to his hometown to see her. He wastes no time trying to peel back the layers of secrecy to understand what happened decades ago and discovers it's his family who clings tightest to the truth. Not willing to leave and just let it go, Charlie gathers information from the townspeople, dredging up old memories and events better left forgotten... or better left hidden. He didn't expect to uncover that his family's shared history with the murderer-if revealed-could reach through the years and wreck his life.
Download or read book The Wreck of the Hesperus written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celebrated Criminal Cases of America written by Thomas Samuel Duke and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Winter s Tale written by Cassie Brown and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Mercy written by Eleanor Learmonth and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off. But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort to can be both horrifying and ultimately self-destructive. Learmonth and Tabakoff outline the physical and neurological changes that typically affect the victims of disaster. Then, using true stories from history as case studies, they investigate the scenario famously imagined by William Golding in Lord of the Flies and borne out by the extraordinary Robbers Cave experiments of the 1950s. As this fascinating book unfolds the awful truth becomes clear. In extremis, humans are capable of a swift descent into murderous savagery that is both hard to believe - and impossible to forget. Eleanor Learmonth has worked as a teacher and freelance journalist in Japan and Australia. She has a reputation as a magnet for natural disasters. Jenny Tabakoff has been a senior journalist in Australia and Britain for The Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and AAP. She is the co-author of Australian Style. Eleanor and Jenny live in Sydney with their husbands and children. They met at the school gate. 'Succinct yet considered, accessible yet authoritative, Learmonth and Tabakoff strike a happy balance between scholarliness and readability throughout...cogent presentation of some truly harrowing subject matter, which less responsible hands might have milked for vulgar sensationalism.' Bookseller and Publisher 'Well researched and well argued, lively and energetic, No Mercy is full of insights into leadership, loyalty, sacrifice and compassion that will challenge readers to wonder what they might do if similarly tested.' Booktopia Buzz 'Sometimes adversity brings out the best in people, at other times it does the opposite. This is about those other times...excellent reading when you’re safely at home.' Weekend Herald 'A fascinating post-mortem of how certain groups manage to survive while others flailed about in drunken, murderous chaos.' Daily Telegraph 'This fascinating book shines light on an awful truth.' Get Reading
Download or read book Into the Maelstrom written by Colin Brittain and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 29 October 1914 the hospital ship Rohilla left Queensferry with 234 people on board bound for Dunkirk. Just after 4 a.m. on 30 October there was a tremendous impact as the ship ran onto rocks at Saltwick Nab, a mile south of Whitby. Mortally wounded only 600 yards from shore, she was 'so close to land yet so far from safety'. It was impossible to launch the Whitby No. 1 lifeboat to aid those stranded on the ship, instead the No. 2 boat, John Fielden, was lifted over the sea wall and hauled over the rock Scar to opposite the Rohilla. Despite being holed, the lifeboat reached the wreck after great difficulty and rescued five nurses and twelve men. A further eighteen men were saved in a second trip, but damage to the lifeboat barred any further rescues. This book unfolds the heroic events that transpired as members of the public and lifeboatmen struggled to reach those stranded on the wreck. The final fifty souls were saved in an impressive rescue from a motor lifeboat that had travelled over 40 miles in perilous conditions to reach them. Of the 234 people on board the Rohilla eighty-nine were lost. Such was the effort involved that the RNLI bestowed some of its highest medals on several of those involved in the rescue. The loss of the Rohilla is still regarded as one of the worst tragedies to have occurred amongst the annals of the RNLI.
Download or read book Speech of David Paul Brown in Defence of Alexander William Holmes One of the Crew of the Ship William Brown Indicted for Manslaughter Upon the High Seas April 21 1842 Before the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania written by David Paul Brown and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home is the Sailor written by William Blain and published by London : Hurst & Blackett Limited. This book was released on 1940 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Perfect Storm written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of men against the sea.
Download or read book Journal of William Brown While Travelling from Virginia to Kentucky written by William Brown and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handwritten transcripts of excerpts from William Brown's Journal of his journeys (University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 383). Contains information observed during Brown's travels to Kentucky in 1782, along the wilderness road, and in 1790, along the Ohio River Route. Includes names of settlements, geographic landmarks, and distances travelled. Brown also mentions the Battle of Blue Licks (August 19, 1782) and lists the names of officers killed.
Download or read book The Negro in the American Rebellion written by William Wells Brown and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Corsair written by William Reney and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lord of the Flies written by William Golding and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.
Download or read book A Winter s Tale written by Cassie Brown and published by Doubleday Canada ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1976 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the story of the wreck of the S.S. Florizel off the coast ofNewfoundland, February 23-24, 1918.
