Download or read book The Wreckers Revenge written by Norman Jorgensen and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Read doesn't set out to find trouble, but trouble sure has a way of findinghim. Expelled from school, he is whisked off by Captain Black Bowen, one ofthe most infamous smugglers ever to ply the coast of northern Australia inthe early years of the twentieth century. Together they battle demon storms,crazed pirates and killer diseases while hunting down a great lost treasure.Non-stop action, adventure and excitement!
Download or read book The Wreckers written by John Viele and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third book in a series on the history of the Florida Keys, John Viele tells the true story of the Florida Keys wreckers, the daring seamen who sailed out in fair weather or foul to save lives and property from ships cast up on the unforgiving Florida Reef in the passage south of the Florida Keys, one of the most dangerous in the world, having claimed thousands of ships and lives. In the 1850s, the heyday of the wreckers, ships were piling up on the reef at the rate of nearly one a week. Salvaging these wrecks was a highly competitive and hazardous gamble of the lives, limbs, and vessels of the wreckers against an often elusive gain. From the archives of the federal court at Key West, or “wrecking court," and from contemporary letters, diaries, and newspaper articles, the author has captured the drama of the lives and times of the Florida Keys wreckers with accuracy and clarity. Richly illustrated with drawings from nineteenth-century magazines and newspapers, artists' concepts of wrecking scenes, and reproductions of old paintings and photographs, this book will fascinate sailors and landlubbers alike. See all of the books in this series
Download or read book The Smuggler s Curse written by Norman Jorgensen and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Read's life takes an alarming turn when his mother sells him to an infamous smuggler plying his trade off the north-west coast of Australia in the closing days of the 19th century. From terrifying encounters with cut-throat pirates to battling the forces of nature in a tropical typhoon, from dining with head-hunting guerrillas to making meals of monkey stew, Red is in for a hair-raising adventure that may cost him his life.
Download or read book The Florida Keys The wreckers written by John Viele and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, on the Keys between Key West and the mainland, some forty thousand residents and thousands of visitors fish, swim, sail and dive int he crystal clear waters off a tropical reef; relax in the sun adn cooling trade wind breezes; and sleep in the air-conditioned comfort of their homes and hotel rooms. On these same islands, as short a time as eighty years ago, fewer than three hundred inhabitants tried to eke out a living without benefit of electricity, running water, radios, or telephones. The stories of these hard pioneers and their predecessors, as far back as the Native Americans who lived on the Keys at least one thousand years ago, are told, many for the first time, in this book.
Download or read book The Wrecker s Daughter written by Charles Parker Ilsley and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jack s Island written by Norman Jorgensen and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When war comes to Australia, Jack' s family moves to Rottnest Island while his father helps the military build an airfield. Jack is left to explore his new home with his best friend Banjo ... and the pair have a knack for getting in trouble. Trouble that' s exacerbated when their new classmate Dafty seeks revenge against the local schoolmaster for a punishment inflicted on Banjo. Will Dafty' s loyalty lead to things suddenly becoming more serious?Written in short, engaging chapters, this poignant and accessible story for younger readers offers valuable insights into wartime Australia.
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Download or read book The Price They Paid written by Jeff Forret and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves “A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.” —Robert Elder‚ author of Calhoun: American Heretic In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau, over the outraged objections of the ship’s owners, set the rescued captives free. American slave owners and the companies who insured the liberated human cargo would spend years lobbying for reparations from Great Britain, not for the emancipated slaves, of course, but for the masters deprived of their human property. In a work of profoundly relevant research and storytelling, historian and Frederick Douglass Prize–winner Jeff Forret uncovers how the Comet incident—as well as similar episodes that unfolded over the next decade—resulted in the British Crown making reparations payments to a U.S. government that strenuously represented slaveholder interests. Through a story that has never been fully explored, The Price They Paid shows how, unlike their former owners and insurers, neither the survivors of the Comet and other vessels, nor their descendants, have ever received reparations for the price they paid in their lives, labor, and suffering during slavery. Any accounting of reparations today requires a fuller understanding of how the debts of slavery have been paid, and to whom. The Price They Paid represents a major step forward in that effort.
Download or read book The wrecker written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Flanders Fields written by Norman Jorgensen and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhumanity of war, In Flanders Fields tells the story of a young homesick World War I soldier who risks his life to cross the no-man's-land and rescue a robin caught in the barbed wire that separates the opposing forces.
Download or read book The Wrecker written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Wrecker' is an adventure novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story follows the adventures of two friends, Loudon Dodd and Jim Pinkerton, as they investigate a series of shipwrecks off the coast of California. They suspect foul play and uncover a plot involving corrupt businessmen, Chinese immigrants, and a mysterious figure known as the "Wrecker." Along the way, they encounter danger, romance, and betrayal. The novel is known for its fast-paced action, vivid descriptions of the California landscape, and its exploration of themes such as greed and corruption in the Gilded Age.
Download or read book The Wrecker written by Robert Louis Osbourne, Lloyd Stevenson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne
Download or read book The Last Viking written by Norman Jorgensen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh is a timid boy until his grandpa gives him a book about Vikings and he imagines himself as Knut, fearless Viking raider.
Download or read book Works The wrecker written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My summer holiday being a tourist s jottings about Tenby written by My summer holiday and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coast of Maine written by F. P. Minnelli and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea written by James Lindridge and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
