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Category : Deep diving
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Historical Diver
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Category : Deep diving
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher:
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Category : Deep diving
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Diving Pioneers and Innovators
Author: Bret Gilliam
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Manages to combine humour, adventure, tragedy, triumph, heroism, and even some forays into the risque while chronicling the careers of 20 personalities that helped make diving. This book presents the personal lives of this diving's heroes. It is illustrated with photographs that capture each interviewee throughout their diving careers.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Manages to combine humour, adventure, tragedy, triumph, heroism, and even some forays into the risque while chronicling the careers of 20 personalities that helped make diving. This book presents the personal lives of this diving's heroes. It is illustrated with photographs that capture each interviewee throughout their diving careers.
The Pearl Diver
Author: Jeff Talarigo
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307429148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan’s Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Miss Fuji. Although drugs arrest the course of Miss Fuji's disease, she cannot leave the colony. Instead, she becomes a caretaker to the other patients, and through the example of their courage, she gains insight into the deep wellspring of strength she will need to reclaim her freedom. Written with precision and eloquence, The Pearl Diver is a dazzling meditation on isolation and community, cruelty and compassion.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307429148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan’s Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Miss Fuji. Although drugs arrest the course of Miss Fuji's disease, she cannot leave the colony. Instead, she becomes a caretaker to the other patients, and through the example of their courage, she gains insight into the deep wellspring of strength she will need to reclaim her freedom. Written with precision and eloquence, The Pearl Diver is a dazzling meditation on isolation and community, cruelty and compassion.
Voices: Diver's Daughter: A Tudor Story
Author: Patrice Lawrence
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407193899
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A gripping heart-in-your-mouth adventure told by Eve, a Tudor girl who sets out on a dangerous journey to change her life for the better. Voices: Diver's Daughter - A Tudor Story brings Eve and her mother, who was stolen from her family in Mozambique as a child, from the Southwark slums of Elizabethan London to England's southern coast. When they hear from a Mary Rose survivor that one of the African free-divers who was sent to salvage its treasures is alive and well and living in Southampton, mother and daughter agree to try to find him and attempt to dive the wreck of another ship, rumoured to be rich with treasures. But will the pair survive when the man arrives to claim his 'share'? Will Eve overcome her fear of the water to help rescue her mother? In this thrilling adventure based on real events, Patrice Lawrence shows us a fascinating and rarely seen world that's sure to hook young readers. VOICES: A thrilling series showcasing some of the UK's finest writers for young people. Voices reflects the authentic, unsung stories of our past. Each shows that, even in times of great upheaval, a myriad of people have arrived on this island and made a home for themselves - from Roman times to the present day.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407193899
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A gripping heart-in-your-mouth adventure told by Eve, a Tudor girl who sets out on a dangerous journey to change her life for the better. Voices: Diver's Daughter - A Tudor Story brings Eve and her mother, who was stolen from her family in Mozambique as a child, from the Southwark slums of Elizabethan London to England's southern coast. When they hear from a Mary Rose survivor that one of the African free-divers who was sent to salvage its treasures is alive and well and living in Southampton, mother and daughter agree to try to find him and attempt to dive the wreck of another ship, rumoured to be rich with treasures. But will the pair survive when the man arrives to claim his 'share'? Will Eve overcome her fear of the water to help rescue her mother? In this thrilling adventure based on real events, Patrice Lawrence shows us a fascinating and rarely seen world that's sure to hook young readers. VOICES: A thrilling series showcasing some of the UK's finest writers for young people. Voices reflects the authentic, unsung stories of our past. Each shows that, even in times of great upheaval, a myriad of people have arrived on this island and made a home for themselves - from Roman times to the present day.
Historical Diving Times
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Category : Deep diving
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Deep diving
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Sport Diver
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Historic Shipwrecks
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oceanography
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Category : Historic ships
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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Category : Historic ships
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Another Whitstable Trade
Author: John Bevan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780950824253
Category : Deep diving
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780950824253
Category : Deep diving
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Divers in Time
Author: Jeff Maynard
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Niagara's Gold
Author: Jeff Maynard
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Category : Salvage
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
How an Australian and New Zealand team salvaged eight tons of gold from a German minefield.
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Category : Salvage
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
How an Australian and New Zealand team salvaged eight tons of gold from a German minefield.