Author: Eileen R. McSaveney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Continental drift
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Author: Graeme R. Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Continental drift
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Brian Murphy
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306901994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only one would survive. This is his story. As they started their nine days adrift more than four hundred miles off Newfoundland, the castaways--an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen, including Thomas W. Nye from Fairhaven, Massachusetts--began fighting over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died. Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only Nye and the ship's log survived. Using Nye's firsthand descriptions and later newspaper accounts, ship's logs, assorted diaries, and family archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold gray Atlantic. Adrift brings readers to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and desperate act is a potential life saver or life taker.

Author: Ernest Way Elkington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Graeme R. Stevens
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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"... This bulletin provides the first comprehensive scientific description of Early Jurassic ammonites (200-189 million years) of the Hokonui Hills and also includes those of the Catlins coast (Otago) and Marokopa and Kawhia of the Waikato coast."--COVER.

Author: E. Way Elkington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Graeme Roy Stevens
Publisher: Raupo
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Maurice Bailey
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780924486319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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The Bailey's is a fantastic human story of adaption to totally alien conditions. It is a story of amazing courage, resolution and endurance. Essential reading for all who enjoy a gripping true story, 117 Days Adrift is an inspiring tale that has become one of the classics of the sea.

Author: Fodor's Travel Guides
Publisher: Fodor's Travel
ISBN: 0804142513
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1250

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Fodor's correspondents highlight the best of New Zealand, including Auckland, Fiordland National Park, Marlborough wineries, the Southern Alps, and the Bay of Islands. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure you make the most of your time, whether it’s your first trip or your fifth. MUST-SEE ATTRACTIONS from Queenstown to Wellington PERFECT HOTELS for every budget BEST RESTAURANTS to satisfy a range of tastes GORGEOUS FEATURES on Middle-Earth and Māori art VALUABLE TIPS on when to go and ways to save INSIDER PERSPECTIVE from local experts COLOR PHOTOS AND MAPS to inspire and guide your trip

Author: E. Way Elkington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781330878392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Excerpt from Adrift in New Zealand In introducing this little volume on New Zealand I wish it to be clearly understood that as a practical guide to that country it is useless, as a Standard Geography for the Board Schools it is worse than useless; and I frankly admit that students of natural philosophy, geology, botany, or archaeology will not be interested in it. Missionaries will find no encouragement in it to throw up their work in this country and go to civilise the Maoris; whilst Little Englanders will, I regret to say, fly from it like rats from a wire-haired terrier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."