Author: Paula Trotter
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480820784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
John Smyth, accustomed to a life of privilege and ease in eighteenth-century England, drops out of school to take charge of his familys shipyard, leasing out its beloved schooner, My Glorious C for quick profit, when his father dies. The young heir also finds himself drawn to Lady Sideris Douglas, who is betrothed to Aldin Ali Langford, son of the baron who arranged the lease of Glorious. Against the objection of his closest adviser, he and Ali join the ships crew on what is supposed to be a routine channel crossing to France. John soon faces agonizing consequences from his misguided decisions. The schooner disappears, the trustees are arrested for fraud, and his shipyard is seized, soon to be auctioned. Even worse, Ali realizes whats going on between John and Sideris. Driven to correct his wrongs, John embarks on The Fourth Ship--the same ship whose mast crushed his father to death and that he vowed never to set foot upon. With its intriguing plot, competent prose and engaging characters, theres much to recommend this story. It builds enough suspense to keep readers glued to the pages -Kirkus Reviews
The Fourth Ship
Author: Paula Trotter
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480820784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
John Smyth, accustomed to a life of privilege and ease in eighteenth-century England, drops out of school to take charge of his familys shipyard, leasing out its beloved schooner, My Glorious C for quick profit, when his father dies. The young heir also finds himself drawn to Lady Sideris Douglas, who is betrothed to Aldin Ali Langford, son of the baron who arranged the lease of Glorious. Against the objection of his closest adviser, he and Ali join the ships crew on what is supposed to be a routine channel crossing to France. John soon faces agonizing consequences from his misguided decisions. The schooner disappears, the trustees are arrested for fraud, and his shipyard is seized, soon to be auctioned. Even worse, Ali realizes whats going on between John and Sideris. Driven to correct his wrongs, John embarks on The Fourth Ship--the same ship whose mast crushed his father to death and that he vowed never to set foot upon. With its intriguing plot, competent prose and engaging characters, theres much to recommend this story. It builds enough suspense to keep readers glued to the pages -Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480820784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
John Smyth, accustomed to a life of privilege and ease in eighteenth-century England, drops out of school to take charge of his familys shipyard, leasing out its beloved schooner, My Glorious C for quick profit, when his father dies. The young heir also finds himself drawn to Lady Sideris Douglas, who is betrothed to Aldin Ali Langford, son of the baron who arranged the lease of Glorious. Against the objection of his closest adviser, he and Ali join the ships crew on what is supposed to be a routine channel crossing to France. John soon faces agonizing consequences from his misguided decisions. The schooner disappears, the trustees are arrested for fraud, and his shipyard is seized, soon to be auctioned. Even worse, Ali realizes whats going on between John and Sideris. Driven to correct his wrongs, John embarks on The Fourth Ship--the same ship whose mast crushed his father to death and that he vowed never to set foot upon. With its intriguing plot, competent prose and engaging characters, theres much to recommend this story. It builds enough suspense to keep readers glued to the pages -Kirkus Reviews
The Ship
Author: Antonia Honeywell
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316469890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In this thought-provoking and lyrical debut novel, a young woman's only hope for survival in the dystopian future is a ship, a Noah's Ark, that can rescue 500 people. London burned for three weeks. And then it got worse. . . Young, naive, and frustratingly sheltered, Lalla has grown up in near-isolation in her parents' apartment, sheltered from the chaos of their collapsed civilization. But things are getting more dangerous outside. People are killing each other for husks of bread, and the police are detaining anyone without an identification card. On her sixteenth birthday, Lalla's father decides it's time to use their escape route -- a ship he's built that is only big enough to save five hundred people. But the utopia her father has created isn't everything it appears. There's more food than anyone can eat, but nothing grows; more clothes than anyone can wear, but no way to mend them; and no-one can tell her where they are going.
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316469890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In this thought-provoking and lyrical debut novel, a young woman's only hope for survival in the dystopian future is a ship, a Noah's Ark, that can rescue 500 people. London burned for three weeks. And then it got worse. . . Young, naive, and frustratingly sheltered, Lalla has grown up in near-isolation in her parents' apartment, sheltered from the chaos of their collapsed civilization. But things are getting more dangerous outside. People are killing each other for husks of bread, and the police are detaining anyone without an identification card. On her sixteenth birthday, Lalla's father decides it's time to use their escape route -- a ship he's built that is only big enough to save five hundred people. But the utopia her father has created isn't everything it appears. There's more food than anyone can eat, but nothing grows; more clothes than anyone can wear, but no way to mend them; and no-one can tell her where they are going.
The Antlered Ship
Author: Dashka Slater
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 1786031051
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An inquisitive fox sets off on a seafaring voyage with a crew of deer and pigeons in this enchanting tale of friendship and adventure. Marco the fox has a lot of questions, like: how deep does the sun go when it sinks into the sea? And why do birds have such lizardy feet? But none of the other foxes share his curiosity. So when a magnificent ship adorned with antlers and with a deer for a captain arrives at the dock looking for a crew, Marco volunteers, hoping to find foxes who are as inquisitive as he is that can answer his questions. The crew finds adventure and intrigue on their journey. And, at last, Marco finds the answer to his most important question of all: What's the best way to find a friend you can talk to?
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 1786031051
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An inquisitive fox sets off on a seafaring voyage with a crew of deer and pigeons in this enchanting tale of friendship and adventure. Marco the fox has a lot of questions, like: how deep does the sun go when it sinks into the sea? And why do birds have such lizardy feet? But none of the other foxes share his curiosity. So when a magnificent ship adorned with antlers and with a deer for a captain arrives at the dock looking for a crew, Marco volunteers, hoping to find foxes who are as inquisitive as he is that can answer his questions. The crew finds adventure and intrigue on their journey. And, at last, Marco finds the answer to his most important question of all: What's the best way to find a friend you can talk to?
The Voyage of the Vizcaína
Author: Klaus Brinkbäumer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151011865
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape detection for centuries before it was discovered in the mid-1990s. In 2002, Klaus Brinkbäumer and Clemens Höges, journalists with the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and also amateur divers, were the first to assemble a team of experts to analyze the remains. They determined that it was not only the oldest wreck ever found in the Western Hemisphere, but also verylikely the remains of the Vizcaína, one of the ships Christopher Columbus took on his last trip to the New World. The Voyage of the Vizcaína, set to be published on the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's death, combines investigative journalism, archaeology, and historical re-creation to give us the fascinating story-and startling truths-behind Columbus's final attempt to reach the East by going west.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151011865
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Lying in only twenty-five feet of water in a small gulf off the coast of Panama, a shipwrecked vessel managed to escape detection for centuries before it was discovered in the mid-1990s. In 2002, Klaus Brinkbäumer and Clemens Höges, journalists with the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and also amateur divers, were the first to assemble a team of experts to analyze the remains. They determined that it was not only the oldest wreck ever found in the Western Hemisphere, but also verylikely the remains of the Vizcaína, one of the ships Christopher Columbus took on his last trip to the New World. The Voyage of the Vizcaína, set to be published on the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's death, combines investigative journalism, archaeology, and historical re-creation to give us the fascinating story-and startling truths-behind Columbus's final attempt to reach the East by going west.
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Author: Christopher Columbus
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141920424
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is revealed as a fascinating and contradictory figure, fluctuating from awed enthusiasm to paranoia and eccentric geographical speculation. Prey to petty quarrels with his officers, his pious desire to bring Christian civilization to 'savages' matched by his rapacity for gold, Columbus was nonetheless an explorer and seaman of staggering vision and achievement.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141920424
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is revealed as a fascinating and contradictory figure, fluctuating from awed enthusiasm to paranoia and eccentric geographical speculation. Prey to petty quarrels with his officers, his pious desire to bring Christian civilization to 'savages' matched by his rapacity for gold, Columbus was nonetheless an explorer and seaman of staggering vision and achievement.
Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 1872 (H.R. 4040), Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1980, and H.R. 2575 (S. 429), Department of Defense Supplemental Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1979 Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session: Seapower and Strategic and Critical Materials Subcommittee
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military law
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Military law
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Convoy
Author: Dudley Pope
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755120418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A deadly game of cat and mouse unravels its way out of this spine tingling war story as Lieutenant Yorke must find an answer to one vital question: how are German U-Boats sinking merchant ships from inside the convoys? Only his wit and daring can lead to its survival and his.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755120418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A deadly game of cat and mouse unravels its way out of this spine tingling war story as Lieutenant Yorke must find an answer to one vital question: how are German U-Boats sinking merchant ships from inside the convoys? Only his wit and daring can lead to its survival and his.
Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2376
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2376
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Department of the Navy
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
List of beacons, buoys, stakes, and other day-marks in the Fourth Light-House District embracing thr sea-coasts, bays, harbors, and rivers, from a point on the coast opposite the Mouth of the Shrewsbury River, New Jersey, to include Metomkin Inlet, Virginia
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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