Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Frozen Pirate
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Frozen Pirate
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146560426X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
ÊThe Laughing Mary was a light ship, as sailors term a vessel that stands high upon the water, having discharged her cargo at Callao, from which port we were proceeding in ballast to Cape Town, South Africa, there to call for orders. Our run to within a few parallels of the latitude of the Horn had been extremely pleasant; the proverbial mildness of the Pacific Ocean was in the mellow sweetness of the wind and in the gentle undulations of the silver-laced swell; but scarce had we passed the height of forty-nine degrees when the weather grew sullen and dark, a heavy bank of clouds of a livid hue rose in the north-east, and the wind came and went in small guns, the gusts venting themselves in dreary moans, insomuch that our oldest hands confessed they had never heard blasts more portentous. The gale came on with some lightning and several claps of thunder and heavy rain. Though it was but two o'clock in the afternoon, the air was so dusky that the men had to feel for the ropes; and when the first of the tempest stormed down upon us the appearance of the sea was uncommonly terrible, being swept and mangled into boiling froth in the north-east quarter, whilst all about us and in the south-west it lay in a sort of swollen huddle of shadows, glooming into the darkness of the sky without offering the smallest glimpse of the horizon. In a few minutes the hurricane struck us. We had bared the brig down to the close-reefed main-topsail; yet, though we were dead before the outfly, its first blow rent the fragment of sail as if it were formed of smoke, and in an instant it disappeared, flashing over the bows like a scattering of torn paper, leaving nothing but the bolt-ropes behind. The bursting of the topsail was like the explosion of a large cannon. In a breath the brig was smothered with froth torn up in huge clouds, and hurled over and ahead of her in vast quivering bodies that filled the wind with a dismal twilight of their own, in which nothing was visible but their terrific speeding. Through these slinging, soft, and singing masses of spume drove the rain in horizontal steel-like lines, which gleamed in the lightning stroke as though indeed they were barbed weapons of bright metal, darted by armies of invisible spirits raving out their war cries as they chased us.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146560426X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
ÊThe Laughing Mary was a light ship, as sailors term a vessel that stands high upon the water, having discharged her cargo at Callao, from which port we were proceeding in ballast to Cape Town, South Africa, there to call for orders. Our run to within a few parallels of the latitude of the Horn had been extremely pleasant; the proverbial mildness of the Pacific Ocean was in the mellow sweetness of the wind and in the gentle undulations of the silver-laced swell; but scarce had we passed the height of forty-nine degrees when the weather grew sullen and dark, a heavy bank of clouds of a livid hue rose in the north-east, and the wind came and went in small guns, the gusts venting themselves in dreary moans, insomuch that our oldest hands confessed they had never heard blasts more portentous. The gale came on with some lightning and several claps of thunder and heavy rain. Though it was but two o'clock in the afternoon, the air was so dusky that the men had to feel for the ropes; and when the first of the tempest stormed down upon us the appearance of the sea was uncommonly terrible, being swept and mangled into boiling froth in the north-east quarter, whilst all about us and in the south-west it lay in a sort of swollen huddle of shadows, glooming into the darkness of the sky without offering the smallest glimpse of the horizon. In a few minutes the hurricane struck us. We had bared the brig down to the close-reefed main-topsail; yet, though we were dead before the outfly, its first blow rent the fragment of sail as if it were formed of smoke, and in an instant it disappeared, flashing over the bows like a scattering of torn paper, leaving nothing but the bolt-ropes behind. The bursting of the topsail was like the explosion of a large cannon. In a breath the brig was smothered with froth torn up in huge clouds, and hurled over and ahead of her in vast quivering bodies that filled the wind with a dismal twilight of their own, in which nothing was visible but their terrific speeding. Through these slinging, soft, and singing masses of spume drove the rain in horizontal steel-like lines, which gleamed in the lightning stroke as though indeed they were barbed weapons of bright metal, darted by armies of invisible spirits raving out their war cries as they chased us.
The Ice Sea Pirates
Author: Frida Nilsson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776571468
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The cold bites and the sea lashes in this adventure on the ice seas. Ten-year-old Siri must counter the treachery of sailors, hungry wolves, frozen landscapes and a mine where children are enslaved, to save her younger sister from the dreaded ice sea pirates.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776571468
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The cold bites and the sea lashes in this adventure on the ice seas. Ten-year-old Siri must counter the treachery of sailors, hungry wolves, frozen landscapes and a mine where children are enslaved, to save her younger sister from the dreaded ice sea pirates.
Captain Perrynickle: the Frozen Pirate
Author: Robert George
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Introducing the world to Captain Perrynickle. The most famous pirate you've never heard of! When an iceberg the size of a large city breaks off from within the Arctic Circle headed on a collision course for the East Coast of America all panic sets in. After an armada of war ships, sent by the President, fails at destroying it who in the world can anyone turn to and save them? Only a 300-year-old frozen pirate, that's who! As engineers struggle to break up the iceberg they discover a frozen pirate ship, complete with captain and his cabin boy buried deep inside, what's more they are still alive! Now the race is on as Perrynickle must help divert disaster but with an evil professor and his disabled, one-eyed chihuahua out to get Perrynickle by kidnapping his cabin boy how will the pirate be able to save the day? This is the HILARIOUS story of how the world got to hear about the Superfantastical Captain Perrynickle, and how this pirate is brought back to life to save the day. Prepare to be taken on a fast paced adventure and learn his true history and how he came to be. A tale that will have you laughing-out-loud all the way through.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Introducing the world to Captain Perrynickle. The most famous pirate you've never heard of! When an iceberg the size of a large city breaks off from within the Arctic Circle headed on a collision course for the East Coast of America all panic sets in. After an armada of war ships, sent by the President, fails at destroying it who in the world can anyone turn to and save them? Only a 300-year-old frozen pirate, that's who! As engineers struggle to break up the iceberg they discover a frozen pirate ship, complete with captain and his cabin boy buried deep inside, what's more they are still alive! Now the race is on as Perrynickle must help divert disaster but with an evil professor and his disabled, one-eyed chihuahua out to get Perrynickle by kidnapping his cabin boy how will the pirate be able to save the day? This is the HILARIOUS story of how the world got to hear about the Superfantastical Captain Perrynickle, and how this pirate is brought back to life to save the day. Prepare to be taken on a fast paced adventure and learn his true history and how he came to be. A tale that will have you laughing-out-loud all the way through.
The Frozen Pirate
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Big Book of Pirates
Author: Joan Vinyoli
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781402780561
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of well-known pirate tales, abridged and adapted for younger readers.
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781402780561
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of well-known pirate tales, abridged and adapted for younger readers.
The Desert and the Sea
Author: Michael Scott Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006296867X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival. In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held captive by Somali pirates. Subjected to conditions that break even the strongest spirits—physical injury, starvation, isolation, terror—Moore’s survival is a testament to his indomitable strength of mind. In September 2014, after 977 days, he walked free when his ransom was put together by the help of several US and German institutions, friends, colleagues, and his strong-willed mother. Yet Moore’s own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history. Caught between Muslim pirates, the looming threat of Al-Shabaab, and the rise of ISIS, Moore observes the worlds that surrounded him—the economics and history of piracy; the effects of post-colonialism; the politics of hostage negotiation and ransom; while also conjuring the various faces of Islam—and places his ordeal in the context of the larger political and historical issues. A sort of Catch-22 meets Black Hawk Down, The Desert and the Sea is written with dark humor, candor, and a journalist’s clinical distance and eye for detail. Moore offers an intimate and otherwise inaccessible view of life as we cannot fathom it, brilliantly weaving his own experience as a hostage with the social, economic, religious, and political factors creating it. The Desert and the Sea is wildly compelling and a book that will take its place next to titles like Den of Lions and Even Silence Has an End.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006296867X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival. In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held captive by Somali pirates. Subjected to conditions that break even the strongest spirits—physical injury, starvation, isolation, terror—Moore’s survival is a testament to his indomitable strength of mind. In September 2014, after 977 days, he walked free when his ransom was put together by the help of several US and German institutions, friends, colleagues, and his strong-willed mother. Yet Moore’s own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history. Caught between Muslim pirates, the looming threat of Al-Shabaab, and the rise of ISIS, Moore observes the worlds that surrounded him—the economics and history of piracy; the effects of post-colonialism; the politics of hostage negotiation and ransom; while also conjuring the various faces of Islam—and places his ordeal in the context of the larger political and historical issues. A sort of Catch-22 meets Black Hawk Down, The Desert and the Sea is written with dark humor, candor, and a journalist’s clinical distance and eye for detail. Moore offers an intimate and otherwise inaccessible view of life as we cannot fathom it, brilliantly weaving his own experience as a hostage with the social, economic, religious, and political factors creating it. The Desert and the Sea is wildly compelling and a book that will take its place next to titles like Den of Lions and Even Silence Has an End.
The Wreck of the "Grosvenor"
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Frozen Pirate
Author: William Clark Russell
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512284584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"The Frozen Pirate" from William Clark Russell. English writer (1844-1911).
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512284584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"The Frozen Pirate" from William Clark Russell. English writer (1844-1911).
Pirates in History and Popular Culture
Author: Antonio Sanna
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476633096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, television series, opera, anime and games. Contributors explore the nuances of both real and fictional pirates, giving attention to renowned works such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, the Pirates of the Caribbean saga, and the anime One Piece, as well as less well known works such as pirate romances, William Clarke Russell's The Frozen Pirate, Lionel Lindsay's artworks, Steven Speilberg's The Adventures of Tintin, and Pastafarian texts.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476633096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, television series, opera, anime and games. Contributors explore the nuances of both real and fictional pirates, giving attention to renowned works such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, the Pirates of the Caribbean saga, and the anime One Piece, as well as less well known works such as pirate romances, William Clarke Russell's The Frozen Pirate, Lionel Lindsay's artworks, Steven Speilberg's The Adventures of Tintin, and Pastafarian texts.