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Recovering the Classics
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (591 pages)
Language
English
Description
The appearance of a mysterious sea creature off the shore of Brooklyn sets a group of scientists on a wild adventure as both guests and prisoners of the extraordinary Captain Nemo. The wrecks from the battle of Vigo Bay, the Antarctic ice shelves, and a sunken Atlantis are just some of the fascinating sights you'll visit on this underwater voyage.--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
"From New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware--this time, set at sea. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful...
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Series
Oregon files volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Captain Juan Cabrillo and and the crew of his intelligence-gathering ship-for-hire encounter an adrift cruise ship filled with hundreds of dead passengers that eventually leads to a discovery of a cult's devastating plot for the human race.
44) Submarines
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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"Presents a history of submarines and their uses featuring large-scale cut-away illustrations"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
UIT Cambridge Limited
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
Tales of a BBC radio phenomenon. This affectionate look at the revered British radio broadcast surveys the history and lore of the four-times daily announcements of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. Written from the perspective of an announcer who read the on-air forecast for nearly 40 years, this book begins with the genesis of the forecast itself. This narrative spans from 19th-century inventions...
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Series
Boxcar children volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
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While on a cruise with their grandfather, the Alden children help discover who is behind the mysterious troubles of the ship--disconnected phone lines, engine trouble, a man overboard--and still have fun sightseeing, eating, and swimming.
Author
Publisher
Summersdale
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 pages)
Language
English
Description
Austerity might be getting everyone else down, but Steve is waving his worries goodbye on another of his light-hearted trips around the picturesque English waterways. This time it's a bit different, though-he's not just cruising with his cat, Kit, but with his long-suffering wife, Em, who's given up work and wants her share of easy living, too. They've rented out their home and there's no going back now as they cruise from the historic River Thames,...
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English
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"The history of shipwrecks along the 840-mile California coast"--
"More than two thousand ships have been lost along California's 840 miles of coastline -- Spanish galleons, passenger liners, freighters, schooners. Some tragedies are marking points in U.S. maritime history. The 'City of Rio de Janeiro,' bound from Hong Kong to San Francisco in 1901, slices the fog only to strike a rock and sink in twenty minutes, sending 128 passengers to watery...
49) PartnerShip
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Series
Language
English
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A new member of the Courier Service of the Central Worlds, Nancia's innocent vision of human nature is shattered on her first voyage. The last thing Nancia needed was a brawn partner, but Forister and Nancia together just might save the galaxy. Expands McCaffrey's The Ship Who Sang.
Author
Publisher
Sheridan House
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This modern classic of small boat literature details the history of the Nordic Folkboat--a class that enjoys remarkable popularity in some of the world's most beautiful and challenging sailing waters. A clinker design that sails equally fast and well whether it is made from wood or fiberglass, the Nordic Folkboat has been around for 60 years. It has stood the test of time as its minimalism, robustness and sea kindliness have proved resistant to radical...
51) Playing the odds
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Series
The MacGregors volume 1
Language
English
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The first story in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts's beloved MacGregors series!
Serena MacGregor satisfies her thirst for freedom and adventure on the open seas, as a blackjack dealer on a cruise ship. There, no one knows about her wealthy upbringing, but the mysterious Justin Blade recognizes something different in the elegant blonde. And when he saunters up to her table, he decides to take the biggest gamble of...
Serena MacGregor satisfies her thirst for freedom and adventure on the open seas, as a blackjack dealer on a cruise ship. There, no one knows about her wealthy upbringing, but the mysterious Justin Blade recognizes something different in the elegant blonde. And when he saunters up to her table, he decides to take the biggest gamble of...
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Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 4
Language
English
Description
National Bestseller!
Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored—in this absorbing entry in the Wayfarers series, which blends heart-warming characters and imaginative adventure.
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has
...53) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
There is a legend among sailors of a fierce white whale, known to some as Moby Dick. This epic story is of Captain Ahab, a one-legged fanatic whose vengeance toward this mighty white whale ignites a mighty clash between good and evil.
Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications Pty Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (368 pages)
Language
English
Description
Over the last 40 years, Jonathan King has brought history to life, re-enacting events such as the First Fleet's voyage across the high seas to Botany Bay, the mutiny against ship's captain William Bligh on the Bounty, Matthew Flinders' troubled circumnavigation of Terra Australis, Ernest Shackleton's death-defying dash across the icy waters of the Antarctic Ocean, and Marco Polo's passage from China. Along the way, King has encountered a cast of mavericks,...
55) The buccaneers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed.
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Language
English
Description
This is the story of two single-handed non-stop round-the-world voyages: Robin Knox-Johnston's in 1968/9 and Ellen MacArthur's in 2004/5. Although there were similarities (both voyages started and finished in Falmouth, for instance, and neither sailor was in a conventional race) the story is mainly one of contrasts, mostly as a consequence of 36 years of technological developments. These gave MacArthur the opportunity for a considerably faster voyage,...
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English
Description
Have you ever wondered about the people who lived and worked along the canals in the past? Have you ever caught a glimpse of something they might have seen or an echo of something they might have heard? Fiona Eadie certainly has, and it is this that has prompted her to write the stories of Amos the lock-keeper, Samuel the navy, Anne of the past, present and future and a host of other characters that populate the pages of Tales from the Towpath. Each...
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Language
English
Description
Harland and Wolff, once acknowledged as the greatest and best-known shipbuilding company in the world, for many years enjoyed a mighty eminence before a gradual descent into near obscurity. This illustrated book, told from the unique perspective of someone who was there at the time, chronicles the history of the organization from its creation to the present day, from its halcyon days to its present incarnation. Today, the company is no longer involved...
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English
Description
Our 21st-century lifestyle could not exist without large oil tankers. But most people's knowledge about their operations and the colossal debt owed to their experimental predecessors remains a closed book. Written by an experienced navigator who served aboard these behemoths in the 1970s, this book offers a real insight into life at sea on a VLCC and how it has changed over the years. It includes the intricacies of learning to navigate a monster,...
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English
Description
The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the advice of Charles Hadfield, has previously revised and updated the perennially popular material to reflect more recent changes. For this ninth edition, Joseph Boughey discusses the many new discoveries and advances in the world of canals around Britain, inevitably focussing on the twentieth century to a...
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