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The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe endures twenty-seven years of solitude and deprivation on a remote Caribbean island, his only companion an escaped prisoner who he names "Friday." Together, Crusoe and Friday encounter cannibals, captives and mutineers, before being rescued by pirates and returning home.
Written by Daniel Defoe in 1719, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is thought to be inspired by the true story of Scottish...
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Bloody Jack adventures volume 3
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In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea where she gains control of a British warship and eventually becomes a privateer.
63) Goodbye, Vietnam
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[1992]
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Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.
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After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard's career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins. With nothing left to lose, Pollard, descendant of a Nantucket captain whose ship was sunk by a rogue whale, accepts an offer to join anti-whaling activists on a round-the-world racing yacht as the resident scientist, to sail from Argentina to the stormy Antarctic Sea. There they'll shadow, harass, and expose the Japanese fleet,...
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Toilers of the Sea (1866) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, Toilers of the Sea is a story of adventure that expresses the everyday struggles of a fool in love while capturing the changes wrought by political and economic revolution in Europe. "Gilliatt lived in the parish of St. Sampson. He was not liked by his neighbours; and there were reasons for that fact." Viewed as an outsider by the...
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Tales of the Modern Navy volume 16
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2016.
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"The latest in David Poyer's acclaimed novels about the modern Navy and Marine Corps, Onslaught chronicles Dan Lenson's latest challenge as the U.S. Navy struggles to hold Taiwan, Korea, and Japan against a massive Chinese offensive. The prize: domination of Asia and the Western Pacific. As the United States' computer, satellite, and financial networks are ravaged by coordinated digital attacks, China and its associated powers begin to roll up and...
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Terra incognita volume 1
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2009.
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"Terra incognita-- the blank spaces on the map, past the edge of the world, marked only by the words "here be monsters." Two nations at war, fighting for dominion over the known, and undiscovered, world, pin their last hopes of ultimate victory on finding a land out of legend"--Publisher's description.
70) One summer night
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[2021]
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"This science rhyming picture book for young readers captures the drama of turtle hatchlings trying to follow the Moon to make their way to the ocean. But what will happen if the Moon doesn't shine brightly the night they hatch or lights from nearby homes distract them? How will they get to the ocean in time? Backmatter details the lifecycle of a turtle and the seven turtle species."--Publisher's description.
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Get the Summary of Scott Cook's Tokyo Express in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Tokyo Express" by Scott Cook is a World War II novel that follows the high-stakes missions of American submarine crews in the Pacific Theater. Admiral Charles A. Lockwood assigns a critical mission, Operation Switch Track, to disrupt the Japanese supply line known as the Tokyo Express. Submarine officers, including Art Turner of the...
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Excerpt: "On the afternoon of this same day of Tuesday, October 31, Helga having gone to her cabin, I stepped on deck to smoke a pipe-for my pipe was in my pocket when I ran to the lifeboat, and Captain Bunting had given me a square of tobacco to cut up. We had dined at one. During the course of the meal Helga and I had said but very little, willing that the Captain should have the labour of talking. Nor did he spare us. His tongue, as sailors say,...
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William Seafarer, the new helmsman on an old trading galleon, embarks on a mysterious voyage filled with pirates, sorcerers and sea monsters. He discovers that the secretive captain holds a treasure map encoded with ancient, mystical symbols. This lively nautical fantasy lifts up time-venerated heroic themes as seen through the eyes of a wise, courageous Seafarer. Come aboard!
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Excerpt: "I will pass by all the explanations concerning the reasons of my going to sea, as I do not desire to forfeit your kind patience by letting this story stand. Enough if I say that after I had been fairly well grounded in English, arithmetic and the like, which plain education I have never wearied of improving by reading everything good that came in my way, I was bound apprentice to a respectable man named Joshua Cox, of Whitby, and[2] served...
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Sometimes all we need is bursts of short stories that can take us to a different world in times of uncertainty and despair, even if just for a little bit of escapism. In this book, we get to read short stories from different genres and different authors' backgrounds, giving us a chance to explore new tastes in storytelling from modern Emirati setting, fantasy, science fiction, and modern Western settings, and many more. Join us on a journey of exploring...
77) The Vandals
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Twilight falls as the hardy crew of sea adventurers approaches the abandoned island. Don't call them pirates. They're vandals. Taking advantage of lost loot in unexpected places. This island is deserted. Once occupied by a lord and his family, it's now empty. But what riches might the lord have left behind?
Riches...or nightmares.
Baldric and his crew are sailing in to find out.
A thrilling sea adventure by Kala M. Light explores the ever-present...
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The adventure centers its story on Lara and Julio, a newly married couple seeking to escape the burden of technology and the massiveness of modern life, who embarks in Ushuaia on a so-called "barefoot cruise" in the year 2213 to Cape Horns and on a themed voyage set in 1933, to an adventure honeymoon on an old historical wooden schooner launched that same year called Destino. In it, together with Álvaro, a brave and particular...
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The Frozen Pirate is the story of Paul Rodney, a sailor who narrowly escapes death by shipwreck and exposure in the Straits of Magellan. Surmounting that peril, he faces another: Embedded in the Antarctic ice is an ancient vessel, filled with what seem to be frozen, contorted corpses. But the ship is a pirate ship, and the corpses aren't dead. When one of them revives, Rodney must fend off (and cooperate with, if he hopes to survive) one of the most...
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Excerpt from THE SMUGGLERS OF THE CLONE BY S. R. CROCKETT: "'Rise, Robin, rise! The partans are on the sands!' The crying at our little window raised me out of a sound sleep, for I had been out seeing the Myreside lasses late the night before, and was far from being wake-rife at two by the clock on a February morning. It was the first time the summons had come to me, for I was then but young. Hitherto it was my brother John who had answered the raising...
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