Astounding Sea Stories : Fifteen Ripping Good Tales (eBook)

Fifteen Ripping Good Tales

Tom McCarthy (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
280 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-944824-25-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Sit back, relax, and test your mettle with some of the heartiest sailors in history.

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Great writings about adventure, danger, and survivalfrom fiction classics to the official report on the Titanic. Including both fiction and nonfiction, this collection is a fascinating read for those who imagine testing their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, searching for the Northwest Passage with Franklin's doomed crew, or battling angry pirates. You'll find true accounts by stoic and hardy sailors who persevered in the face of travails that would have given even Job pauseas well as vivid and exciting fiction by Jack London, Herman Melville, Arthur Conan Doyle, and more.

Autor

Tom McCarthy first sailed on the Great Lakes, where he grew up. Since then he's added the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and the northern Atlantic off Maine and Cape Cod to his resume. He lives in Guilford, Connecticut.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.8.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Deutschland
• Schlagworte: Adventure • adventures on the high sea • affectation • aft • anchored • armchairs • Arthur Conan Doyle • Astonishing • Atlantic Ocean • beheaded • books about adventures • books about living on the open water • books about living on the open water" • books about sailing • books about the ocean • books like treasure island • books of stories • books on armchairs • books on defoe • books on horations • books on hornblower • books on insites • books on mettles • books on navies • books on shackleton • books on shore-sides • books on storys • Captain • Charles Dickens • cirvumnavigation • Columbus • crewed • custom-made • Defoe • digitally • entertainingly • excerpted • excitement • famous authors • fared • first mate • Fishing • frankness • frozen north • galleons • horation • Hornblower • impaired • Insite • Jack London • Luxury • magellen • Mast • Melville • mettle • Moby Dick • mutinous • mutiny • Navy • ocean tales • oil lamps • Pacific Ocean • Pirates of the carribean • poop deck • Poverty • prow • Sailboats • sailor • salt-water • scurvy • seafarer • Seaman • seamen • "sea-stories • sea stories • sea-stories • Shackleton • Ships • ship wreck • shipwrecks • Shocking • shore-side • starboard • Stern • Storys • Survival • thirst • Titanic • Tragedy • Treasure Island • vicarious living • Victor Hugo • Water • Whale hunting • Whale rider • Yachts • yo ho ho
• ISBN-10: 1-944824-25-1 / 1944824251
• ISBN-13: 978-1-944824-25-9 / 9781944824259