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Farthest north: the epic adventure of a visionary explorer
By Fridtjof Nansen. 2018
In 1893 Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to…
be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. "Farthest North", first published in 1897, is the stirring first-person account of the Fram and her historic voyage. 2018. Uniform title: Fram over Polhavet.Dollars and sense: how we misthink money and how to spend smarter
By Dan Ariely, Jeff Kreisler. 2017
Exploring a wide range of everyday topics--from credit card debt and household budgeting to holiday sales--Ariely and Kreisler demonstrate how…
our ideas about dollars and cents are often wrong and cost us more than we know. Mixing case studies and anecdotes with tangible advice and lessons, they cut through the unconscious fears and desires driving our worst financial instincts and teach us how to improve our money habits. 2017.Following the sea
By Benjamin Doane. 1987
"Following the sea" is a manuscript written in the 19th century which describes the adventures of a Nova Scotia sailor's…
life at sea during the mid-1800s. The narration provides a unique insight into the sailing vessels of the Maritimes, and the men who sailed them. Includes an appendix which provides information on vessels mentioned in the manuscript, and a glossary of nautical and whaling terms. 1988, c1987.Great Bear: a journey remembered
By Frederick B Watt. 1980
Flight of the Vin Fiz
By E. P Stein. 1985
Gales of November: the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By Robert J Hemming. 1981
The loss of a ship on Lake Superior in 1975, immortalized by Gordon Lightfoot's song "The wreck of the Edmund…
Fitzgerald," is described in this book which also examines the lives of the crew and their families, and the official investigations of the tragedy. 1981.Flight of passage
By Rinker Buck. 1997
Recounts the coast-to-coast flight of two teenage aviators in 1966. Piloting a restored three-hundred-dollar Piper Cub, the New Jersey brothers…
followed the route blazed by their barnstorming father in the early 1940s. Chronicles the boys' adventures aloft and during stops en route. Strong language. c1997.Financial expert Carrick targets young adults graduating from university or college and moving into the workforce, the housing market and…
family life. Offers information on saving for a post-secondary education and paying off student debts, establishing a credit rating, basic banking and budgeting, car and home buying, and insurance. c2012.How to buy money: investing wisely for maximum return
By Wayne F Nelson. 1981
A Merrill Lynch vice-president shows beginning investors how to put their money to work most efficiently. He outlines the risks…
and rewards of various securities, from U.S. treasury issues to the bond market. Several chapters explain tax-saving investments and the stock market. c1981.Fitzgerald's storm: the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
By Joseph B MacInnis. 1997
MacInnis reconstructs the final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the events leading up to its sinking in Lake Superior.…
He also recounts the stories of the families left behind, the inquest into the sinking, and the journey to the bottom of the lake to see the wreckage over fifteen years after she went down. 1997.Grey seas under
By Farley Mowat. 1958
Godforsaken sea: racing the world's most dangerous waters
By Derek Lundy. 1998
During the 1996-97 Vendee Globe round-the-world single-handed yacht race, Canadian sailor Gerry Roufs lost his life. Fourteen men and 2…
women began the race in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. Six officially finished, 6 others withdrew or were disqualified for seeking help, 3 were pulled from sinking boats, and one disappeared without a trace. This tale follows their round-the-world journeys from beginning to ending, successful or otherwise. 1998.Ghostliners: exploring the world's greatest lost ships
By Robert D Ballard. 1998
Robert Ballard, who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, explores other famous lost ships. The Titanic's sister ship the Britannic…
is now the largest wreck on the ocean floor, while the Lusitania, sunk by a German torpedo during World War I, is shrouded in mystery. Grades 3-6. 1998.Great railway journeys of the world
By Michael Frayn. 1982
Seven writers set out to prove that the great days of rail travel are not yet dead. After travelling across…
continents and zigzagging across familiar territory via unfamiliar routes, they testify that the romance of the rails still survives. 1982.Great ship disasters
By A. A Hoehling. 1971
Flight to Arras (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
By William Rees, Antoine de Saint Exupéry. 1995
Fiscal fitness: a guide to personal finance for all stages of life
By Paul Tyers, G. Pierce Newman. 1999
Endgame: the end of the debt supercycle and how it changes everything (Your coach in a box)
By John Mauldin, Jonathan Tepper. 2011
Maudlin and Tepper take listeners on a comprehensive, sobering, and even-handed tour through the debt/credit crisis currently gripping the world.…
They show that the financial mess that seemingly peaked with the crash of Lehman Brothers was merely the 50-year-in-the-making first part of a greater crisis that looms over the horizon. They further outline the tough choices that will have to be made in order to end this cycle of economic stagnation. 2011.Endurance: Shackleton's incredible voyage
By Alfred Lansing, Simon Prebble. 2007
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a…
continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. 2007.