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Treasure Island revisited
By Jack Fitzgerald. 2005
The story of Captain Keating and the Cocos Island treasure, also known as "The lost treasure of Lima", was the…
inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island". Hundreds of adventurers from all over the world, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sought Keating's treasure, estimated to be worth three hundred million dollars. An examination of the tale of Captain Keating, and of the connections between his story and Stevenson's classic. 2005.Treasure of the Atocha: A 16 Year Undersea Adventure
By R. Duncan Mathewson. 1986
Recounts the search for the "Atocha", a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Florida in 1622. It was…
found in the Florida Keys in 1985, with gold, silver and other treasures intact. 1986.Touching the void
By Joe Simpson. 1988
Joe Simpson and his partner, Simon Yates, had reached the summit of the previously unclimbed West Face of the remote…
Siula Grande in Peru, before disaster struck. What happened, and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a quite extraordinary and moving book. Some strong language. 1997.Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward Larson tells the story of three simultaneous expeditions in 1909--by Robert Peary, Douglas Mawson, and Luigi…
Amedeo--that reached the ends of the earth, setting records for the farthest north, south, and altitude. 2018.Tin-pots and pirate ships: Canadian naval forces and German sea raiders, 1880-1918
By Michael L Hadley, Roger F Sarty. 1991
The authors chart the origins of the Canadian Navy from the late 1800's to the end of World War One.…
Known as "The Bum Boat Fleet", the 200 ships, fisheries cruisers and private yachts reflected both Canada's real need for a navy in the face of the German imperialist threat, and Britain's reluctance to send much help. Tin Pots and Pirate Ships reveals the Canadian tradition of building a fleet only when needed, dismantling it once the conflict is over, and ultimately accepting terms dictated by alliance partners. c1991.Thetis down: the slow death of a submarine
By Tony Booth. 2008
On 1 June 1939 His Majesty's Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Ninety-nine men drowned…
or slowly suffocated during their last fifty hours of life. Very little was know until now, about what actually happened, as the only comprehensive book written on the subject was published in 1958. This book explores in minute detail a more rounded picture of what really happened before, during and after her tragic loss. c2008.The Wreck of the Titanic foretold?
By Martin Gardner. 1986
A collection of writings published prior to the sinking of the "Titanic", which are purported to be proof of paranormal…
powers of precognition. The author, a sceptic to ESP, disagrees with these assumptions. c1986.The wreck at Sharpnose Point: unraveling the mystery of the Caledonia's final voyage
By Jeremy Seal. 2001
While walking through the Morwenstow graveyard in Cornwall, the author encounters the wooden figurehead of a merchant ship. He learns…
that she adorned the Caledonia, a ship wrecked on the English coast in 1842, and that the crew had been benevolently buried there by the villagers. Further investigation leads him to suspect those villagers, and chiefly the village's parson, Robert Hawker, for the Caledonia's sudden demise. 2001.The voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the discovery of North America
By P. L Firstbrook. 1997
Five hundred years after John Cabot sailed from England to "New Founde Land" in the Matthew the anniversary of his…
journey was celebrated with a recreation of the trip. The Matthew was painstakingly reconstructed and sailed across the Atlantic in 1997. Firstbrook tells the story of the first voyage and of the preparations for the second. 1997.The voyage of the Armada: the Spanish story
By David Armine Howarth. 1981
The vicious Vikings
By Terry Deary, Nick Baker. 2003
This book contains frightening facts about the vicious Vikings and their savage Saxon enemies - from cruel kings and vengeful…
Viking warriors to the suffering slaves, the thralls. It'll tell you why some vicious Vikings had names like Fat-thighs, Oaf and Stinking, how to build a vicious Viking longboat and which Viking god dressed up as a woman. Grades 4-7. 2003.The Valencia tragedy
By Michael C Neitzel. 1995
A tragic shipwreck occurred on the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1906. This book explains why onlookers and rescue…
ships withheld assistance and condemned the eighty passengers on board the "Valencia" to a lingering, lonely death. 1995.The town of Hercules: a buried treasure trove
By Joseph Jay Deiss. 1974
Reconstructs the summer day in 79 a.d. when Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying the town of Herculaneum. Tells of the rediscovery…
of the town and the exciting archaeological digs of recent centuries. Grades 5-8. 1974.The 'Tigris' expedition: in search of our beginnings
By Thor Heyerdahl. 1980
The true story of an epic voyage in a boat made of reeds from the Gulf into the Indian Ocean.…
It tells of terrifying encounters with supertankers and bandits, and of the political dispute which led to the ceremonial burning of the boat. At the heart of the expedition is an anthropological theory which gives an added edge to this real life adventure. 1980.The third man factor: the secret to survival in extreme environments
By John Geiger. 2009
Trader Ron DiFrancesco in the World Trade Center, diver Stephanie Schwabe, Sir Ernest Shackleton: All shared an experience that an…
unseen being helped them to survive against staggering odds. If it were just a handful of people, it might be dismissed, but in fact, this phenomenon has occurred again and again. Some strong language. 2009.The Teheran contract
By Gayle Rivers, James Hudson. 1981
The spotted sphinx
By Joy Adamson. 1969
The author, famous for her epic of Elsa, the Kenyan lioness, tells of her efforts to restore Pippa, a tame…
cheetah, to its natural wild heritage. Followed by "Pippa's challenge" (DC33139). 1969.The sourdough and the queen: the many lives of Klondike Joe Boyle
By Leonard Taylor. 1983
Recounts the life of Joseph Boyle, a sailor, sports promoter, diplomat, soldier and spy. He knew such people as diamond…
Jim Brady, Robert Service, the Rothschilds, King George V, and Queen Marie of Rumania who was the great love of his life. c1983.The snow leopard
By Peter Matthiessen. 2003
1973. Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan…
blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one, with a deepening Buddhist understanding of reality, suffering, impermanence, and beauty. 2003.The shining mountain: two men on Changabang's west wall
By Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker. 1984
Recounts the endurance and determination of two British mountain climbers in making a forty-day ascent up the treacherous west wall…
of Changabang Mountain in the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 1984.