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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.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
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.Explorers wanted!: in the jungle
By Simon Chapman. 2003
Explorers wanted to learn jungle survival, trek through rainforest, find lost cities, discover Indian tribes, encounter strange creatures, brave the…
sweltering heat, battle swarms of stinging insects and face constant danger. This book allows you to search of the lost city of Rucu-rumimarca and experience what it's really like to travel into the heart of the unexplored Amazon jungle. Grades 3-6. 2003.Finding Franklin: the untold story of a 165-year search
By Russell A Potter. 2016
In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified…
the wreck of the HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives from every walk of life that led to the discovery, solving of one of the Arctic's greatest mysteries. Potter details his decades of work alongside key figures in the era of modern searches for the expedition and elucidates how shared research and ideas have led to a fuller understanding of the Franklin crew's final months. Recounts the more than fifty modern searches for traces of his ships and crew, and the dedicated, often obsessive, men and women who embarked on them. Potter discusses the crucial role that Inuit oral accounts, often cited but rarely understood, played in all of these searches, and continues to play to this day, and offers historical and cultural context to the contemporary debates over the significance of Franklin's achievement. 2016.Fire on the mountain: the true story of the South Canyon fire
By John N Maclean. 1999
An account of the 1994 forest fire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain, which claimed the lives of fourteen elite firefighters,…
including four women. Reconstructs the human errors that compounded the natural disaster, mistakes made during the investigations that followed, and lessons to be learned. Includes strong language. 1999.Fastnet, force 10: the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing
By John Rousmaniere. 2000
303 yachts began the 1979 Fastnet Race but at the end of the race, fifteen people had died, twenty-four crews…
had abandoned ship, 136 people had been rescued and only 85 boats finished. 2000.Fair wind and plenty of it: a modern-day tall ship adventure
By Rigel Crockett. 2004
On November 25, 1997, the barque Picton Castle, a three-masted, square-rigged tall ship, headed out from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, on…
a voyage around the world. Captain Dan Moreland, driven by a desire to make his mark in the world of traditional sailing, rallied forces to convert a 69-year-old North Sea trawler into a seaworthy tall ship, and then assembled the crew to sail it. The author took part in the voyage and tells a tale of shipboard camaraderie, gut-wrenching struggles, and the near mutinies that marked the year-and-a-half journey. 2004.Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the…
White Nile. Using new research, Tim Jeal tells the story of these great expeditions, while also examining the tragic consequences the Nile search has had on Uganda and Sudan to this day. 2011.Extraordinary people: understanding "idiot savants"
By Darold A Treffert. 1989
People with Savant Syndrome have severe mental or physical disabilities, but have extraordinary skills in areas such as mathematics, music…
and art. The author details the lives and talents of several savants and attempts to explain how they are able to perform such feats. 1989.Enabling romance: a guide to love, sex, and relationships for the disabled (and the people who care about them)
By Erica Levy Klein, Ken Kroll. 1992
Written by a disabled husband and his nondisabled wife, this book explores romantic and sexual relationships for the disabled. They…
discuss ways disabled persons can achieve sexual pleasure and present sexual variations and alternatives. Chapters concern specific disabilities, including blindness and visual impairment, deafness and hearing impairment, spinal cord injuries, and multiple sclerosis. Explicit descriptions of sex. c1992.Death and deliverance: the haunting true story of the Hercules crash at the North Pole
By Robert Mason Lee. 1992