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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.First peoples in a new world: colonizing Ice Age America
By David J. Meltzer. 2009
Archaeologist explores the origins of the first North Americans, their migratory routes into the New World, and the ecological conditions…
they encountered. Discusses the methods used by archaeologists, geologists, linguists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists to arrive at these conclusions - which are often at odds. 2009.Fingerprints of the gods: The Evidence Of Earth's Lost Civilization
By Graham Hancock. 1995
The author compiles compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that he argues was destroyed from human memory.…
To do this he used data from archaeology, astronomy, geology and computer analysis of ancient myths. 1995.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.Egypt before the pharaohs: the prehistoric foundations of Egyptian civilization
By Michael A Hoffman. 1979
Death and deliverance: the haunting true story of the Hercules crash at the North Pole
By Robert Mason Lee. 1992
Dying every day: Seneca at the court of Nero
By James S Romm. 2014
Explores the moral struggles, political intrigues and violent vendettas that enmeshed Seneca, the ancient Roman writer and philosopher, in the…
brutal daily lives of the imperial family and the regime of his student, Nero. 2014.Desperate hours: the epic rescue of the Andrea Doria
By Richard Goldstein. 2001
A dramatic moment-by-moment account of the crash that caused the sinking of the "Andrea Doria" and the remarkable rescue of…
all but 46 of the ship's 1662 passengers and crew, widely known as the greatest sea rescue of all time. 2001.Classical mythology: the Romans (The modern scholar)
By Peter Meineck. 2005
In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck examines, in detail, the way in which military power, colonial organization,…
superior technology, a well-organized infrastructure, and a cohesive economic system helped to make Rome such a successful empire. These elements of Roman genius are well known, but it was the very idea of Rome that proved persuasive and this Roman ideal was born from mythology. 2005.Dangerous waters: one man's search for adventure
By David Philpott. 1985
The author, head of a billion-dollar corporation, left his old life and set out alone in a 30-foot sailboat. He…
travelled from Halifax to Bermuda and into the open Atlantic where his boat was wrecked in a storm. 1985.Black wave: a family's adventure at sea and the disaster that saved them
By Jean Silverwood, John Silverwood, Malcolm McConnell. 2008
When John and Jean Silverwood, both experienced sailors, decided to give their four children a taste of life on the…
high seas, they hoped the trip would offer important learning experiences. But aboard their fifty-five-foot catamaran, the Silverwood family struggled with family and marriage dynamics in compressed quarters alongside the terrifying forces of nature. Then, just when it seemed that they had mastered every challenge, their world was shattered in a split second of sheer horror. 2008.