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In the heart of the sea: the epic true story that inspired Moby Dick
By Nathaniel Philbrick. 2000
The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century which was the inspiration…
for Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick". The author uses a hitherto unknown diary of one of the survivors discovered in an attic in Connecticut in 1998 to tell the tale. 2000.Ice ghosts: the epic hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
By Paul Watson. 2017
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845--whose two ships and crew of 129…
were lost to the Arctic ice--with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Watson tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and the crew of the HMS Erebus and Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered, the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of Western civilization, and the decades of searching that turned up only rumours of cannibalism and a few scattered papers and bones--until a combination of faith in Inuit lore and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages. Bestseller. 2017.I survived true stories: nature attacks! (I survived. #2)
By Lauren Tarshis. 2015
True stories of real kids up against terrible forces of nature. From the 14-year-old lone survivor of the shark attacks…
of 1916, to the 9-year-old who survived the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, here are four unforgettable survivors who managed to beat the odds. Grades 3-6. 2015.Ice wreck
By Lucille Recht Penner. 2001
Describes the true story of British explorer Shackleton's attempted 1914 expedition to Antarctica. When the ship was caught in the…
frozen sea, he and his crew experienced an eighteen-month ordeal, during which they camped on ice floes and lived on an island. Grades 2-4. 2001.Eiger dreams: ventures among men and mountains
By Jon Krakauer. 2009
Twelve accounts of mountaineering feats by the author of “Into Thin Air” (DC16741). In the title piece, Krakauer and a…
younger companion are waiting out bad weather conditions before assaulting the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland. Some strong language. 2009, c1990.An omnibus of historic shipwrecks, ranging from the demise of the Titanic to the mid-eighteenth-century burning at sea of a…
French East Indiaman. The conduct of those aboard the doomed vessels has ranged from the mass murder committed by the captain of the Meduse to the heroism of Captain Carlsen's refusal to desert the Flying Enterprise until she sank underneath him. Hood illuminates ship operation, nautical terms and historical context, so readers have a clear idea of not only what happened but why. 2006.Floreana: a woman's pilgrimage to the Galapagos
By Margret Wittmer. 1961
A first-hand account of a young German couple's determination to live a pure and simple life on an isolated island…
in the Galapagos in the 1930s. Visited by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Thor Heyerdahl, this is a story of survival, desperation, love, and possibly murder. 1961.Along the edge of America
By Peter Jenkins. 1995
Jenkins hit a low period after his divorce. Even though he had no boating experience, the cure he chose was…
taking a boat trip along the Gulf Coast. Jenkins describes the people and places he discovered during the two years he spent on the small boat, which he named Cooper after the dog who accompanied him on some of his earlier journeys. 1995.Hurricane!
By Celia Godkin. 2008
Along Florida's coast, people board up their homes and the animals head inland - a hurricane is coming. When it…
reaches land, howling winds uproot trees and homes with equal ease, and storm surges devastate the town. Then, after the eerie quiet of the hurricane's eye, the winds howl again, toppling structures that had survived the first onslaught and washing away the remains. But even as the last of the storm dies down, the process of renewal gradually begins. Grades 2-4. 2008.Coke stop in Emo: adventures of a long-distance paddler
By Alec Ross. 1995
In 1987, Alec Ross launched his canoe from the same spot at Lachine, just west of Montreal, which the voyageurs…
used when they set out on their quest for furs. For Ross, it was the beginning of an 8,000 kilometre journey to follow their routes, and continue to a west coast which they had never imagined. 1995.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.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.Have a little faith: a true story
By Mitch Albom. 2009
The book begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.…
Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival. 2009.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.