Adrift At Sea

Author : Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781772780055

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Adrift at Sea by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Pdf

It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded with 60 Vietnamese refugees drifts. The motor has failed; the hull is leaking; the drinking water is nearly gone. This is the dramatic true story recounted by Tuan Ho, who was six years old when he, his mother, and two sisters dodged the bullets of Vietnam’s military police for the perilous chance of boarding that boat. Told to multi-award-winning author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and illustrated by the celebrated Brian Deines, Tuan’s story has become Adrift At Sea, the first picture book to describe the flight of Vietnam’s “Boat People” refugees. Illustrated with sweeping oil paintings and complete with an expansive historical and biographical section with photographs, this non-fiction picture book is all the more important as the world responds to a new generation of refugees risking all on the open water for the chance at safety and a new life.

Author : Steven Callahan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780547526560

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Adrift by Steven Callahan Pdf

Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.

Author : Jonathan Franklin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501116292

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438 Days by Jonathan Franklin Pdf

The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.

Author : Tami Oldham Ashcraft
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062868190

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Adrift [Movie tie-in] by Tami Oldham Ashcraft Pdf

New York Times Bestseller The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest). “An inspirational and empowering read.”—Shailene Woodley Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami’s hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn’t anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. They found themselves battling pounding rain, waves the size of skyscrapers, and 140 knot winds. Richard tethered himself to the boat and sent Tami below to safety, and then all went eerily quiet. Hours later, Tami awakened to find the boat in ruins, and Richard nowhere in sight. Adrift is the story of Tami’s miraculous forty-one-day journey to safety on a ravaged boat with no motor and no masts, and with little hope for rescue. It’s a tale of love and survival on the high seas-- an unforgettable story about resilience of the human spirit, and the transcendent power of love.

Author : Paul Griffin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545709415

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Adrift by Paul Griffin Pdf

From critically acclaimed writer Paul Griffin comes a fast-paced young adult novel about five very different teens lost at sea with no one to count on but each other. Matt and John are best friends working out in Montauk for the summer. When Driana, JoJo and Stef invite the boys to their Hamptons mansion, Matt and John find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. The newfound friends head out into the Atlantic after midnight in a stolen boat. None of them come back whole, and not all of them come back.Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard an antique ship that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel weakens, things go horribly wrong. Adrift at sea for days, who will have what it takes to survive?

Author : Peter Muilenburg
Publisher : Afro-Indies Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Atlantic Coast (Africa, West)
ISBN : 0976139707

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Adrift on a Sea of Blue Light by Peter Muilenburg Pdf

Author : Tracey Williams
Publisher : Unicorn
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Beachcombing
ISBN : 1913491196

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Adrift by Tracey Williams Pdf

In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly five million pieces of Lego, much of it sea themed. In the months that followed, beachcombers started to find Lego washed up on beaches across the south west coast. Among the pieces they discovered were octopuses, sea grass, spear guns, life rafts, scuba tanks, cutlasses, flippers and dragons. The pieces are still washing up today.

Author : Tami Oldham Ashcraft,Susea Mcgearhart
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0786886765

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Red Sky In Mourning by Tami Oldham Ashcraft,Susea Mcgearhart Pdf

New available in paperback, a true-life adventure story with everything: page-turning suspense, remarkable acts of courage, wrenching despair, and a triumphant, life-affirming ending. Red Sky in Mourning is the story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft's 41-day journey to safety, which she survived through fortitude and sheer strength of character. Interspersed with flashbacks to her romance with her doomed fiance Richard, this survival story offers an inspiring reminder that even in our darkest moments we are never truly alone.

Author : Brian Murphy
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306901997

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Adrift by Brian Murphy Pdf

A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only one would survive. This is his story. As they started their nine days adrift more than four hundred miles off Newfoundland, the castaways--an Irish couple and their two boys, an English woman and her daughter, newlyweds from Ireland, and several crewmen, including Thomas W. Nye from Fairhaven, Massachusetts--began fighting over food and water. One by one, though, day by day, they died. Some from exposure, others from madness and panic. In the end, only Nye and the ship's log survived. Using Nye's firsthand descriptions and later newspaper accounts, ship's logs, assorted diaries, and family archives, Brian Murphy chronicles the horrific nine days that thirteen people suffered adrift on the cold gray Atlantic. Adrift brings readers to the edge of human limits, where every frantic decision and desperate act is a potential life saver or life taker.

Author : Holly Cefrey
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0516243306

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Steven Callahan by Holly Cefrey Pdf

Introduces the sailing enthusiast and boat designer, Steven Callahan, who struggled to survive after his small sailboat, the "Napoleon Solo," sank into the Atlantic Ocean.

Author : Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780986949548

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Last Airlift by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Pdf

Recounts the story of Tuyet Son Thi Ahn, a girl from a Saigon orphanage who is airlifted out of Saigon in spring of 1975, and finally adopted by a Canadian family.

Author : Bill Butler
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0071438742

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66 Days Adrift by Bill Butler Pdf

One of the great ocean survival stories of all time.

Author : Dougal Robertson
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0924486732

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Survive the Savage Sea by Dougal Robertson Pdf

This is an account of a British family's 37-day fight to survive the perils of the Pacific after their schooner is attacked and sunk by killer whales.

Author : V Sudarshan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789350096413

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ADRIFT by V Sudarshan Pdf

When Commander Baath takes his French guests, with his crew of four, on a dive trip off Sir Hugh Rose Island, 20 nautical miles from Port Blair, it turns out to be the wrong day for a sea adventure. The calm sea, an endless liquid mirror before they dived, turns rough when they surface in an hour, as a violent storm looms over them. What was supposed to be a day trip turns into an endless drifting in the Andaman Sea thick with pirates, without a sense of direction or sight of land. Adrift follows their terrifying ordeal, battling hunger and thirst, and most of all their sanity, as they encounter the primal face of nature. Based on a real incident, Adrift is a gripping tale of survival, perseverance and fortitude.

Author : William A. Butler,Bill Butler,Simonne Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0963251902

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Our Last Chance by William A. Butler,Bill Butler,Simonne Butler Pdf

The author chronicles his and his wife's nine desperate weeks adrift in the Pacific on a six-foot raft, twelve hundred miles from land with little food and surrounded by sharks, after their intended circumnavigation of the globe was cut short by a whale attack upon their sloop.