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Author : Andrew Chapman,Steve Jackson
Publisher : Puffin HC
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0140319514
Author : Donald M. Kehn
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781616732387
On the morning of March 1, 1942, the WWI-era destroyer USS Edsall—under orders to deliver some forty Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of Java—split off from the USS Whipple and the tanker Pecos and was never seen again by Allied forces. Despite the later discovery of bodies identified as Edsall crew members near a remote airfield on the coast of Celebes, what happened to the ship remains a matter of mystery and, perhaps, deliberate obfuscation. This book explores the many puzzling facets of the Edsall’s disappearance in order to finally tell the full story of the fate of the vessel and her crew. Based on exhaustive research of the historical record—including newly deciphered Japanese documents and previously unrevealed material from the crew’s family members—A Blue Sea of Blood offers a painstaking reconstruction of the ship’s history. The book investigates not only the Edsall’s mysterious final action, but also her wide-ranging pre-war career and the curious uses to which her story was put—generally under false pretenses—first by the pre-war US Navy and then by the Japanese wartime propaganda machine. And finally, military historian Donald Kehn considers the circumstances surrounding the curious obscurity of the Edsall’s heroic service and final battle in American histories. Redressing six decades of official indifference, Kehn’s account recovers a significant chapter missing from the history of World War II—and tells a long-overdue story of courage and tragic loss.
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848584969
The modern image of the pirate is derived from Captain Charles Johnson's accounts of the cut-throats who sailed under the Jolly Roger. It was he who gave mythical status to the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd. Using contemporary sources, Nigel Cawthorne now turns the spotlight on the reality of pirate life, revealing the truth behind the legends. It gives us an insight into the men - and women - their weapons, their ships, their unhappy victims and their hide-outs, including the capital city of the pirate 'empire', Port Royal in Jamaica - known as the 'wickedest city in the world'.
Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
These Straggling, Excited Groups Were Mainly Composed Of Men With Green Boughs In Their Hats And The Most Ludicrous Of Weapons In Their Hands. Some, It Is True, Shouldered Fowling Pieces, And Here And There A Sword Was Brandished; But More Of Them Were Armed With Clubs, And Most Of Them Trailed The Mammoth Pikes Fashioned Out Of Scythes, As Formidable To The Eye As They Were Clumsy To The Hand. There Were Weavers, Brewers, Carpenters, Smiths, Masons, Bricklayers, Cobblers, And Representatives Of Every Other Of The Trades Of Peace Among These Improvised Men Of War. Bridgewater, Like Taunton, Had Yielded So Generously Of Its Manhood To The Service Of The Bastard Duke That For Any To Abstain Whose Age And Strength Admitted Of His Bearing Arms Was To Brand Himself A Coward Or A Papist...FROM THE BOOKS.
Author : Norman Springer
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066132996
"The Blood Ship" by Norman Springer is a sea adventure seen through the eyes of a nineteen-year-old bully of a boy, Jack. Treasure in the strong room, desperate crew members, a fiendish spy, a woe-begone parson, and a mutinous plot to take over the ship are constants in the background which add tension to the story and make it feel even more realistic to readers of this high-seas adventure.
Author : Bathsheba Demuth
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393635171
A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between capitalism, communism, and Arctic ecology since the dawn of the industrial age. Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years. The first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada, Floating Coast breaks away from familiar narratives to provide a fresh and fascinating perspective on an overlooked landscape. The unforgiving territory along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans—the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia—before Americans and Europeans arrived with revolutionary ideas for progress. Rapidly, these frigid lands and waters became the site of an ongoing experiment: How, under conditions of extreme scarcity, would the great modern ideologies of capitalism and communism control and manage the resources they craved? Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, as well as from archival sources, Demuth shows how the social, the political, and the environmental clashed in this liminal space. Through the lens of the natural world, she views human life and economics as fundamentally about cycles of energy, bringing a fresh and visionary spin to the writing of human history. Floating Coast is a profoundly resonant tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that immense human needs and ambitions have brought, and will continue to bring, to a finite planet.
Author : Diane Tullson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554696970
Fourteen-year-old Libby didn't want to go on a year long sailing adventure with her mother and her stepfather, Duncan, and she isn't about to let them forget it. Traveling through the Red Sea, Libby causes them to be late and make a dangerous crossing alone. When modern-day pirates attack, Duncan is killed and Libby's mother is left seriously injured and unconscious. Libby is left alone on a crippled boat to find safety and help for her mother. Libby must call on all her strength and face some hard truths about herself if she is to survive and reach land. A thrilling tale of one girl's struggle for survival against the elements and her inner demons, Red Sea is adventure writing at its best.
Author : Mike Tinney,Justin Achilli
Publisher : White Wolf Games Studio
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-28
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 1565043545
Though vampires have their intrigues, werewolves have their wars, mages have their realities, wraiths have their passions and changelings seek to return to their homeland, there are supernatural powers at work in the world that concern all of these beings. Indeed, there are people and forces in the world of Darkness that endanger all those who exist. Learn the secrets, alliances, enemies and plans of these shadowy beings in a series of world of Darkness books that can be integrated into all of the storyteller games. Learn what supernatural horrors lurk beneath the sea.
Author : Steve Jackson,Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 0140321276
Covers the turbulent history of the planet Titan, from its early civilizations, through the devestating war of the wizards, to the present-day wilderness and anarchy where the delicate balance between good and chaos could at any moment be overturned.
Author : A. E. Ross
Publisher : Ninestar Press, LLC
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1947904760
Raised on the high seas as an avaricious corsair, Aela Crane has turned her back on her roots, but she can't seem to stem the ancient magic that courses through her. Del is a soft-spoken soldier who seems to know more about Aela's inherited powers than she does. Brynne's the crofter's daughter who's reluctantly learning to become a princess, if she could just get a certain swashbuckling someone off her mind. Originally hired on (okay, blackmailed) by the King of the island nation of Thandepar, Aela's light monster extermination gig takes a fast turn into kidnapping-for-profit. Del tries to ignore family issues by searching for a long lost friend, and ends up getting both for the price of one. Brynne's prepared to give up her heart for her country until her own personal heartbreaker shows up with the most terrible timing. As the three of them become more entwined in their own political predicaments, and each other's lives, they may discover that the legacies their parents have left them aren't as solid as they seemed. In fact, they may just slip through their fingers, leaving all three fumbling to forge their own future, before the kingdom comes crashing down around them.
Author : Andrew Chapman,Steve Jackson,Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 0140318615
Author : Imperial War Museum
Publisher : Imperial War Museums
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1904897517
The major art installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London marked one hundred years since the first full day of Britain's involvement in the First World War. Created by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, 888,246 ceramic poppies progressively filled the Tower's famous moat between 17 July and 11 November 2014. Each poppy represented a British military fatality during the war. The poppies encircled the iconic landmark, creating a spectacular display visible from all around the Tower, which attracted more than 5 million visitors. The scale of the installation was intended to reflect the magnitude of such an important centenary and create a powerful visual commemoration. Featuring forewords by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper and stunning photography of the installation, The Poppies: Blood Red Lands and Seas of Red is the only official publication to mark this landmark event. As thousands of the poppies used in the installation tour the country during the remainder of the First World War Centenary, this publication will undoubtedly prove popular with visitors to both the Tower and the new venues alike.
Author : Anna Rainbow,Oli Hyatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912626772
Tiggy is a high-born girl on the Isle of Fortune, forced to wear dresses, attend balls and (worst of all) comb her wild curls. But then the Pirate King strikes, stealing every male child on the island. Tiggy knows it is time to claim her destiny, take to the high seas and rescue the boys of Fortune ...
Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher : iBooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0743458354
In this exciting work, an eminent authority on naval history offers a definitive account of one of the most critical naval battles of World War II in the Pacific.
Author : Steve Jackson,Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986-06-01
Category : Fighting fantasy (Game)
ISBN : 0440977088
The reader's choices determine the course of a pirate's battle with Abdul the Butcher to become King of the Pirates.
