The Mary Celeste

Author : Brian Hicks
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345466655

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Ghost Ship by Brian Hicks Pdf

On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed into history. In Brian Hicks’s skilled hands, the story of the Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew’s disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath—the dark suspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that intercepted her; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; the wild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a thinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery. Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has been hauled out to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. But, as Brian Hicks reveals, the truth is actually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the Mary Celeste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti. Written with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time.

Author : Valerie Martin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385533515

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The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin Pdf

Based on actual events about an American merchant vessel discovered off the coast of Spain in 1872, this novel—from the prize-winning author of Property—is a spellbinding exploration of love, nature, and the fictions that pass as truth. • “A sly and masterly historical novel, written with intelligence and flair.” —The New York Times Book Review 1872: the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste is discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo is intact and there is no sign of struggle, but her crew has disappeared, never to be found. As news of the derelict ghost ship spreads, the Mary Celeste captures imaginations around the world—from a Philadelphia spiritualist medium named Violet Petra to an unknown young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle. In a haunted, death-obsessed age, the Mary Celeste is by turns a provocative mystery, an inspiration to creativity, and the tragic story of a family doomed by the sea.

Author : Paul Begg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317865315

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Mary Celeste by Paul Begg Pdf

Mary Celeste is an iconic mystery - a perfectly seaworthy ship found wandering aimlessly at sea, her crew strangely and inexplicably missing. Paul Begg tells the story of the discovery of Mary Celeste and the people who vanished, and investigates over a century’s worth of speculation and survivors’ tales, searching for the facts behind one of the world’s great mysteries.

Author : Barbara Krasner
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680772418

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Mystery of the Mary Celeste by Barbara Krasner Pdf

Get closer to solving the mystery of the Mary Celeste with this riveting title. Learn about leading theories, important clues, and study the evidence to develop your on conclusions about the disappearance of this ship.

Author : Anita Nahta Amin
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781666320664

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The Mary Celeste Ghost Ship by Anita Nahta Amin Pdf

Author : Charles Edey Fay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494014106

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Mary Celeste by Charles Edey Fay Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 149740780X

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J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. A London-based "consulting detective" whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases. Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.

Author : Mary Celeste Kearney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135474799

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Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney Pdf

More girls are producing media today than at any other point in U.S. history, and they are creating media texts in virtually every format currently possible--magazines, films, musical recordings, and websites. Girls Make Media explores how young female media producers have reclaimed and reconfigured girlhood as a site for radical social, cultural, and political agency. Central to the book is an analysis of Riot Grrrl--a 1990s feminist youth movement from a fusion of punk rock and gender theory-and the girl power movement it inspired. The author also looks at the rise of girls-only media education programs, and the creation of girls' studies. This book will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary female youth in today's media culture.

Author : Mary Celeste Kearney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199359516

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Gender and Rock by Mary Celeste Kearney Pdf

Gender & Rock introduces readers to how gender operates in multiple sites within rock culture, including its music, imagery, technologies, and business practices. Additionally, it explores how rock culture, despite a history of regressive gender politics, has provided a place for musicians and consumers to experiment with alternate ways of being.

Author : Malcolm Pryce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408851937

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The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ Celeste by Malcolm Pryce Pdf

Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God's Wonderful Railway, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers and purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, German spies and ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous. It reaches up to the corridors of power and into the labyrinth of the greatest mystery in all the annals of railway lore – the disappearance in 1915 of twenty-three nuns from the 7.25 Swindon to Bristol Temple Meads, or the case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste. Shady government agents, drunken riverboat captains, a missing manuscript and a melancholic gorilla all collide on a journey that will take your breath away.

Author : Jane Yolen,Heidi E. Y. Stemple
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781665912914

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The Mary Celeste by Jane Yolen,Heidi E. Y. Stemple Pdf

In this spooky book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, set off on the high seas to a ghost ship left completely abandoned and adrift on the waves. The Mary Celeste was discovered adrift on the open sea by another ship in 1872—with no sign of captain or crew. What happened? Did the crew mutiny? Were they attacked by pirates? Caught in a storm? No one ever found out. Inside this book are the clues that were left behind and the theories of what people think happened aboard that ship. Become a detective, study the clues, and see if you can help solve this chilling mystery from history!

Author : Jane Yolen,Heidi E. Y. Stemple
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781665912969

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Roanoke, the Lost Colony by Jane Yolen,Heidi E. Y. Stemple Pdf

In this spine-tingling book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, journey to colonial America and discover the enduring mystery of the missing Roanoke Colony. In 1587 John White was chosen by Sir Walter Raleigh to lead a new colony at Roanoke off the Atlantic coast. After bringing many men, women, and children to the new land, White went back to England to gather supplies for the long winter. But when he finally returned to the fort almost three years later, he found that all of the colonists had vanished. The only signs of life left were the letters CRO carved into a tree and the word CROATOAN carved into one of the fort’s posts. Did the Spanish army capture the colonists? Did the colonists get in a battle with the native people—or join them? Did they try to follow John White to England and get lost at sea? Become a detective, study the clues, and see if you can help solve this chilling mystery from history!

Author : Paul Gallimore
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480129801

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The Mary Celeste Papers by Paul Gallimore Pdf

The Mary Celeste Papers is a laugh-out-loud, mystery novel, which bubbles up and explodes out of the grit and grime of a dead-end railroad depot in England. Follow the fates of a group of ultra-ordinary railwaymen as one of them happens across a mysterious ship's log and thereafter falls victim to a major crime. Scooped up by a tide of events way beyond their control, the unlikely band of heroes become the focus of a full-blown, worldwide, media whirlwind and all the while unanswered questions are piling up around them. Paul Gallimore's first novel is a hugely original fusion of ideas, where raw humour transmutes into whodunit, and science fiction blurs with cold fact. What is it that this delightful assortment of misfits has accidentally dragged out into the open? Did the US Navy really conduct a top secret experiment into invisibility in 1943? Just what did happen to the Mary Celeste? And will the truth finally lie somewhere in the ocean between Fulham and Philadelphia? The Mary Celeste Papers is an intelligent, well written, thought provoking funny book; filled to the brim with fully-formed, larger than life characters whose fortunes will grab your attention and hold it in a vice-like grip until the final page has been turned. The Mary Celeste Papers is a people book; about little guys on a big stage and you absolutely deserve to read it.

Author : Mary Celeste Kearney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mass media and culture
ISBN : 0415993458

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The Gender and Media Reader by Mary Celeste Kearney Pdf

'The Gender and Media Reader' is an interdisciplinary anthology of the most influential writings in gender and media studies. It provides a useful tool for those interested in the development of gender and media studies, its primary topics, debates and theoretical approaches.

Author : Gary Crew,Robert R. Ingpen
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : 0734407289

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In the Wake of the Mary Celeste by Gary Crew,Robert R. Ingpen Pdf

In December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift in the Atlantic. She was in full sail and in seaworthy condition, but had no crew aboard. So began one of the greatest mysteries of the sea. Why had the Mary Celeste been abandoned? Did the crew die in a mutiny? Or were more sinister forces to blame?