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Author : Carlton Stowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Gamblers
ISBN : 0963401580
Author : Kevin Cook
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393071153
Capturing the spirit of a freewheeling era, this rollicking biography brings to life the gambler-hero who inspired Guys and Dolls. Born in a log cabin in the Ozarks, Alvin "Titanic" Thompson (1892-1974) traveled with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash. He won and lost millions playing cards, dice, golf, pool, and dangerous games of his own invention. He killed five men and married five women, each one a teenager on her wedding day. He ruled New York's underground craps games in the 1920s and was Damon Runyon's model for slick-talking Sky Masterson. Dominating the links in the pre-PGA Tour years, Thompson may have been the greatest golfer of his time, teeing up with Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Lee Trevino, and Ray Floyd. He also traded card tricks with Houdini, conned Al Capone, lost a million to Minnesota Fats and then teamed up with Fats and won it all back. A terrific read for anyone who has ever laid a bet, Titanic Thompson recaptures the colorful times of a singular figure: America's original road gambler.
Author : Charles Pellegrino
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118191293
On the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen; the ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable. When it sank in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people, the world was forever changed and the public has been spellbound ever since. Now, a century later, the Titanic is about to disappear again: its infrastructure is set to collapse in the next few years. In this book, scientist Charles Pellegrino offers what may be the last opportunity to see the ship before it is lost to the seas for eternity. The last book to be written while survivors were still alive and able to contribute details, Farewell, Titanic includes many untold stories about the sinking and exploration of the unsinkable ship. Author Charles Pellegrino provided source material for James Cameron's Oscar-winning Titanic film, which is being re-released in 3D at the same time as the book Includes 16 pages of never-before-published full-color photographs of the sunken vessel Includes all-new information about the Titanic research that has been carried out in the last decade Written by a New York Times bestselling author who participated in the post-discovery analysis of the Titanic's remains during the expedition that immediately followed Robert Ballard's Titanic discovery in 1985
Author : Walter Lord
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0805077642
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.
Author : Morgan Robertson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547247845
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility" by Morgan Robertson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Melissa Stewart
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781430132585
This title is replete with brilliant photographs and exclusive in-depth coverage including Bob Ballard's 1985 discovery.
Author : Dan Jenkins
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781101873076
In Unplayable Lies, Dan Jenkins takes us on a tour of the links as only he can do it. Here, Dan delves into the greatest rounds of golf he's ever seen, the funniest things said on a golf course, the rivalries on tour and in the press box, the game's most magical moments—and its most absurd. Filled with well-known characters like Tiger Woods, to others like Titanic Thompson—gambler, golf hustler, accused murderer, legendary storyteller—Unplayable Lies is an ode to the game of golf and the people who play it. But it is Dan Jenkins, so nothing—even the game itself—can escape his wrath, his critical eye, or his acerbic pen. This is Dan Jenkins at his best, writing about the sport he loves the most.
Author : Allen Gibson
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0750981199
In this unparalleled investigation that deconstructs the modern hindsight that has tainted Titanic's legacy, Allen Gibson presents a comprehensive history with a refreshing argument, that Titanic represented a considerable achievement in maritime architecture. Telling the story of the 'unsinkable' ship against a backdrop of a tumultuous and rapidly emerging technological world, he exposes the people and the circumstances that contributed to the disaster, and the blame that went on in its aftermath. This expanded edition further unravels the mindset that willfully dispatched the world's largest ship out to sea with a famously deficient supply of lifeboats, and lays bare the technology so dramatically destroyed.
Author : Diamond Jim Tyler,Robert Zafran,Sue Coffman,Kathy Tyler,Jon Racherbaumer,Jeff Davis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486478913
"A professional performer presents tricks for magicians at every level of skill, especially novices. Intended for performances in bars, restaurants, and other close-up venues, these 29 routines include original tricks as well as tried-and-true crowd pleasers. Over 300 photographs illustrate clear instructions for illusions involving cards, money, fire, mind reading, and comedy"--
Author : Hugh Brewster
Publisher : Crown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307984715
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic’s elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers. The Titanic has often been called "An exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,” but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, historian Hugh Brewster seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner’s most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing. Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rarely seen photographs, he accurately depicts the ship’s brief life and tragic denouement and presents compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers: millionaires John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim; President Taft's closest aide, Major Archibald Butt; writer Helen Churchill Candee; the artist Frank Millet; movie actress Dorothy Gibson; the celebrated couturiere Lady Duff Gordon; aristocrat Noelle, the Countess of Rothes; and a host of other travelers. Through them, we gain insight into the arts, politics, culture, and sexual mores of a world both distant and near to our own. And with them, we gather on the Titanic’s sloping deck on that cold, starlit night and observe their all-too-human reactions as the disaster unfolds. More than ever, we ask ourselves, “What would we have done?”
Author : Doyle Brunson
Publisher : Cardoza Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781580424776
The story of Doyle Brunson, an American treasure and the greatest poker player of all time, is one for the ages. Its a story of guts and glory, of good luck and bad, of triumph and unspeakable tragedy, of courage and grace. He has survived whippings, gun fights, stabbings, mobsters (the real-life ones portrayed in the movie Casino), murderers, and a death sentence when, riddled with incurable cancer, he was given months to live by doctors who told him his hand was played out.A master of the bluff, his most outrageous bluff came after being pistol-whipped and told hes going to die with a gunman pointing a pistol at his forehead. Again, he lived. Brunson has seen it all: from the athletic dreams and a leg shattered by a freak injury which waylaid his path to the NBA (he was drafted by the Lakers), to the devastating death of his first-born daughter, to outrageous exploits like trying to discover Noah Ark and raise the Titanic. Doyles rollercoaster of a life defines the saying: Truth is stranger than fiction.Twice a winner of the prestigious World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, he's won millions and lost millions sometimes in seconds but decidedly more of the former than the latter. Brunson can still be found playing in the highest stakes poker games in the world, often with as much as one million dollars in front of him. To every one of the 250 million people worldwide who play poker each year, Doyle Brunson, is the legendary Babe Ruth of Poker the greatest gambler and poker player who has ever lived.
Author : Lori Fayre
Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839431517
FROM EXCITING ROMANCE AUTHOR LORI FAYRE An obsession with the past becomes his love story. Obsessed with RMS Titanic from a young age, Lucas Thompson has spent his life studying the shipwreck and turning his passion into a career in marine archeology. But, on the one-hundred-year anniversary of the voyage, he's drawn to the ship's resting place by a strange sonar ripple that hurtles him back in time. Luke wakes in the year 1912 as a passenger on the grandest ship in the world. It's there that he meets Quinton Hawthorne, the man who sacrificed himself to save passengers during the sinking, including Luke's great-grandmother. He also comes face-to-face with Lucinda Hughes, the very woman who raised him on her stories of the ship. With his inside knowledge of the impending disaster, Luke feels a responsibility to change history and develops a plan to save the doomed ship and its passengers. Things quickly fall apart as Luke begins to fall for Quinton, knowing that it can only end in heartbreak. Though he's determined to save Quinton, he's also faced with a dilemma. Should he save the ship or allow destiny to play out?
Author : Anthony Holden
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780349142449
BIG DEAL is the mesmerising story of a year spent by bestselling biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las Vegas, in Malta and Morocco, even shipboard, mingling with the legendary greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee, and learning a great deal about himself in the process. Poker, Holden would insist, is not gambling. Like chess it is a paradigm of life at its most intense, a gladiatorial contest that brings out the best as well as the worst in people. Its heroes, its eccentrics and is comedians stalk the pages of this remarkable book, along with all the hair-raising, nail-biting excitement of the games themselves. A classic of the genre, BIG DEAL is here reissued with a new introduction by the author.
Author : Leigh Montville
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767926508
John Montague was a boisterous enigma. In the 1930s, he was called “the world's greatest golfer” by famed sportswriter Grantland Rice. He could drive the ball 300 yards and more, or he could chip it across a room into a highball glass. He played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes and W. C. Fields to Babe Ruth and Bing Crosby. Yet strangely, he never entered a professional tournament or allowed himself to be photographed. Then, a Time magazine photographer snapped his picture with a telephoto lens and police quickly recognized Montague as a fugitive with a dark secret. From the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, to John Montague's extraordinary skill and triumphs on the golf course, to the shady world of Adirondack rumrunners and the most controversial, star-studded court trial of its day, The Mysterious Montague captures a man and an era with extraordinary color, verve, and energy.
Author : Bill Mallon,Randon Jerris
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0810874652
Historical Dictionary of Golf—through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, photos, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on people, places, teams, and terminology of the game—is a comprehensive history of golf.