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81) The forever sea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kindred Greyreach, a hearth-fire keeper, navigates ongoing conflict, unknown beasts and a mythic pirate city after her grandmother, The Marchess, disappears into the Forever Sea, a miles-high expanse of prairie grasses sailed by magical ships harvesting resources for human civilization.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 8
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When their ship, the Lost, explodes, Bick, Beck, Tommy, and Storm are stranded on a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, but the situation worsens when the treasure hunters kidnap their parents, forcing the Kidd siblings to follow clues around the globe to uncover an ancient treasure and save their family.
83) The endless song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kindred Greyreach, at odds with a faction below the Sea, must use every power to forestall disaster, while, above, a boy named Flitch finds himself caught in a dangerous political crisis, and they must work together to save themselves, their loved ones, and the Forever Sea itself.
85) Man-of-war
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Text and cutaway illustrations depict life aboard a British warship of the Napoleonic era, covering such topics as work, leisure, discipline, navigating, and fighting.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Filled with full-page spreads of cross sections of ten intriguing working boats, this book provides a glimpse into their inner workings, as well as highlights of each boat's unique engineering components that enable it to do the job it was built for. Thebook includes illustrated details about each boat's mission and jobs people do on board, as well as a glimpse of what life is like on a working boat. Packed with information that's fun and practical,...
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious "graveyard of ships," Cape Horn.
A century later, Derek Lundy, author of the bestselling Godforsaken Sea and an accomplished amateur seaman himself, set out to recount his forebear's...
90) Tides of mutiny
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old girl hiding as a cabin boy must fight for her place in a world that executes female sailors, all while falling for a mysterious stowaway who could destroy everything"--
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this remarkable collection of illustrated private journals, log books, letters, and diaries, we follow firsthand the voyages of intrepid sailors from the frozen polar wastes to South Seas paradise islands. And we meet a fascinating cast of real characters: officers and crew, cooks and whalers, surgeons and artists, explorers and adventurers- including Antonio Pigafetta, an Italian who sailed with Magellan; Tupia, a Tahitian who joined Captain...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"John Masefield is one of the greatest storytellers of life at sea. Based on a recently rediscovered early manuscript, this collection of short stories, extracts from novels, autobiographical sketches, and poems, including the well-known works "Sea-Fever" and "Cargoes," illustrates the hardship, romance, and adventure of seafaring. Masefield's writing, masterful and captivating, is infused with a sailor's way with language and sense for a good yarn-about...
96) Fox and the box
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A fox sets out across the sea in a floating box on a grand adventure full of endless possibilities.
Author
Series
American maritime library volume 6
Pub. Date
[1973]
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Seafaring Lore and Legend explores the most colorful and curious aspects of our nautical heritage. From Noah's Ark to Thor Heyerdahl's raft, from Atlantis to the Northwest Passage, author Peter Jeans scours the ages and the seven seas for fanciful, inspiring, and bizarre tales of sea monsters, ghost ships, lost continents, castaways, pirates, explorers, superstitions, and customs. His introductions point out the significance of each story and examine...
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