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42) Badger's journey
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Once a brave sea captain, Badger now lives a routine and lonely life on a small island, until a series of events takes her far from home and into the company of new friends.
44) The sea wolf
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A young art critic is forced to endure the wrath of Wolf Larsen, captain of the sealing schooner which rescues him after a shipwreck.
Author
Series
Signet classic volume CE 2687
Language
English
Description
Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave ship mutiny written at the time of the Amistad case and "The Town-Ho's Story", a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, "Moby Dick".
Series
Tales of elemental spirits volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 CDs (approximately 4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American writers have long sought to compose "the great American novel, " or "America's epic." Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby have been advanced as plausible contenters for the title, but no work can mount a more substantial claim than Herman Melville's Moby Dick, or the whale. Shutt guides listeners on a fascinating investigation of the tale, examining the work as a whole and exporing the life of its creator,...
51) Monsarrat at sea
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1976.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The latest in David Poyer's acclaimed novels about the modern Navy and Marine Corps, Onslaught chronicles Dan Lenson's latest challenge as the U.S. Navy struggles to hold Taiwan, Korea, and Japan against a massive Chinese offensive. The prize: domination of Asia and the Western Pacific. As the United States' computer, satellite, and financial networks are ravaged by coordinated digital attacks, China and its associated powers begin to roll up and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion. Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
World War with China explodes, and Dan Lenson has been promoted to admiral, at least for the duration. China's naval and air forces utilize advanced technology and tactical nuclear weapons to devastate America's traditional sea power, while its massive army swiftly forces humiliating treaties on Japan, the Philippines, and other crucial allies. Lenson is fighting to keep sea lanes open in the Central Pacific, to turn the tide and buy time for the...
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