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Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
106 p. ; map ; 21 cm.
Description
Originally published as a fourteen consecutive day series of installments in El Espectador newspaper in 1955 and then as a book in 1970, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor relates the story of Luis Alejandro Velasco, a shipwrecked sailor who nearly died on account of negligence by the Colombian Navy. Several of his colleagues drowned shortly before arriving at the port of Cartagena de Indias due to the existence of overweight contraband aboard the...
82) Taking the sea: perilous waters, sunken ships, and the true story of the legendary wrecker captains
Author
Publisher
AMACOM
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
In the late 19th century, an intrepid, reckless group of men earned their living by rescuing and raising sunken ships, even in the face of monstrous waves and fierce weather. To some, they were heroes, helping to rescue both passengers and ships with courage and skill. To others they were ruthless pirates, who exploited these ship wrecks for their treasure. The book provides a compelling portrait of the wrecker captains and the dangerous lives they...
Publisher
[Distributed by] Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
National Geographic remembers the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic with a special collection of programs including the original classic "Secrets of the Titanic" and the new special "Save the Titanic with Robert Ballard". Provides location footage of the first discovery of the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic by Dr. Robert Ballard and his team of researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The vacationing Chipmunks and Chipettes are turning a luxury cruise liner into their personal playground, until they become 'chipwrecked' on a remote island. As the 'Munks and Chipettes try various schemes to find their way home, they accidentally discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010, ©1998
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill., maps, photos (black & white) ; 20 cm.
Description
In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Scottish islanders plot to steal cases of whisky from a stranded ship; a rich businessman accidentally entrusts the transporation of his personal furniture to a small, aged puffer boat more suitable for a scrap yard than for the expensive cargo.
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling's home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with...
90) The night ship
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing community...
92) The emerald sea
Author
Series
Glittering Court volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill,, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Tamsin Wright will do anything to reach the Glittering Court's top ranks and, even after a shipwreck exposes her to new cultures and beliefs, holds tight to the secret that would unravel everything if uncovered.
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
599 pages
Description
Un marino sin barco, desterrado del mar, conoce a una extraña mujer que posee, tal vez sin saberlo, respuestas a preguntas que ciertos hombres se hacen desde siglos. Cazadores de naufragios en busca del fantasma de un barco perdido en el Mediterráneo, problemas de latitud y longitud cuyo secreto yace oculto en antiguos derroteros y cartas náuticas, museos navales, bibliotecas...
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In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, the 20-man crew set out in three small boats for South America, almost 3,000 miles away. Three months later, only eight were left alive. This book shares a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of the whaling tradition,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 400 pages, 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"David L. Mearns has discovered some of the worlds most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battleship HMS Hood (sunk in a pyrrhic duel with the Bismarck) to solving the mystery of HMAS Sydney, to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gamas sixteenth century fleet, Mearns has searched for and found dozens of sunken vessels in every ocean of the world. The Shipwreck Hunter chronicles his most intriguing finds. It describes the...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 27
Description
"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Mus�ee de l'Arm�ee is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving...
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholatic
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
148 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Ten-year-old George Calder can't wait to explore every inch of the Titanic, even if his little sister, Phoebe, has to tag along. But when George sneaks away without her and ventures into the first class baggage room, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever"--Provided by publisher.
98) Unsinkable
Author
Series
Titanic volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Although the Titanic ship is meant to be unsinkable, there is plenty of danger waiting on its maiden voyage for four of its passengers--Paddy, a stowaway; Sophie, under police custody; rich yet troubled Juliana; and Alfie, who hides a secret.
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Description
"In March 2019, the Viking Sky cruise ship was struck by a bomb cyclone in the Arctic Sea. Rocked by 50-foot swells and 40-knot gales, the ship lost power and began to drift straight toward the notoriously dangerous Hustadvika coast in Norway. This is thesuspenseful, harrowing, funny, touching story by one passenger who contemplated death aboard that ship. Chaney Kwak is a travel writer used to all sorts of mishaps on the road, but this is a first...
Author
Series
Aquatic adventures in the overworld volume 1
Formats
Description
Stranded after a shipwreck, brothers Mason and Asher accompany their new friend Luna to an underwater haven where they are forced to endure a region of unknown hazards.
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