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Author | : Marianna Torgovnick |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780226808307 |
The acclaimed author of Gone Primitive interweaves autobiographical moments with engrossing interpretations of American cultural icons, from Dr. Doolittle to Lionel Trilling, from The Godfather to Camille Paglia, to create this unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries--of what it means to be an Italian American.
Author | : Sheng-yen Lu |
Publisher | : Us Daden Culture |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9780984156108 |
Author | : Jane Russell |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1408194457 |
The Atlantic Crossing Guide is a complete reference for anyone planning an Atlantic passage in their own boat. It is described by Yachting World magazine as 'An invaluable mixture of planning manual and pilot book, and an essential investment if you're planning to cross the Pond.' From ideal timing, suitable boats, routes, methods of communication and provisioning to sources of regional weather information, hurricane tracks, currents and tides, departure and arrival ports, facilities on arrival and documentation required, the comprehensiveness of this new edition will both inspire dreamers and instill confidence in those about to depart. This is the definitive reference on the subject, relied upon by many thousands of cruisers crossing the Atlantic in both directions and packed with all the information they need. 'I cannot imagine setting sail without it' - SAIL magazine (US)
Author | : Susan Meissner |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 045147600X |
Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in this emotional novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Résistance spy. Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary to cross the Atlantic and be reunited with their American husbands. Their new lives in the United States brightly beckon until their tightly-held secrets are laid bare in their shared stateroom. When the voyage ends at New York Harbor, only one of them will disembark... Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake visits the famously haunted Queen Mary at the request of an old friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and triumphs of the courageous war brides—and will ultimately lead her to reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her own deepest longings. CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED
Author | : Julia Immonen |
Publisher | : HarperChristian + ORM |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-09-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0718021533 |
An activists and athlete recounts her inspiring, record-breaking row across the Atlantic to raise awareness in the fight against modern slavery. The Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge is known as The World’s Toughest Row. Very few have completed the three-thousand-mile race from the Canary Islands to Barbados—fewer than those who have climbed Mount Everest or gone into space. But thirty-two-year-old Julia Immonen and four or the women were determined to not only complete the challenge, but to become the fastest all-female team to ever do so. Row for Freedom chronicles that dramatic journey, detailing the grueling, peril-filled crossing that broke two world records. It weaves together Julia’s search for hope and purpose against a background of relationships scarred by violence. As Julia’s physical and emotional treks unfold, you also learn about the plight of the thirty million victims of the modern-day slave trade that serves as the motivation for her row.
Author | : Ian Urbina |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2019-08-20 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0451492951 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
Author | : John Steele Gordon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2002-06-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0802713645 |
Describes the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866, exploring the physical, financial, and technological challenges of the project and assessing the impact of the cable on the course of twentieth-century history.
Author | : Frank Dye |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2008-04-16 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0713675683 |
This classic sea story recounts Frank Dye's intrepid voyages in his open 16ft Wayfarer Dinghy to Iceland and Norway, which must rank among the most hazardous sea adventures of our time. Encountering the gamut of weather, such is Frank Dye's seamanship that he and his crew survived gales of up to force 9, capsizing, and a broken mast, finally arriving to a safe Scandinavian welcome. It is a hair-raising unforgettable narrative in which we glimpse Frank's gifted boat-handling skills and his instinct for survival.
Author | : Roz Savage |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416583602 |
STUCK IN A corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman of adventure. She invested her life's savings in an ocean rowboat and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing Race. Her 3,000-mile trial by sea became the challenge of a lifetime. Of the twenty-six crews that set out from La Gomera, six capsized or sank and didn't make it to the finish line in Antigua. There were times when she thought she had hit her absolute limit, but alone in the middle of the ocean, she had no choice but to find the strength to carry on. In Rowing the Atlantic we are brought on board when Savage's dreams of feasts are nourished by yet another freeze-dried meal. When her gloves wear through to her blistered hands. When her headlamp is the only light on a pitch-black night ocean that extends indefinitely in all directions. When, one by one, all four of her oars break. When her satellite communication fails. Stroke by stroke, Savage discovers there is so much more to life than a fancy sports car and a power-suit job. Flashing back to key moments from her life before rowing, she describes the bolt from the blue that first inspired her to row across oceans and how this crazy idea evolved from a dream into a tendinitis-inducing reality. And finally, Savage discovers in the rough waters of the Atlantic the kind of happiness we all hope to find.
Author | : Reese Palley |
Publisher | : Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781574091830 |
Author Reese Palley completed a 15-year circumnavigation in his 46-foot sailboat Unlikely. When not at sea, he lives in Philadelphia and key West.