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| Author | : Gordon Thomas |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2014-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1497658950 |
The “extraordinary” true story of the St. Louis, a German ship that, in 1939, carried Jews away from Hamburg—and into an unimaginable ordeal (The New York Times). On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War II erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews—some had already been in concentration camps—who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. The voyage of the damned had begun. Before the St. Louis was halfway across the Atlantic, a power struggle ensued between the corrupt Cuban immigration minister who issued the visas and his superior, President Bru. The outcome: The refugees would not be allowed to land in Cuba. In America, the Brown Shirts were holding Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden; anti-Semitic Father Coughlin had an audience of fifteen million. Back in Germany, plans were being laid to implement the final solution. And aboard the St. Louis, 937 refugees awaited the decision that would determine their fate. Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have re-created history in this meticulous reconstruction of the voyage of the St. Louis. Every word of their account is true: the German High Command’s ulterior motive in granting permission for the “mission of mercy;” the confrontations between the refugees and the German crewmen; the suicide attempts among the passengers; and the attitudes of those who might have averted the catastrophe, but didn’t. In reviewing the work, the New York Times was unequivocal: “An extraordinary human document and a suspense story that is hard to put down. But it is more than that. It is a modern allegory, in which the SS St. Louis becomes a symbol of the SS Planet Earth. In this larger sense the book serves a greater purpose than mere drama.”
| Author | : Admiral James Stavridis, USN |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2020-10-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0525559957 |
From one of the most distinguished admirals of our time and a former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, a meditation on leadership and character refracted through the lives of ten of the most illustrious naval commanders in history In Sailing True North, Admiral Stavridis offers lessons of leadership and character from the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. He also brings a lifetime of reflection to bear on the subjects of his study--naval history, the vocation of the admiral, and global geopolitics. Above all, this is a book that will help you navigate your own life's voyage: the voyage of leadership of course, but more important, the voyage of character. Sailing True North helps us find the right course to chart. Simply as epic lives, the tales of these ten admirals offer up a collection of the greatest imaginable sea stories. Moreover, spanning 2,500 years from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, Sailing True North is a book that offers a history of the world through the prism of our greatest naval leaders. None of the admirals in this volume were perfect, and some were deeply flawed. But from Themistocles, Drake, and Nelson to Nimitz, Rickover, and Hopper, important themes emerge, not least that serving your reputation is a poor substitute for serving your character; and that taking time to read and reflect is not a luxury, it's a necessity. By putting us on personal terms with historic leaders in the maritime sphere he knows so well, James Stavridis gives us a compass that can help us navigate the story of our own lives, wherever that voyage takes us.
| Author | : Tony Horwitz |
| Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2008-04-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1429937734 |
The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.
| Author | : Matthew Olshan |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2016-10-11 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0374329540 |
A hilarious fictionalized retelling of the first international balloon flight.
| Author | : Steven Siguaw |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2014-11-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781502735737 |
This is the true story of a voyage, a voyage around the world. However, the tale is much more than you might expect. There are tropical beaches, exotic countries, fascinating people, nights at sea filled with the most brilliant stars one could ever see, and of course sailing stories. Yet there is more because this book is also about what happened to four friends so far away in the Indian Ocean who were sailing on the sailboat Quest and the deadly Somali pirate attack. It seems the press will never let a good story stand in the way of truth as with publicized stories, magazine articles, obscure books and television broadcasts about the Quest incident. The sailboat Quest was part of a group of sailboats on an ill-fated sailing Rally crossing the Indian Ocean in February 2011. That year, 2011, saw the greatest number of Somali pirate attacks in history on ships and shipping in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. Unfortunately, this group of sailboats became part of the statistics. The Quest incident changed history as well as the mentality of sailing around the world on one's own sailboat. Sailing around the world is a challenge that is incomparable to any endeavor one can think of on Earth. Obviously there are shorter, more intense and difficult ways to challenge the very being of a person. Yet, to sail so far away from land, support, help and comfort as well as to sail for such long periods of time, very few events can equal ocean sailing on this planet. Space travel would definitely suit many long distance sailors for these same reasons. The sailboat Quest joined the Rally in Thailand and its' crewmembers were subsequently captured and killed by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. This incredible story is one that needs to be told by a member of that sailing Rally.
| Author | : M. Fuller |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2008-05-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230611893 |
This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by Richard Hakluyt memorializing the feats of Elizabethan voyagers, the eccentric autobiography of Captain John Smith, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland.
| Author | : Katharine Evans |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 1715 |
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| Author | : Rev. William C. Mack |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2016-02-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 148344449X |
The Voyage of the Santa Evangelista is an adventurous, thrilling allegory about the Biblical teachings of vocation and evangelism-how they are a part of, and complement, each Christian. The ship represents the Church, and those on board represent the various vocations within the body of Christ and how their callings were made to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ. In The Voyage of the Santa Evangelista, Rev. Mack has creatively and effectively intertwined the thoughts and lives of fictional characters with the doctrine of vocation and evangelism. Set in the time following the discovery of the New World and the Reformation, the reader sets sail with the captain, crew, and passengers of the Santa Evangelista on a voyage of self-examination. Through the characters he has imagined, Rev. Mack teaches a Biblical understanding of Christian purpose in every action of life that is inextricably linked to the mission of God and His final goal for His elect children to enter into heaven.
| Author | : Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2017-09-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0191019747 |
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trail. It is a powerfully psychological novel, in which the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.
| Author | : Kenneth Muir |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1136564128 |
First published in 1937. This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate entities; that they must be related to one another, to the poems and to the Sonnets; that each individual play acquires a deeper significance from its setting in the corpus. Muir and O'Loughlin's critical analysis takes place against the personality of Shakespeare, asserting that that despite all their diversities a single mind and a single hand dominate them and that they are the outcome of one man's critical and emotional reactions to life.
