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Author | : Erik Orton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781629725512 |
Working the night shift as a temp in a high-rise cubicle, Erik Orton knew something had to change. He felt the responsibility of providing for his wife and their five children--the youngest with Down syndrome--but craved a life that offered more than just surviving. Watching the sailboats on the Hudson River during his sunset dinner breaks, Erik dared to dream. What would it be like to leave the hustle of the city and instead spend a year on a sailboat, somewhere beautiful, as a family? Despite having no sailing experience, his wife Emily's phobia of deep water, and already stretching every dollar to pay rent and buy groceries, the family of seven turned their excuses into reasons and their fears into motivation. Sure, they would miss their friends, they could go broke, they could get injured or die. Worst of all, they could humiliate themselves by trying something audacious and failing. But the little time they still had together as a family, before their oldest daughter left for college, was drifting away. The Ortons cast off the life they knew to begin an uncertain journey of 5,000 miles between New York City and the Caribbean, ultimately arriving at a new place within themselves. A portrait of a captivating and resilient family and a celebration of the courage it takes to head for something over the horizon, this is a deeply compelling story--told alternately by Erik and Emily--for all those who dream of leaving routine in their wake.
Author | : Stan Hugill |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2022-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493068288 |
This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
Author | : Peter Freuchen |
Publisher | : Lyons Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Ocean |
ISBN | : 9781592281251 |
Discover the great mysteries of the sea with one of the most famous explorers of our time.
Author | : Terri Farley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439120757 |
Beckon the sea, I'll come to thee.... Shed seven tears, perchance seven years.... At the age of ten, Gwen Cooke had a strange encounter with a boy with dark, slightly tilted eyes. He came to her on the beach, whispered strange words in her ear, and then disappeared. Shortly thereafter, her family moved away from their seaside home and Gwen never saw the boy again. Now seventeen, Gwen is returning to her childhood home. Her nana asked her to come. But Gwen knows it's time to go back for another reason: She yearns for the sea. Perhaps the sea itself is calling to her. Perhaps the memory of the boy and his haunting words are drawing her back to the place they met. Perhaps it's time for her to face her destiny.
Author | : George F Bass |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0500051364 |
Firsthand accounts from around the world of more than forty of the most important shipwreck and sunken-city projects ever undertaken. From the Pacific to the Mediterranean, from the Caribbean to the Red Sea, from northern Europe and the northern United States to the Indian Ocean, archaeologists vividly describe shipwrecks from centuries past, from the oldest and deepest ever excavated to the remains of battles in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II. Readers will dive nearly 200 feet with Cemal Pulak on a royal ship that sank over 3,300 years ago off the Aegean coast of Turkey, and explore with Donny Hamilton the streets and houses of the richest English colony in the New World, the infamous pirate stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, swallowed by the sea in 1692. They will accompany famed undersea explorer Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, as he and Cheryl Ward search for shipwrecks in the deep, oxygen-free waters of the Black Sea. They will wade with archaeologist Fred Hocker through mud along the bank of a South Carolina river, and then sail through a gale with Susan Womer Katzev on a full-scale replica of the best-preserved ancient Greek ship yet raised from the depths of the Mediterranean. The book describes the tragic loss, within sight of their loved ones, of seamen returning home to Portugal in 1606, at the end of a two-year voyage to the East on the Nossa Senhora dos Martires, and then describes the fate of the crew of another Portuguese ship, the Santo Antonio de Tanna, which sank off Mombasa, Kenya, while trying to lift the siege of Fort Jesus by Omani Arabs in 1697. It describes the foods, games, weapons, tools, and grooming implements on a ship sailed by Bulgarian merchants around AD 1025, carrying as cargo the largest known collections of medieval Islamic glass and glazed pottery. 350 color illustrations.
Author | : Noel D'Cruz |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1490777202 |
This is a story about a young boy Toby who goes on a wonderful adventure while trying to regain his parents love and attention. His busy parents do not have the time to understand him and are always scolding him for his bad behavior. He meets a magical man Az who promises him his parents love and attention can be regained by a magical fruit. Watch how he takes the boy on a exciting adventure over the seven seas to the magical fruit that eventually brings his parents closer to him.
Author | : Nathan Evans |
Publisher | : Welbeck Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-10-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781787399587 |
Author | : Dennis M. Powers |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2010-03-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1589794486 |
Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.S. West Coast. This book tells of sailing over the oceans when danger and adventure coexisted every day, tough times, and courageous men in distant places, from the Hawaiian Islands to the Bering Sea. Smell the salt in the air and hear the ocean's rush as the ship sails with hardened men, leaking seams, and shrieking winds.
Author | : Kathleen Roy |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1496982304 |
This is an unusual book for young children who have much to learn about conservation and protection of nearly extinct sea creatures. The sea needed a queen at this time of global warming someone to take care of sea pollution.
Author | : David Fisichella |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2010-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1458761924 |
In 1995, a mechanical engineer whose career and heart are adrift meets a blind oceanographer who spends much of her life at sea. Sailing the Arabian Sea as Amy's eyes, David Fisichella watches her adapt to progressive vision loss while he finds his own bearings, confronts the mysteries of ocean currents, survives an armed pirate attack, and learns what it means to be working for, and dating, the chief scientist. Fisichella describes the Woods Hole crew's research in clear, straightforward language, and enlivens his account of their shipboard lives with gritty details, humor, and a refreshing sense of wonder about our oceans. When Fisichella meets Amy, an oceanographer with rapidly deteriorating vision, he is trapped in a crumbling marriage, stuck in an unhappy career with a defense contractor, and looking for a way out of both. He finds it when Amy invites him to take a research cruise with her at sea. Wondrous observations about the world's oceans, encounters with Somali pirates, and most of all, the story of one woman's devotion to her scientific career despite enormous obstacles are woven together with skill and empathy. A memoir that will entrance anyone looking for a second chance at life and love.