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61) The Mariner
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In The Mariner Taleb Alrefai turns a spotlight on Kuwait's pearl-fishing history in an enthralling fictional re-telling of that fateful day, 19 February 1979, when the country's famous dhow shipmaster Captain Al-Najdi is lost at sea in a treacherous storm. In between fishing for seabream with two friends, the retired mariner looks back on how the sea has been calling him since childhood, on the punishing work of pearl-divers, and how he became a captain...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this edited G. A. Henty collection:
"Under Drake's Flag" is the tale of the fight between the great empires of Spain and Britain for the supremacy on the seas and oceans. Tale is told from the perspective of a young boy who, along with a few friends, finds himself in the service of famous Francis Drake.
"Chapter of Adventures: Through the Bombardment of Alexandria" is tale of the young midshipman, Jack Robson, who works...
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«El viejo marinero se arremangó la camisa y empezó. Lo que querían era conocer una historia que, aunque no estaba escrita en las páginas de un libro, lo estaba en la piel de un hombre, y eso para él también era literatura.»
El beso de la aguja, tinta y sangre mezcladas para dar vida a una persona que ya no volvería a ser la misma. La magia del tatuaje, la perpetua marca de aquello que merece ser recordado. Veintitrés veces se sometió...
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Excerpt: ""Mr. Maxwell Kane!" The announcement was made by Nick Carter's valet, Joseph, who threw open the door of his master's study with a gesture as nearly approaching a flourish as any in which he ever permitted himself to indulge. Joseph had a wholesome respect for millionaires, and many a one of them came at one time and another to the detective for consultation; but it was rarely that Joseph admitted such a one as Maxwell Kane. It was a name...
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Alan Lewrie is now commander of HMS Jester, an 18-gun sloop. Lewrie sails into Corsica only to receive astonishing orders: he must lure his archenemy, French commander Guillaume Choundas, into battle and personally strike the malevolent spymaster dead. With Horatio Nelson as his squadron commander on one hand and a luscious courtesan who spies for the French on the other, Lewrie must pull out all the stops if he's going to live up to his own reputation...
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"A Season to Remember" is an exciting tale of great adventure and hardship - written with much imagination and experience. A wonderful trip with the author into a world far from the mundane. From nature in all its glory to nature in all its cruelness - the sea. Even though he believes he is searching for Doug, Timothy realizes he is searching for more than a friend. During that search, he faces a world of loneliness, raunchy, unsavory charactors and...
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A Nicholas Fallon Sea Novel.
The night turned prematurely dark as the storm seemed to suck the light out of the day. Captain Nicholas Fallon and his crew aboard the British Privateer Rascal stood to the monstrous seas hour after hour, their minds numb and their bodies bloodied from the fight.
Suddenly, a light.
Only the remarkable seamanship of Rascal's indomitable first mate Beatrice McFarland can save a simple cod fisherman who brings aboard...
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In this warm, lively account of living on and by the sea, Sarah Drummond writes of life as an apprentice fisherwoman. Through her firsthand experience with small-scale commercial fishing in the Great Southern, Drummond documents a way of life-fishing-that is slowly dying as waters become politicized and fished out. She writes of fishing, of feuds, and of all the fish that got away. Salt Story is a tribute to sea-dogs, fisherwomen, oystermen, and storytellers...
70) Matelot
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Extrait : "Un enfant habillé en ange, - c'est-à-dire demi-nu, avec une fine petite chemise et, aux épaules, les deux ailes d'un pigeon blanc... C'était au beau soleil d'un mois de juin méridional, dans l'extrême Provence confinant à l'Italie. Il marchait, à une procession de Fête-Dieu, en compagnie de trois autres en costume pareil. Les trois autres anges étaient blonds et cheminaient les yeux baissés, comme prenant au sérieux tout cela."...
72) Sea Change
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Chris Bowen is the star quarterback at his high school and is attracting interest from college scouts. He dreams of playing in the NFL but can be indecisive in crucial moments during a game. After taking a vicious hit to his head, he begins to have hallucinations of a 19th-century whaling ship and thinks he's going crazy. Afraid of losing scouting interest and jeopardizing his future, he doesn't tell anyone. His mental state worsens when a ghost,...
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On Christmas Eve, 1972, the commercial fishing vessel, LADY-FAME was struck and capsized by a fifty foot rogue wave while crossing the Humboldt Bay bar. Contemporary artist, Peter Santino was a crew member and wrote fifty thousand words during the months following, describing every thought and action that occurred, with no embellishment or clever trickery in a attempt to create a record of Truth. Now, some forty years later, and after re-reading Moby-Dick,...
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Excerpt: "I told my story, and the three fellows listened attentively. Their eyes glowed in the lamplight as they stared at me. The weak wind raised a pleasant buzzing noise at the cutwater, and the lugger stole in floating launches through the gloom over the long invisible heave of the Atlantic swell. 'Ah!' said the helmsman, when I had made an end, 'we heerd of that there Tintrenale lifeboat job when we was at Penzance. An' so you was her coxswain?'...
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An old man accosts a middle-aged vacationer on a remote South Pacific island and leads him to a luxurious mansion on top of a hill. Once there, he reveals that it was owned by the writer who was the inspiration for Jack London's masterpiece Martin Eden. London's novel ends tragically, but according to the old man, the real Martin Eden lived on and had many further adventures.
76) Squid!
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Driven ashore by hunger, a female giant squid brings terror to a remote Scottish fishing village. Back in the sea she meets Jamie, a young diver enthralled by the water, who sparks a primal reaction. But does she need a meal or a mate? Tensions rise as the community struggles to understand and deal with a mystery, a threat and a cold-hearted attempt to kill or capture the creature. In a battle for survival, justice and the environment, Jamie, aided...
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Mentionné par Claudio Magris dans "Danube", "Europolis", le roman de Jean Bart, pseudonyme d'Eugeniu Botez, constitue une évocation sans équivalent du petit port cosmopolite de Sulina au début du vingtième siècle, à l'époque de la Commission européenne du Danube. Parabole sur la différence autant que récit d'aventure, il couronne l'œuvre d'un personnage de la littérature roumaine, à la fois écrivain et capitaine de navire et demeure...
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The following chapters and sailing stories are an amalgamation of some research, of this author's personal experiences, and embellished by my extrapolated imagination feeding off my life experiences. Where truth ends and imagination takes over is up to the reader to determine. However, this book is mostly fiction. Some of the characters in the stories are real, but under advice I have changed names and made them fit the venue into which they are placed....
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Excerpt: "I had passed from the deck, where I slept, to the cabin in too great a hurry to notice the weather. Now, reaching the poop, I stood a moment or two to look around, being in my way as concerned about the direction of the wind as Vanderdecken himself. It still blew fresh, but the heavens lay open among the clouds that had thickened their bulk into great drooping shining bosoms, as though indeed the crystalline blue under which they sailed...
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Julio Verne fue un genio, posiblemente el más grande novelista de ciencia ficción y aventuras de la literatura universal. No hay niño, adolescente o adulto que no conozca sus historias, ya sea por su lectura, por sus adaptaciones al cine, a los cómics o al teatro.
Referirnos a este autor francés es hablar de imaginación, creatividad, acción trepidante, diversión y entretenimiento, ilusión, ciencia, visión adelantada a su tiempo y trama...
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