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  • The Arctic Schooner Bowdoin

    One Hundred Years of Wind, Sea, and Ice

    de K. A. Beals ...
    The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan. She is the only American schooner built specifically for Arctic exploration, and has sailed above the Arctic Circle 21 times. Though named for Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin is owned by the Maine Maritime Academy, where it is used in the sail training program. The Bowdoin ... Leer más

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  • Thinking through Writing

    Guidelines for Planning Learner-Centered Instruction

    de K. A. Beals ...
    The purpose of Thinking through Writing is to prove thinking skills are taught best through writing. All parts of the brain and all types of learning styles are used in writing activities, simultaneously instructing thinking skills. This book provides an example of a writing course, illustrating how thinking and writing converge, and is addressed to college instructors, although it would be useful ... Leer más

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  • In the Heart of the Sea

    The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (National Book Award Winner)

    **From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.In 1820, the whaleship Essex was ... Leer más

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  • The White Darkness

    de David Grann ...
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs."[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York MagazineHenry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special ... Leer más

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  • The Sea Captain's Wife

    A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World

    "[U]ndeniably one of the greatest stories of a bygone era." - Wall Street JournalThe true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica's deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of *The Widow ClicquotSummer, 1856*Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious. Both from New En... ... Leer más

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  • Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains

    de Dennis Powers ...
    "Kirkus Reviews" summarized: "Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls with iron ones, but as the nation expanded westward in the wake of the Forty-Niners, the burgeoning demand for ... Leer más

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  • Into the Ice

    The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery

    de Mark Synnott ...
    New York Times bestselling author Mark Synnott has climbed with Alex Honnold. He’s scaled Mount Everest. He's pioneered big-wall first ascents, including the north-west face of the mile-high Great Trango Tower, and skied monster first descents. But in 2022, he realized there was a dream he’d yet to achieve: to sail the Northwest Passage in his own boat-- a feat only four hundred or so sailors have ... Leer más

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  • Adrift

    A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It

    A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or deathThe small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from ... Leer más

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  • Leviathan

    The History of Whaling in America

    **A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History"The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick**The epic history of the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • November's Fury

    The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913

    On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicted a “moderately severe” storm. Hourly the warnings became more and more dire. Weather forecasting was in its infancy, however, and radio communication was not much better; by the time it became clear that a freshwater hurricane of epic proportions was ... Leer más

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  • In the Heart of the Sea (Young Readers Edition)

    The True Story of the Whaleship Essex

    The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning In the Heart of the Sea, now a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard, adapted by the author for young readers.On November 20, 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. Within minutes, the twenty-one-man crew, including the fourteen-year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, found themselves stranded in three ... Leer más

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  • Sailing Alone

    A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea

    **2024 National Outdoor Book Award Silver Medal Winner“A masterfully curated collection...You don’t have to be a sailor to be blown away by this fascinating, bighearted book.”—Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, Travels with George, and Second WindA story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, disastrous, and often absurd history ... Leer más

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