The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life, as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (18
More than just sticker books, DK's Sticker Encyclopedias feature a wealth of facts and jaw-dropping statistics, and Ocean includes stickers and fascinating information about everything under the sea, from dolphins and whales to shells and sea anemone.
A decades old murder of a beautiful socialite - perhaps finally solved. A sharper State Senator who builds a City By The Sea. A stressed out policeman who assassinates the mayor one morning... without
From a roadside shack in Guatemala to a dental chair in Mexico, from a mountainside in Peru to a pile of rocks on a French hillside.A man selling peanuts, a lone sailor navigating the Caribbean Sea, a
Dive deep into the world of sea creatures with this fun and practical drawing book for beginners. From 3D shading to color mixing, these simple techniques are the building blocks for perfect pictures. Whether you are shocked by sharks or wowed by whales, pick up a pencil and seek inspiration in this beautifully illustrated book that teaches you how to draw sea creatures from scratch.
Midnight backwater rendezvous, desperate sea chases, smuggler's coves and cathouses,press gangs and waterfront riots: it's 1770 and rebellion smolders. Once a gentleman's sport, smuggling has become a
Adventures beyond imagination are waiting right outside your door…When a lonely boy living on a small tourist island off the coast of California befriends a sea lion, he embarks on a journey that will
Just imagine relaxing in a Cottage by the Sea, taking a walk down Cobblestone Lane, or tending garden at Gingerbread Cottage. It's easy with this delightful calendar.Each monthly spread features a
Guadalcanal...The Solomons...The Coral Sea...The legendary Pacific battlegrounds of a bygone era are about to erupt again -- as the U.S.Navy embarks upon a war of nerves and strategy against a compoun
A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire Historian Timothy Bolt
There's a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it. Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully
Questioning her life and career, an overworked paramedic boards a ferry headed to a barrier island. The sea air and soaring birds captivate her attention until a blue-eyed man appears. They embark on
A jolly picture book following a crew of not-so-scary pirates across the high seas. Children will love following the story as the swashbuckling pirates sail through a swirling storm, sing sea shanties
At a time when what a gay male relationship is and can be is radically changing, Bringing Perfect Back offers a refreshing and personable look at everything facing the modern gay man, whether he's sea
5 years+A humourous historical sticker book, full of busy Viking scenes to complete with over 500 stickers.Scenes include ‘Sea people’, ‘New lands’, ‘A feast’, ‘Gods and godesses’ and much more.Writte
This classic novel by Edgar Allan Poe takes us on a sea adventure with a young man, Arthur Gordon Pym. After he sneaks onto a whaling ship, it later becomes shipwrecked from a severe storm and this fo
A woman awakens in a strange room with the sea roaring below. She is permitted to leave the house and enters a strange city filled with even stranger characters. But she has no memory. Where is she, a
Poetry. Winner of the second 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, Erica Bernheim's THE MIMIC SEA is a whirling dervish of a book, its poems set spinning by the speaker's search for the perfect velocity, for a
How can a teenage girl who’s afraid of the water become queen of a kingdom above and beneath the sea? Raised on savage Shark Island, Cryssa Seachild escapes to her true home, a tropical Camelot prote
A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. Paddle's journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean provides an excelle
A paperback edition of a quintessential Joy Cowley story: Cam follows the river’s journey from the mountains to the sea“This book celebrates children’s freedom to explore and discover the outdoors, an
Max and May see a very big fish in the sea. What big white teeth! Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction,
He has sworn to protect her...Captain Reid MacKenzie, Earl of Seaforth, is a man of his word. During a harrowing battle at sea, the heroic Highlander makes a vow to a dying friend to watch over the ma
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, published in 1840, having been written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834. A film adaptation under the same nam
The magical story of a floating circus and two young women in search of a home. The sea has flooded the earth. North lives on a circus boat, floating between the scattered islands that remain. She dan
Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people’s lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great wat
Through the Eyes of A Teen: Nontraditional Photos of California Landmarks is a photo essay of two well known California landmarks, Joshua Tree National Park and Salton Sea, and two landmarks that are
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic, survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerfu
Renato Beluche played many roles in the turbulent world of the nineteenth-century Caribbean. He was a merchant sea captain as well as a successful Privateer. He was Simon Bolivar's favorite admiral as
IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to
In the novel The Cay, a young white boy and an old black man are stranded on a small sandy cay in the Caribbean Sea following a shipwreck. Eleven-year-old Phillip was blinded by flying debris when a t
The aim of this book is to help you grow as a safe and reliable skipper of a sea-going cruising yacht. There is very little in life more satisfying than skippering a yacht across a bit of water to a n
From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the p
