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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Adrift in heavy seas after a hurricane, Joe finds his boat pulled by strong currents and winds. He follows a flock of birds and discovers other sea creatures moving in the same direction toward some rocks. Can Joe's science skills help him to survive?"--
Author
Series
Narrativa) volume 168/3
Language
Español
Description
Enero de 1945. Cuatro jóvenes. Una historia llena de humanidad y esperanza sobre la mayor tragedia marítima de la historia. «Una prima de mi padre estuvo a punto de embarcar en el Wilhelm Gustloff y me pidió que diera voz a aquellos que murieron creyendo que sus historias se habían hundido con ellos.» Este es el origen de la novela, en palabras de la autora. El Wilhelm Gustloff ha quedado asociado para siempre con la mayor tragedia marítima...
65) Lifeboat
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
When an their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
66) Survival at sea
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elite soldiers must know how to survive in every environment, including if theyre stranded on the harshest ocean. Special Forces units trained to survive at sea are some of the most knowledgeable people in the world when it comes to a survival situation in the ocean. In this book, you will learn some of the techniques these soldiers use to stay alive at sea. You can learn from their training and discover: what to do when a shark attacks. how to tell...
69) The ice maiden
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"1842. Stranded on Deception Island in the South Atlantic, her whaling captain husband lost at sea, Karina is destitute and desperate. Disguised as a cabin boy, she stows away on a British ship. But Karina is about to get a nasty surprise. As she grows closer to ship's surgeon Joseph Hooker, Karina and the rest of the crew find themselves pushed to the limits both physically and emotionally as conditions worsen onboard. Engulfed in the chillingly...
71) Stranded at sea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Three teens run out of gas while island-hopping in the South Pacific. A lone sailor drifts on an inflatable life raft in the vast Atlantic. Four men cling to their capsized sailboat far off the New Zealand coast. These remarkable true tales could have ended in tragedy-but they didn't! What happened when these people found themselves stranded at sea for weeks on end? And how did they survive to tell their tales?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Survival! volume 1
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Language
English
Description
During the final hours aboard the Titanic on her ill-fated voyage in 1912, Gavin and Karolina attempt to help others and by so doing learn something about themselves.
76) Adrift
Author
Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
First Amer. edition.
Language
English
Description
While playing pirates with his little sister and her cat in an old crate he finds on the beach, a young boy suddenly discovers that they are adrift on the sea and that he must somehow keep them all alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Describes the 1856 maritime tragedy of a ship traveling to New York that hit an iceberg and left its passengers adrift four hundred miles off the coast of Newfoundland.
"The 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...
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