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1) Lord Jim
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The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat,...
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"In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially...
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"In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the American container ship El Faro, the crew of 33 who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of globalization that put the ship in harm's way"--
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"There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business--one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea back home to New York could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge...
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Soldier dogs volume 7
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Several months after Pearl Harbor, cabin boy Julio and his loyal Boxer Jack fight to survive after their merchant marine ship is torpedoed by German U-boats. Includes historical facts and a timeline of World War II.
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"Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self : A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here at last is Dillon/Jivaka's extraordinary life story told...
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"Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary...
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The United States Merchant Marine has a tradition of being in the forefront of every American military action and has served with distinction in every conflict. New York Times bestselling author Brian Herbert chronicles the amazing exploits of these gallant seamen, assembling a fascinating array of data from historical documents, government records, diaries, and interviews with surviving veterans.
This brilliant history details the heroism, self-sacrifice...
12) Lord Jim
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A disgraced 19th-century British sailor lives nobly among natives. From the Joseph Conrad novel.
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Aristotle Onassis was a born orator, and Jackie Kennedy would sit and listen to him spin off tales and stories-often racy-by the hour. A speaker of seven languages, he could keep a dinner party of some of the world's most sophisticated conversationalists spellbound. Even Jackie couldn't help but drop her reserve and laugh with him. America's First Lady simply never knew anyone quite as free or exotic as Aristotle Onassis, a paradoxical blend of raconteur...
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Rediker turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of maritime adventure not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commoners: sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. He reveals how the "motley" (i.e. multiethnic) crews were a driving force behind the American Revolution; that pirates, enslaved...
16) Adventure
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Harry Patterson, a merchant marine with a swagger in his walk, a girl in every port and a hidden philosophical bent. While on shore leave, he goes with his buddy Mudgin to a most unlikely place ... the library! There, he meets reference expert Emily Sears. She is the picture of ladylike decorum, and she hates Harry on sight. She continues to hate him, almost until the moment she marries him! Then, Harry tells her he's shipping out again, and Emily...
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Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon it. Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free. With typically understated lyricism,...
18) Killing ground
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Tasked to protect the vital, threatened Merchant Navy convoys in the Western Approaches, Howard finds himself in the middle of the Battle of the Atlantic-a full-scale war that was a relentless, savage battle against an ever-present enemy and a violent sea in an arena known to embittered survivors simply as the killing ground. This fictionalized account of the Battle of the Atlantic, which spanned nearly six years and was the longest military campaign...
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"Goulty tells the story from the perspective of the ordinary sailor or officer who was there."-The Northern Mariner
Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War – histories and memoirs in particular – few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty's vivid survey is of such value. Sailors in the Royal Navy and the Merchant...
20) Lord Jim
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"'Lord Jim' opowiada historię zmagań tytułowego Jima z winą, honorem i konsekwencjami błędu popełnionego w młodości. Pochodzący z dobrej angielskiej rodziny syn pastora podczas wypadku w porcie zostaje zdjęty strachem i nie podejmuje działania. Z tego powodu zaczyna go trapić głębokie poczucie winy i swoje zaniechanie postrzega jako ujmę na honorze. Obdarzony moralną wrażliwością przez resztę życia będzie podejmował próby...