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The Sea Captain's Wife : A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World. by Mazzeo, Tilar J.;
It's 1856 and a young woman joins her captain husband on a sea voyage going from New York to San Francisco. When the husband takes ill, Mary Ann Patten takes the helm as the first female to command a merchant vessel. Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush and taking us to the brink of Antarctica, 'The Sea Captain's Wife' finally gives Patten her due. Tilar Mazzeo lives in Vancouver, BC. A RADD Pick.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries; HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy; HISTORY / Women;
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Save Our Souls The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder [electronic resource] : by Pearl, Matthew.aut; cloudLibrary;
From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal. On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers—the ship’s captain Frederick, his wife Elizabeth, their three teenage sons, and their dog—along with the ship’s crew. The family had spotted a promising fishing location when a terrible storm arose, splitting their vessel in two and leaving those onboard adrift on the perilous sea. When the castaways awoke the next morning, they discovered they had been washed ashore—on an island inhabited by a large but ragged and emaciated man who introduced himself as Hans. Hans appeared to have been there for a while and could quickly educate the Walkers and their crew on the island’s resources. But Hans had a secret . . . and as the Walker family gradually came to learn more, what seemed like a stroke of luck to have the mysterious man’s assistance became something ominous, something darker. Like David Grann and Stacy Schiff, Matthew Pearl unveils one of the most incredible yet little-known historical true stories, and the only known instance in history of an actual family of castaways. Save Our Souls asks us to consider who we might become if we found ourselves trapped on a deserted island.
Subjects: Electronic books.; 19th Century; Maritime History & Piracy;
© 2025., HarperCollins,
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The Zorg : A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery. by Kara, Siddharth.;
'The Zorg' uncovers the story of the notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the U.S. abolitionist movement. From the author of 'Cobalt Red'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1; HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery;
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The naval service of Canada, 1910-2010 : the centennial story / by Gimblett, Richard Howard,1956-; Canada.Dept. of National Defence.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Canada. Canadian Armed Forces. Maritime Command; Canada. Royal Canadian Navy;
© 2009., Dundurn Press,
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Titan Unfinished : An Untold Story of Exploration, Innovation, and the OceanGate Tragedy. by Söhnlein, Guillermo A. M.;
'Titan Unfinished' is a firsthand, never-before-told account of the creation of OceanGate, the heartbreaking Titan tragedy and the supposed villain behind it all, Stockton Rush, as told by the only person who can: his cofounder and friend.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Aviation & Nautical; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics; HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries; HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy; TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / Submarines;
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The Gales of November : The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald. by Bacon, John U.;
For three decades following WWII, the Great Lakes were the epicentre of global economic strength. And the Edmund Fitzgerald was the biggest, best, and most profitable ship on the Lakes. But on November 10, 1975, the "storm of the century" sunk the ship, along with the 29 men on board. Publishing on the 50th anniversary of the ship's sinking, 'The Gales of November' is the definite account of the disaster, drawing on more than 100 interviews with the families, friends, and former crewmates of those lost.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI);
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Ship : the epic story of maritime adventure / by Lavery, Brian.; Smithsonian Institution.; National Maritime Museum (Great Britain);
Subjects: Shipping; Ships; Navigation; Naval history;
© 2004., DK Pub.,
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Passenger and merchant ships of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways / by Guay, David R. P.,1954-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.A look at the maritime shipping ventures operated by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Canadian Northern Railway in the early twentieth century, including the various vessels they used to serve the railways.LSC
Subjects: Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company.; Canadian Northern Railway Company.; Ship-railroads; Ships; Railroads;
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Dunkirk [videorecording] / by Beale, Simon Russell,actor.; Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-actor.; Dalton, Timothy,1944-narrator.; Holmes, Alex,film director,film producer.; Warr, Robert,film producer.; British Broadcasting Corporation,publisher.; BBC Worldwide Ltd,publisher.;
Narrated by Timothy Dalton.Narrator, Timothy Dalton ; Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Russell Beale.Explores the audacious bid to rescue over 400,000 troops from the British Expeditionary Force besieged on the beaches at Dunkirk, which ranks as one of the greatest maritime evacuations in history. Combines contemporary footage and reenactments to tell the story in 3 episodes.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Historical reenactments (Television programs); Dunkirk, Battle of, Dunkerque, France, 1940; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
For private home use only.
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Freedom ship : the uncharted history of escaping slavery by sea / by Rediker, Marcus,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad's long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South, finding safe harbor along a network of passageways across North America now known as the Underground Railroad. Yet imagery of fugitives ushered clandestinely from safe house to safe house fails to capture the full breadth of these harrowing journeys: many escapes took place not by land but by sea. Deeply researched and grippingly told, Freedom Ship offers a groundbreaking new look into the secret world of stowaways and the vessels that carried them to freedom across the North and into Canada. Sprawling through the intricate riverways of the Carolinas to the banks of the Chesapeake Bay to Boston's harbors, these tales illuminate the little-known stories of freedom seekers who turned their sights to the sea-among them the legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, one of the Underground Railroad's most famous architects. Marcus Rediker, one of the leading scholars of maritime history, puts his command of archival research on full display in this luminous portrait of the Atlantic waterfront as a place of conspiracy, mutiny, and liberation. Freedom Ship is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the complete story of one of North America's most significant historical moments"--
Subjects: Antislavery movements; Fugitive slaves; Stowaways; Underground Railroad;
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