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The story is one of the grandest stories ever told of that last thrilling period of naval sailing ships, the Napoleonic era, when the wooden walls of England's navy were the envy of the world and American sailors were the only ones who cared to meet English sailors ship for ship.
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(Cecil Scott),Hornblower volume 4
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Horatio Hornblower returns to sea with the rank of Commodore in command of a small squadron during the Napoleonic wars. The fate of Europe hangs on the outcome of his mission.
10) Lord Hornblower
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Once again the indomitable Hornblower risks his career in the fight against Napoleon. Allied with him is his old love Marie. She is by no means the least of the obstacles in the way of his return to the arms of Lady Barbara.
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a"This book is drawn from the fifteen loose-leaf diaries, over 2800 pages, left at the White House by James Forrestal shortly before his suicide. Kept for his private information and not intended for publication, the diaries cover his personal involvement, as Secretary of the Navy and first Secretary of Defense, in the national and world issues of the critical years since the war."--Dustjacket.
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Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times best-seller list, where it enjoyed wide attention for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It remained on the list for more than a year and a half and ultimately sold well over a million copies,...
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Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Tells the story of ancient accomplishments on the sea from the earliest times to the end of the Roman Empire, explaining how seafaring people perfected trading vessels from mere rowboats into huge freighters that could carry over a thousand tons, how they transformed warships from simple oared transports into complex rowing machines holding hundreds of marines and even heavy artillery, and how their maritime commerce progressed from short cautious...
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"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But...
18) Moby-Dick
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"American writer Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851 but it took decades before finally it was regarded as a great American novel, and worthy of its place amongst the greatest texts of humankind. It recounts the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of a whaling ship seeking vengeance on Moby Dick, the white whale that had bitten off Ahab's leg on a previous voyage. FLAME TREE's Great Works That Shape Our World is a new series of definitive books...
20) Spring tides
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"Whether on deck or below, Admiral Morison is an enthusiastic victim of sea fever. In this book chapters with a "down East" background are followed by a description of attitudes of the ancients towrd the sea, as portrayed in their literature, and by his own narrrative of sailing among the Isles of Greece." --Taken from book flap.
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