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Jules Verne's classic science fiction story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the great tale of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus. In 1866 a strange and unknown sea monster is sighted by ships and an ocean liner is attacked. An expedition prepares in New York, to find and destroy the menacing creature. The 20,000 of the title refers to an overall distance traveled under the sea, rather than an impossible measure of descent.
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Love of Life (1903) Two prospectors have stayed out in the wild Yukon until both are starving and lost. The stronger man abandons the weaker. The weak man keeps moving. Every hour of the day, every step is pain. Hunting minnows and birds to eat is torturous frustration. Finally, pursued by a starving wolf, the man comes in sight of the sea and a ship -- his only chance of rescue. To Build a Fire (1901) A young man and a wiser husky set out across...
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People say that Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white man on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955 because she was "tired." This book explains what that "tiredness" really was: a fierce "tiredness" of segregation! Rosa is called the "mother of Civil Rights" for that action in Montgomery, but her activism began long before. Her grandfather was a black Alabaman who would sit up all night with a shotgun in his lap to ward off the KKK....
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