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The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]

John Reiss was a tall stout mortician with a pink complexion and a friendly manner. His wife had said, 'He's wonderful with bereaved relatives - he just calms them down, ...
( Category: Travel August 21,2014 )
Finding Longitude by National Maritime Museum
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:National Maritime Museum

His certainty came from having used thirty-four sets of lunar observations to establish its position. Fixing geographical locations accurately was a lengthy process, since the best observations could only be ...
( Category: History August 21,2014 )
In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Hampton Sides [Sides, Hampton]

AROUND MIDNIGHT ON June 11, something momentous did happen. While most of the men slept away the bright polar night, the ice opened with a ragged crack, and the Jeannette ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica August 20,2014 )
The Descent of Air India by Bhargava Jitender
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-18 | Author:Bhargava, Jitender [Bhargava, Jitender]

BLIND EYE It did not need an investigator to bring out the aberrations mentioned above; a glance through the airline’s 2006–07 annual report would have sufficed. Interestingly, the airline’s annual ...
( Category: Commercial August 19,2014 )
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-08-17 | Author:Gary Kinder

* * * AT ABOUT SIX hundred feet, the deep ocean squeezes out the last particle of natural light, and below that everything moves in blackness. The SeaMARC flew through ...
( Category: History August 18,2014 )
Understanding Air France 447 by Palmer Bill
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Palmer, Bill [Palmer, Bill]

When the flap handle is out of the UP position (i.e., flaps out), positioning the thrust levers to TOGA commands full power and also commands the go-around mode in the ...
( Category: Commercial August 18,2014 )
Bomber by Deighton Len
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Deighton, Len

Lambert knew the way from Warley to the coastal assembly points as he did the one from his billet to the Mess. Usually he flew straight to the assembly point ...
( Category: Military July 25,2014 )
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival by Laurence Gonzales
epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Laurence Gonzales [Gonzales, Laurence]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN At one or two o’clock on the morning of July 20, when the Grumman Gulfstream touched down at the Sioux City airport and taxied to the ramp, more ...
( Category: State & Local July 17,2014 )
It's All About the Bike by Robert Penn
epub |eng | 2010-07-16 | Author:Robert Penn

Tullio Campagnolo manufactured parts in a workshop behind his father’s hardware store, before registering the company and inaugurating production of the quick release in 1933. In the same year, he ...
( Category: Cycling July 17,2014 )
Frigate Commander by Tom Wareham
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-19 | Author:Tom Wareham [Wareham, Tom]

The move was quite probably equally unwelcome to the seamen also. The Melampus herself was also to be placed under Bridport’s command. For nearly two weeks, the frigates waited for ...
( Category: History July 3,2014 )
Bradshaw's Handbook (Old House) by Bradshaw George
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Bradshaw, George [Bradshaw, George]

BELFAST AND COUNTY DOWN. Belfast to Newtownards & Downpatrick. Down, a maritime county, bounded east and south by the Irish sea, returns two members. Its surface is extremely irregular; in ...
( Category: Travel June 23,2014 )
Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of MAGELLAN by Stefan Zweig
epub, azw3 |eng | 1938-01-31 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

Chapter 8 - Page 173 MUTINY (2 April 1520 - 7 April 1520) Trapped up as they were in Port San Julian, which, though well sheltered, was a gloomy place ...
( Category: Historical June 5,2014 )
The Girl Who Came Home - A Titanic Novel by Gaynor Hazel
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Gaynor, Hazel [Gaynor, Hazel]

Marconigram message sent from Mr Franklin, The White Star Line to Captain Smith, The Titanic, 15th April, 1912 CHAPTER 22 - R.M.S Titanic, 14th April 1912 ‘Peggy, Peggy, pssst, are ...
( Category: Biographical June 1,2014 )
The Great American Steamboat Race by Benton Rain Patterson
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-01 | Author:Benton Rain Patterson [Patterson, Benton Rain]

•9• The Hard-Working Life William Wells Brown was born into slavery in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1814 and when he was in his twenties, he worked aboard the Mississippi River steamboats ...
( Category: Transportation May 29,2014 )
Wreck of the Carl D.: A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea by Michael Schumacher
epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Michael Schumacher [Schumacher, Michael]

Marlys Mays is prepared neither for the news that her husband is one of the two survivors or for the rush of reporters turning up at her front doorstep. Before ...
( Category: Ship History May 27,2014 )

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