It could really go either way. In , nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory.
For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death. In this extraordinary book, Peter Nichols chronicles a contest of the individual against the sea, waged at a time before cell phones, satellite dishes, and electronic positioning systems.
A Voyage for Madmen is a tale of sailors driven by their own dreams and demons, of horrific storms in the Southern Ocean, and of those riveting moments when a split-second decision means the difference between life and death. Sebastian Cabot age fifteen, can only wait and wonder. His famous father has abandoned him at home in Bristol, England, but has taken the boy's older and younger brothers, Ludovico and Sancio, on his second voyage in search of the Asian mainland.
He returned to England a hero. Five years earlier, Spain had given Christopher Columbus a similar welcome. He had found Asia, he claimed. And by a southern route. Cabot was skeptical and set out to the north again to prove his old friend a fraud. But silence followed.
Now, Sebastian and history are confronted with a tantalizing mystery. What has become of Cabot's second endeavor? Letters to the boy from fourteen-year-old Sancio tell of a fearsome storm and its aftermath. They, and the surprising climax to Sebastian's and Sancio's shared story, make for unforgettable voyaging. The ship had only seconds to spare. The right side of the ship struck the side of the ice mountain floating in the north Atlantic.
The fate of the Titanic—and its 1, passengers and crewmembers—had been sealed. Beth and her cousin Patrick travel in Mr. Whittaker's invention, the Imagination station, to A. Greenland, where they meet Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson and witness the spread of Christianity in that country. From one of our most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers comes a sweeping novel set on board the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the south pacific in Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached.
When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world. At the heart of The Difference is a crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea, still mourning a miscarriage, forms a bond with a young boy from a remote island and takes him on board as her own son.
Over time, the repercussions of this act force Kay, who considers the boy her brother, to examine her own assumptions--which are increasingly at odds with those of society around her--about what is forgivable and what is right.
Inspired by a true story, Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder, and in its darkness, prejudice and difficulty, too.
She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay's examination of the idea of 'difference'--between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs and species. The Difference is a breathtaking novel by a writer with an astonishing ability to bring past worlds vividly to life while revealing the moral complexity of our own.
The young lovers see no hope of escape. In Voyage of the Sea Wolf, the continuing saga of Catherine's sea adventures, she and William are rescured from their island prison by the Sea Wolf, a pirate ship pursuing the Reprisal.
Catherine worries that these new pirates will send her back to the island once they discover she's a girl. But then, she meets the captain of the Sea Wolf. A Woman! Surely, Catherine thinks, the bloodshed and brutality she and William experienced aboard the Reprisal can't happen again, especially under the leadership of a female captian.
But just as things seem to be going their way, the captain takes a liking to William. Catherine is forbidden to see him. If Catherine and William want to stay together, they must find a way to now escape from the Sea Wolf.
Redick brings his acclaimed fantasy series The Chathrand Voyage to a triumphant close that merits comparison to the work of such masters as George R. Martin, Philip Pullman, and J. Tolkien himself. The evil sorcerer Arunis is dead, yet the danger has not ended. For as he fell, beheaded by the young warrior-woman Thasha Isiq, Arunis summoned the Swarm of Night, a demonic entity that feasts on death and grows like a plague.
If the Swarm is not destroyed, the world of Alifros will become a vast graveyard. Now Thasha and her comrades—the tarboy Pazel Pathkendle and the mysterious wizard Ramachni—begin a quest that seems all but impossible. But for the mage to live again, Thasha Isiq may have to die.
Redick has developed into one of the most exciting young voices in fantasy today. Animal bones. Old bones. Young bones. Male … Read more. Tory Brennan, the great-niece of Dr. Tempe Brennan, and the Virals return for a third thrilling … Read more. Ever since Tory Brennan and her friends rescued Cooper, a kidnapped wolf pup with a rare … Read more.
When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane … Read more. A newborn baby is found wedged in a vanity cabinet in a rundown apartment near Montreal. Just as , fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in … Read more.
John Lowery was declared dead in —the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body … Read more. There are bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in … Read more. In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes … Read more. As a child, she was told to forget about the missing girl. To some, the dead are a commodity. For Tempe Brennan, they hold the key to cracking … Read more.
The bones of three young women are … Read more. She has a passion for the truth. Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint … Read more. In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is digging for a corpse buried … Read more. In the year … Read more. In No Rest for the Dead , betrayal, vengeance, redemption, greed, and love, are tied together … Read more.
Fatal Voyage Published by Scribner. A Conspiracy of Bones Published by Scribner. Good News for Temperance Brennan Fans! The Bone Collection is coming to you this November. Trace Evidence Published by Penguin Group.
Bones on Ice Published by Random House. Shock Published by Penguin Group. Swipe Published by Penguin Group.
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