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"Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami's hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn't anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. They found themselves battling pounding rain, waves...
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Discover the amazing true story behind the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick and the new feature film Heart of the Sea. A tragic yet riveting narration of life and death and man against the elements, Beneath the Heart of the Sea is an extreme account of shipwreck survival.On the morning of November 20,1820, in the Pacific Ocean 2,000 miles from the coast of South America, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaleship Essex. As the...
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Hyperion
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©2002
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232 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Red Sky in Mourning" is the true story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft's 41-day journey to safety through a killer hurricane at sea, which she survived through fortitude and sheer strength of character. Interspersed with flashbacks to her romance with her doomed fiance Richard who was onboard with her, this survival story offers a triumphant, life-affirming ending.
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In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three...
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Naval Institute Press
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©2004
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x, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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"On 16 September 1945, Elmer Renner and thirty-one shipmates aboard a U.S. Navy minesweeper off the coast of Okinawa endured one of the worst typhoons in recorded history. Named Makurazaki by the Japanese, the storm capsized Renner's ship and sent many of the crew to the bottom of the Pacific. Built for coastal waters, YMS-472 simply could not withstand the huge seas. Renner and eight others, however, managed to ride out the final fury of the typhoon...
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Zenith Press
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2015.
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xxvi, 195 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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"An illustrated edition of the firsthand account of the whaler Essex's attack and sinking by a sperm whale, the inspiration for Moby-Dick. Includes a new introduction and supplementary extracts from a variety of sources"--
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Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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[2014]
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189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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English
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"A WWII hero's courageous, inspiring true story of survival against all odds after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis"--Provided by publisher.
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