98 results for 'Henry Crew'

This riveting account of two separate shipwrecks - one English, one French - is a testament to the indomitable human spirit in the face of extreme adversity. Alexandre Corréard, Jean Baptiste Henri...

Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage, 1684-1687 is a historical account of the final expedition of the French explorer Ren�����-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. The book, edited and...

""The Past And The Present Of Steam Navigation On Long Island Sound"" is a historical book written by Henry Whittemore and published in 1893. The book provides an in-depth account of the evolution of...

The Ocean Monarch: A Poetic Narrative is a book written by James Henry Legg and first published in 1848. The book is a long poem that tells the story of a ship called the Ocean Monarch and its...

In 'The Loss of the Royal George', William Henry Giles Kingston recounts one of the most tragic sea disasters in British history. Through the eyes of a young boy who witnesses the sinking firsthand,...

""Life In A Man Of War: Scenes In Old Ironsides During Her Cruise In The Pacific"" is a book written by Henry James Mercier in 1841. The book is a detailed account of life on board the USS...

""A Historical Account Of All The Voyages Round The World V4: Performed By English Navigators, Including Those Lately Undertaken By Order Of His Present Majesty"" is a book written by David Henry and...

Lady Charlotte Talbot hasn't seen Armand Rajaram de Bourbon, her oldest childhood friend and once betrothed, since his family returned to India when she was fifteen. Since then, she has left a groom...

The Cruise of the Brooklyn: A Journal of the Principal Events of a Three Years' Cruise in the U.S. Flagship Brooklyn (1884) is a historical account of a naval voyage written by William Henry Beehler...

The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System is an ambitious Vernian cosmic saga written between 1888 and 1896 by Georges Le Faure and Henri de Graffigny. Where Verne...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve...

Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges is your typical seventeenth-century Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and...

Set in Cleveland, Ohio, from its earliest beginnings as a forested frontier to the urban blight of modern times, Mistakes by the Lake is a collection of ten thematically linked stories spanning the...

Vampires stalk us from the shadows. They've been feeding on blood, our very life force, since before words were pressed into clay. But we are not unprotected. For as long as vampires have hunted us,...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve...

The Shepherd of the Sea is a novel written by Henry Leverage and published in 1920. The story is set in the early 19th century and follows the adventures of Captain Harry Hartley, a British naval...

Unabridged. 97 original photographs and maps. An epic account of one of the most extraordinary feats of physical and mental endurance in a battle for survival in the most extreme natural...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve...

In the South China Sea during the Korean War, an unaccompanied United States Navy destroyer brazenly approached the Communist China seaport of Swatow. The Red Chinese immediately sent 40-50 armed...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve...

.spellbinding history., the how, what, when, where and why.some never told and certainly not always understood. This is a story that has begged to be told, .with sources and substance heretofore...

Rosier's Relation of Waymouth's Voyage to the Coast of Maine, 1605 (1887) is a historical account of the exploration of the Maine coast by English explorer George Waymouth in 1605. The book is...

As Captain Wendy Maynard... I have everything I ever dared dream of. A ship all my own. Friends by my side. A purpose-and a home.I should have known it would all go to shit.The exhausting combination...

The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System is an ambitious Vernian cosmic saga written between 1888 and 1896 by Georges Le Faure and Henri de Graffigny. Where Verne...

Profit in silk and spices lured them into Arctic straits, but the chilling reality of the Little Ice Age blocked their passage. And so Henry Hudson and his mutinous crew turned westward armed with...

A profound exploration of emergency medicine practiced at the most remote and challenging frontiers of East Africa. This inspiring memoir finds hope and meaning in the face of extraordinary odds as...

Marine International Law is a book written by Henry Glass and first published in 1885. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and practices of international law as they relate...

Queen Anne's Curse is a work of fiction but is based on a number of true life events. The characters of Sir Michael Walker, Geoffrey Hawthorne, Caroline De Winter, Debbie and David Spencer, and Dr...

FEAR HAS ARRIVED. . .CAPTAIN FEAR THAT IS! Get ready for a new suspenseful adventure with Pollywog and her friends. As Polly Peterson (nickname: Pollywog) settled into her vacation stay with her...

The leader of the freedom fighters, Luke Palmer, must leave to try and find his sister, Emma, who has been taken by slavers and sold to the Corporation.Rachel Navara is a soldier. She and her...

Once seen on the river Tyne in their hundreds, for over five centuries coal keels were a vital transport link in Britain's largest commodity trade, the 'Coal Trade'. The keel's full story is told...

This volume has richly enhanced General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's reputation as the father of today's United States Air Force. Major General John W. Huston, himself an Army Air Forces combat veteran of...

When George Neville vanishes while searching for King Solomon's diamond mines in Africa, his brother, Sir Henry Curtis, knows that he cannot find his brother without help. Said to be located in an...