Castaways - Adrift and Abandoned

Castaways - Adrift and Abandoned
Title Castaways - Adrift and Abandoned PDF eBook
Author Graham Faiella
Publisher The History Press
Pages 209
Release 2021-04-01
Genre History
ISBN 0750995394

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Seafaring before the twentieth century bristled with peril. The safe haven of your vessel might be destroyed by tempest or misadventure, your security scuttled. When you were cast away with only the resources of pluck, stamina, hope – and luck. Where you might end up on the expanse of endless sea facing the prospect of imminent dehydrated, starving death. Or on a safe but potentially forbidding – yet occasionally lush – outcrop of an isolated shore, amongst which perils abounded accounts of courage and companionship. These are narratives of castaways abandoned to fend for themselves, and the ordeals they endured and survived and in remembrance of the seafarers who did not.

Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls

Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls
Title Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls PDF eBook
Author Edward E. Leslie
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 614
Release 1988
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780395911501

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Explores the lives of survivors who were shipwrecked, banished, or abandoned during the past several centuries.

438 Days

438 Days
Title 438 Days PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Franklin
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 288
Release 2015-11-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1501116290

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The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.

The Castaways

The Castaways
Title The Castaways PDF eBook
Author Iain Lawrence
Publisher Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages 258
Release 2007-11-13
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 0375890645

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ADRIFT AT SEA, Tom Tin and his four convict companions are only too glad when they come upon a deserted ship. The boys clamber aboard, not knowing whether they've been saved or set on a course toward doom. But after rescuing two men stranded on a melting iceberg, Tom begins to suspect that these unsavory sailors are dangerous castaways from this very vessel. The more Tom questions the men, the more they dislike him. So, when Tom overhears them plotting to get rid of him, he knows they mean it. But the other boys don't feel threatened - at least not until the sailors attempt to sell them as slaves, a decision that ends with death for some . . . and with Tom sailing the ship home to England. Soon Tom discovers that he has to cast away every ill-intentioned companion from his voyage home before he can truly be free.

The Wilderness Castaways

The Wilderness Castaways
Title The Wilderness Castaways PDF eBook
Author Dillon Wallace
Publisher
Pages 356
Release 1913
Genre Canada, Eastern
ISBN

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Mysteries and Sea Monsters

Mysteries and Sea Monsters
Title Mysteries and Sea Monsters PDF eBook
Author Graham Faiella
Publisher The History Press
Pages 227
Release 2021-04-01
Genre History
ISBN 0750995408

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The sea realm has ever been mysterious: strange happenings upon it, an unfathomable abyss of 'The Great Unknown' below. Before the scrutiny of scientific Enlightenment and Age of Reason, in the eighteenth century, ghost ships and oceanic monsters were the stuff of superstition, myth and legend to explain the inexplicable, to enthral the imagination – and enliven the unimaginable. Narratives of phantom ships manned by ghostly (sometimes skeletal) crews, or damned like the Flying Dutchman to roam the seas forever; of sinister, sinuous sea serpents; and the lore of the terrible multi-tentacled kraken. Accounts inspired spirited controversy amongst believers and sceptics, in the awestruck thrill of such frightful enigmas.

The Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste

The Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste
Title The Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste PDF eBook
Author Graham Faiella
Publisher The History Press
Pages 233
Release 2022-07-14
Genre History
ISBN 1803991313

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4 December 1872: The brigantine Dei Gratia chances upon another brigantine out on the Atlantic near the Azores. She is the Mary Celeste . She is under sail. But she is deserted. Silent as a drowned cadaver. For 150 years since then, the mystery of why the Mary Celeste was abandoned, and what happened to the ten souls on board, has spawned thousands of conjectures, conspiracy theories, fictions and fantasies. Some have thought they solved the mystery. Some have just spun yarns. One, at least, has claimed it was all a hoax. The Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste: 150 Years of Myth and Mystique unveils those stories – the 'fake news', 'alternative facts' and the myths fabricated from fractured truths. These are the real facts in search of a truth that remains unfathomable to this day.