Reading Across the Pacific

Reading Across the Pacific
Title Reading Across the Pacific PDF eBook
Author Robert Dixon
Publisher Sydney University Press
Pages 396
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 1920899669

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Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia. In the 21st century, both American and Australian literatures are experiencing new challenges to the very different paradigms of literary history and criticism each inherited from the 20th century. In response to these challenges, scholars of both literatures are seizing the opportunity to reassess and reconfigure the conceptual geography of national literary spaces as they are reformed by vectors that evade or exceed them, including the transnational, the local and the global. The essays in Reading Across the Pacific are divided into five sections: 'National literatures and transnationalism', 'Poetry and poetics', 'Literature and popular culture', 'The Cold War', and 'Publishing history and transpacific print cultures'.

Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1)

Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1)
Title Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1) PDF eBook
Author Tod Olson
Publisher Scholastic Inc.
Pages 143
Release 2016-10-25
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0545928125

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LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival. World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel.At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact, they will be left stranded without food or water hundreds of miles from civilization. Eight men. Three inflatable rafts. Sixty-eight million square miles of ocean. What will it take to make it back alive?

Across the Blue Pacific

Across the Blue Pacific
Title Across the Blue Pacific PDF eBook
Author Louise Borden
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 48
Release 2006
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780618339228

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A woman reminisces about her neighbor's son who was the object of a letter writing campaign by some fourth-graders when he went away to war in 1943.

The Pacific

The Pacific
Title The Pacific PDF eBook
Author Hugh Ambrose
Publisher Penguin
Pages 624
Release 2010-03-02
Genre History
ISBN 1101185848

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The New York Times bestselling official companion book to the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® miniseries. Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix! Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home. In The Pacific, Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories of five men who put their lives on the line for our country. To deepen the story revealed in the HBO® miniseries and go beyond it, the book dares to chart a great ocean of enmity known as the Pacific and the brave men who fought.

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy)

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy)
Title Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (The Pacific War Trilogy) PDF eBook
Author Ian W. Toll
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 732
Release 2011-11-14
Genre History
ISBN 0393083179

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Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.

Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm

Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm
Title Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm PDF eBook
Author Tony Farrington
Publisher McGraw Hill Professional
Pages 310
Release 1998-03-22
Genre History
ISBN 9780071398909

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In June of 1994 a dangerous "bomb" storm caught dozens of cruising sailors by surprise as they voyaged north from New Zealand. This is the true story of how nine yachts struggled to survive the hurricane-like conditions. Boats were battered by fierce winds and capsized by seas towering well over 50 feet high. Equipment was ripped loose, and water penetrated every weak point. Masts collapsed, rudders broke, and sailors lost steering control when they needed it most. The crews coped as best they could with injury, fear, exhaustion, and illness. Their electronic calls for help were picked up by satellites and radio operators, who initiated a massive air and sea search. This is the story of heroic rescues, human endurance, and tragic loss.

The Open Boat

The Open Boat
Title The Open Boat PDF eBook
Author Webb Chiles
Publisher W. W. Norton
Pages 204
Release 1982-01-01
Genre Pacific Ocean
ISBN 9780393032680

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