When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient crystal sepulchre. Inside are two Atlanteans who have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years! One of...
Shipwrecks
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Author:Haggard, H. RiderSummary: - Author:Nicholson, George S. W.Summary:
Index of shipwrecks. History from the time of the landing of the Spaniards and Captain Cook.
- Author:Probst, Jeff, Tebbetts, ChristopherSummary:
Buzz, Vanessa, Carter, and Jane are no closer to being rescued than they were when they first found themselves stranded on a deserted island. If anything, they're worse off than ever, having lost their boat to a tropical storm--and with...
- Author:Butler, PaulSummary:
In 1925, in a London restaurant, J. Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line, has a quiet dinner with his daughter Evelyn. Through the extravagant foliage of the dining room, a young woman watches. Like Ismay, Miranda...
- Author:Duke, DarrellSummary:
When the crew of the fishing schooner Annie Healy left their home port of Fox Harbour, Placentia Bay, on Wednesday, August 17, 1927, no one could have imagined what fate held in store for them. Times were hard in Newfoundland that year...
- Author:Wyss, Johan DavidSummary:
William, Elizabeth, and their four sons Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz are on a large ship when a terrible storm strikes. The ship's crew gets to safety on lifeboats leaving behind the Swiss family. The family now stranded on the...
- Author:Martinusen-Coloma, CindySummary:
Claire O'Rourke is a young writer visiting per parents in her small hometown. Her life soon becomes connected to that of the reclusive Sophia Fleming, an older woman who has lived in isolation for many years. When Sophia finds a...
- Author:Henthorne, ColinSummary:
The 2006 sinking of the BC Ferries passenger vessel Queen of the North. Ten years later, questions are still being asked. How did a ship that sailed the same course thousands of times fall victim to such an inexplicable error? Was the...
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Author:Ruiz Zafón, CarlosSummary:It's wartime, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things begin to happen. In...
- Author:JUNGER, SebastianSummary:
It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high - a tempest created by such a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm".
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Author:Pérez-Reverte, ArturoSummary:At a maritime auction in Barcelona, Merchant Marine officer Manuel Coy sees an intense bidding war erupt over a seemingly innocuous 18th-century atlas. The auction winner is the beautiful Tánger Soto, who is obsessed with a Jesuit ship...
- Author:Cross, L.D.Summary:
When the members of Canada’s First Arctic Expedition set out from Victoria aboard HMCS Karluk in the summer of 1913, it was a moment of great optimism. The three-year mission would chart unexplored landmasses of the Western Arctic and...
- Author:Abbott, LindaSummary:
The banking schooner Marion set sail from St. Jacques, Newfoundland, bound for St. Pierre, the home base of Captain Pierre Maurice, on June 10, 1915. The vessel and crew were never seen again. Many have speculated that the...
- Author:Bartlett, Robert A.Summary:
On January 4, 1914, the Karluk was stuck in ice when the ominous sound of the ship’s stern being ripped open by pack ice was heard by all on board. It sounded like the firing of a cannon. Bartlett immediately ordered supplies be...
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
Inspired by True Events
In 1934, North America lay stripped of its riches by a great depression. When the land refused to yield its bounty and the sea grew stingy, everyone in the Western World found it harder to survive,...
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Author:Stilton, TheaSummary:The Thea Sisters investigate a mystery involving a blue-skinned boy found unconscious on the beach by Paulina.
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Tells the story of a tragic 19th-century shipwreck when a ship full of immigrants to the United States foundered off Cape Race, Newfoundland. The story is passed down through the generations of a family of German immigrants, as the...
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west coast of Vancouver Island. As the wreck was shattered by the pounding waves, the survivors...
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Author:Gaynor, HazelSummary:Ireland, 1912. Young Maggie Murphy sets sail on Titanic, though her sweetheart stays behind. After the ship sinks, Maggie wakes up in a New York hospital and vows never to speak of that terrible night again. But many years later, the...
- Author:Collins, GarySummary:
On the night of November 29, 1929, eleven schooners set sail for home from the comfort and safety of St. John’s harbour. They all headed north: directly into the teeth of a deadly hurricane.
Here for the first time are the...
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