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1421: The Year China Discovered America
by Gavin Menzies

ISBN 006054094X (0-06-054094-X)
Softcover, Perennial

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The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born. Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history.
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was "to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last more than two years and circle the globe.

When they returned in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships, now considered frivolous, were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed were how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans and transplanted to America, Australia, New Zealand and South America the principal economic crops that have fed and clothed the world.

Now, in a landmark historical journey, Gavin Menzies, who spent fifteen years tracing the astonishing voyages of the Chinese fleet, shares the remarkable account of his discoveries and the incontrovertible evidence to support them. His compelling narrative pulls together ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators to prove that the Chinese had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and solved the problem of longitude three hundred years ahead of the Europeans. 1421 describes the artifacts and inscribed stones left behind by the emperor's fleet, the evidence of wrecked junks along its route -- discovered in locations ranging from the middle of the Mississippi River to tributaries of the Amazon -- and the ornate votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, in honor of Shao Lin, goddess of the sea.

1421: The Year China Discovered America is the story of a remarkable journey of discovery that rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge of world exploration as it has been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this classic work of historical detection.
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Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, Malvina G. Vogel

ISBN 1577656776 (1-57765-677-6)
Hardcover, Spotlight

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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years. [via]
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Al Faro
by Virginia Wolf

ISBN 8420655279 (84-206-5527-9)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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American Sea Writing
by Peter Neill, Nathaniel Philbrick

ISBN 1883011833 (1-883011-83-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA

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The Brendan Voyage
by Tim Severin, Malachy McCourt, Jon Krakauer

ISBN 0375755241 (0-375-75524-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The sixth-century voyage of St Brendan from Ireland to America, is one of the most fascinating of all sea legends. Could the myth of the Irish monk and his crew sailing the Atlantic in a boat made of leather, nearly a thousand years before Columbus, have been reality? In 1976, Tim Severin and a crew of four men, set out to recreate the Brendan legend. Using the exact same methods in constructing their sailing vessel, they set out on their hazardous voyage, making it one of the most inspiring expeditions in the history of exploration. [via]
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
by Jean Lee Latham, John O'Hara Cosgrave

ISBN 0395137136 (0-395-13713-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The story of a boy who had the persistence to master navigation in the days when men sailed by "log, lead, and lookout," and who authored The American Practical Navigator, "the sailor's Bible." [via]
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The Changeling Sea
by Patricia A. McKillip

ISBN 0141312629 (0-14-131262-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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A young girl, bereft of her parents' care by the sea, tries her newly acquired magic skills against it. She evokes from the sea a monster--and a Prince with a strange compulsion. [via]
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky

ISBN 0140275010 (0-14-027501-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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From the Bestselling Author of Salt and The Basque History of the World

Cod, Mark Kurlanskys third work of nonfiction and winner of the 1999 James Beard Award, is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever changed by the world's folly?

A charming fish tale and a pretty gift for your favorite seafood cook or fishing monomaniac. But in the last analysis, its a bitter ecological fable for our time. Los Angeles Times

Every once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight. Such is the case of Mark Kurlansky and the codfish. David McCullough

One of the 25 Best Books of the Year. The New York Public Library

Mark Kurlansky is the author of many books including Salt, The Basque History of the World, 1968, and The Big Oyster. His newest book is Birdseye.
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Endurance
by Alfred Lansing

ISBN 1885283008 (1-885283-00-8)
Hardcover, Adventure Library

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Gipsy Moth Circles the World
by Francis Chichester

ISBN 0071414282 (0-07-141428-2)
Softcover, Ragged Mountain Pr

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This work tells the story of Frances Chichester, who aged 65, set out alone from Plymouth in his 53-foot ketch "Gypsy Moth VI" in August 1966 and sailed eastward around the world through the wild Southern Ocean, stopping only once - the first to accomplish this - in Sydney. Only nine yachts had previously circumnavigated by way of Cape Horn, and of them six had been capsized or somersaulted at least once. This 28,000-mile voyage, completed in May 1967, established new records for speed and endurance, captured the imagination of the world, and earned a knighthood for Chichester upon his return. [via]
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
by Cecil Scott Forester

ISBN 0316290467 (0-316-29046-7)
Softcover, Back Bay Books

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April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy-commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament"-matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. [via]
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Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0140366903 (0-14-036690-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This edition looks at the Scottish identity through the text of Stevenson's classic. The duality of Scottish life - the mercantile, "respectable" Lowland Scot, as represented by David Balfour, and the romantic, rebellious Highlander, Alan Breck Stewart - runs deep in the psyche and literature of Scotland. Although Stevenson claimed that "Kidnapped" was simply an adventure tale to while away the long winter evenings, the journey and experiences of the characters can be seen as a rite of passage. He questions both the values of the "civilized" Lowland society, and the sentimental view of the highlands portrayed by Sir Walter Scott and others. The topography of the novel is detailed in extensive notes, with a Scots glossary to supplement Stevenson's own. [via]
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The Last Grain Race
by Eric Newby

ISBN 0140095713 (0-14-009571-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA

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Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

ISBN 1582790345 (1-58279-034-5)
Hardcover, Trident Pr Intl

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Uniquely designed, this 6" X 9" deluxe edition of Signature Classics features a padded leatherette casing enhanced by gold gilding on all three sides. Highlighted by a full color picture insert on the cover surrounded by gold foil stamping, this series is sure to become a collectable. A Standard Jacketed Edition is also available. [via]
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The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe or York, Marines, As Related by Himself
by Daniel Defoe, Joe Wheeler

ISBN 156179743X (1-56179-743-X)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub

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This reprint of the classic, Robinson Crusoe, by Focus on the Family's "Classic Collection" is the incredible story of one man's triumph over crippling fear, doubt, and loneliness, which resulted in an amazing revelation--God is always with us. [via]
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Lighthouses
by Virginia Woolf, Valerie E. Kenney

ISBN 1586631489 (1-58663-148-9)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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A visual celebration of the magnificent and romantic structures that have guided seafarers for generations. Introduction by the founder of the Lighthouse Preservation Society. 75 photos. [via]
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
by Cecil Scott Forester

ISBN 0316289124 (0-316-28912-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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Horatio Hornblower was born in C.S. Forester's fertile imagination and became arguably more famous, certainly more personal, than Nelson, Cook and Drake combined. He fought in a dozen major campaigns during the Napoleonic wars, and it was in these pages that we first got a glimmer of just how much Bonaparte was hated, and why.
Forester's genius was not tidy, and so this story, which sets Hornblower on course at age 17, is Forester's sixth book about him, though it should have been the first. LIEUTENANT HORNBLOWER, which follows it, carries the intrepid young man another step forward in his career. [via]
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
by Rosemary Border, Cecil Scott Forester

ISBN 0194230414 (0-19-423041-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.' But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself. [via]
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The Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne

ISBN 1428032436 (1-4280-3243-6)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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Out of the Deeps
by John Wyndham

ISBN 034527217X (0-345-27217-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas
by David Goldsmith Loth, P. Freuchen, George Plimpton

ISBN 1592281257 (1-59228-125-7)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr

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Retishella And the Dolphins
by Linda Bond

ISBN 1424118689 (1-4241-1868-9)
Softcover, Publishamerica Inc

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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe

ISBN 1593080115 (1-59308-011-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719 and has inspired countless imitations.
In his own words, Robinson Crusoe tells of the terrible storm that drowned all his shipmates and left him marooned on a deserted island. Forced to overcome despair, doubt, and self-pity, he struggles to create a life for himself in the wilderness. From practically nothing, Crusoe painstakingly learns how to make pottery, grow crops, domesticate livestock, and build a house. His many adventures are recounted in vivid detail, including a fierce battle with cannibals and his rescue of Friday, the man who becomes his trusted companion.
Full of enchanting detail and daring heroics, Robinson Crusoe is a celebration of courage, patience, ingenuity, and hard work.
L. J. Swingle is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Kentucky, where his primary field of study is the intellectual contexts of British Romanticism as reflected in the works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets and novelists.
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Sailing Alone Around the World
by Joshua Slocum

ISBN 1419145800 (1-4191-4580-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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In the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fundy on one side and the fertile Annapolis valley on the other. On the northern slope of the range grows the hardy spruce-tree, well adapted for ship-timbers, of which many vessels of all classes have been built. [via]
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The Sea
by John Banville

ISBN 0307263118 (0-307-26311-8)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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Incandescent prose. Beautifully textured characterisation. Transparent narratives. The adjectives to describe the writing of John Banville are all affirmative, and The Sea is a ringing affirmation of all his best qualities. His publishers are claiming that this novel by the Booker-shortlisted author is his finest yet, and while that claim may have an element of hyperbole, there is no denying that this perfectly balanced book is among the writers most accomplished work.
Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particularly the seductive twins Myles and Chloe. In a very short time, Max found himself drawn into a strange relationship with them, and pursuant events left their mark on him for the rest of his life. But will he be able to exorcise those memories of the past?
The fashion in which John Banville draws the reader into this hypnotic and disturbing world is non pareil, and the very complex relationships between his brilliantly delineated cast of characters are orchestrated with a masters skill. As in such books as Shroud and The Book of Evidence, the author eschews the obvious at all times, and the narrative is delivered with subtlety and understatement. The genuine moments of drama, when they do occur, are commensurately more powerful. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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The Ship
by C. S. Forester

ISBN 1931313172 (1-931313-17-2)
Softcover, Simon Pubns

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Ship of the Line
by C. S. Forester

ISBN 0316289361 (0-316-28936-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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Something Rich and Strange
by Patricia A. McKillip

ISBN 1596871261 (1-59687-126-1)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated

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Star Of The Sea
by Joseph O'Connor

ISBN 0156029669 (0-15-602966-9)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Joseph O'Connor's impressive historical novel, Star of the Sea, examines the unsettled personal tragedies among a group of interrelated characters and their difficulties in disregarding the past. Lord Merridith and his family board the titular ship in 1847, bound for New York, leaving behind an Ireland devastated by famine and strife. The family's beautiful nanny, Mary Duane, is with them, having fled a life of poverty, prostitution, and extreme tragedy. Another passenger, American journalist Grantley Dixon, is lured to America by business and his thinly veiled affair with Lady Merridith. Mary Duane discovers that Pius Mulvey, her former fiancé and the brother of her deceased husband, is among the overcrowded group of disease-ridden steerage passengers. A renowned thief and murderer, Mulvey abandoned Duane, only to return and sabotage her life in Ireland. Despised by his countrymen, Mulvey has been ordered by a group of steerage thugs to assassinate the demonized Merridith or face his own death.
Conflict is inevitable, but O'Connor is more interested in the complexity of history and relationships and how each makes reinvention and resolution impossible. O'Connor presents the story as a work of journalism written by Dixon, composed in the era's tabloid style, even including passages from the captain's register and crew interviews. These devices lend the work a sense of authenticity, reinforced by the author's intimate knowledge of the period and his evocative, realistic prose: "At night one sensed the ship as absurdly out of its element, a creaking, leaking, incompetent concoction of oak and pitch and nails and faith, bobbing on a wilderness of viciously black water which could explode at the slightest provocation." O'Connor conveys a sense of immediacy and dimension in his ambitious story, providing this uncertain voyage with an ultimate sense of direction. --Ross Doll [via]
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The Swiss Family Robinson
by J.D. Wyss, W.H.G. Kingston

ISBN 1420922696 (1-4209-2269-6)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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Shipwrecked! They must find a way to survive and trust in God to protect them on a wild island in the middle of nowhere. [via]
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The Tempest
by William Shakespeare, John Russell Brown

ISBN 1557831823 (1-55783-182-3)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp

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(Applause Books). If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be THE APPLAUSE FOLIO TEXTS. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. Prepared and annotated by Neil Freeman, Head, Graduate Directing Program, University of British Columbia. [via]
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf

ISBN 1853260916 (1-85326-091-6)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. [via]
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The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
by Kenneth J. Harvey

ISBN 1551925923 (1-55192-592-3)
Softcover, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd

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With no more cod to fish, Bareneed, the setting of Kenneth J. Harvey's powerfully eerie The Town That Forgot How to Breathe, has become another Newfoundland outport village on the wane. As one character laments, "Bareneed, once a lively and warm place, now stank of drabness and heartbreak." It's not much of a magnet for tourists, but it has attracted two visitors for the summer: a fisheries officer and his young daughter. Deeply pained by the recent break-up of his marriage, Joseph fails to notice the more curious aspects of the town. It takes him a while to hear about the townsfolk who've been dropping dead for no apparent reason. He's also slow to realize that his daughter Robin's new playmate is the ghost of a drowned girl. When he and Robin find an "exceptionally ugly" sculpin at the end of their fishing line, Joseph again tries to stay calm. But then he takes a closer look at his catch. "Feeling his fingers turn warm while he tried to disengage the hook," Harvey writes, "Joseph whisked them away. Flesh-coloured fluid seeped from the sculpin's wide mouth. A solid object began edging out as he wiped his fingers on his pants--a flesh-coloured sculpted orb, topped with something that resembled hair, matted in mucousy clumps." The porcelain doll's head that emerges from the fish is one in a series of unsettling sights in Harvey's book. As more and more objects are expelled from the sea, Bareneed's most painful secrets come to the surface.
By setting his story in this desolate Atlantic locale, Harvey seeks to do more than add regional flavour to a Stephen King-style tale of an ordinary community plagued by inexplicable events. Instead, the terrors that Harvey describes are rooted in very real psychological and societal traumas. What makes The Town That Forgot How to Breathe so cunning is the way Harvey uses the horror genre as the basis for a provocative defence of Newfoundland's imperiled cultural traditions. Even though his ornate prose style can sometimes get waterlogged in the scenes between the shocks, Harvey has created a book that is as compelling as it is unique. --Jason Anderson [via]
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi, Ruth E. Murray

ISBN 1560545925 (1-56054-592-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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Typee
by Herman Melville

ISBN 1419191608 (1-4191-9160-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Melville's first novel, "Typee" is a tale of adventure set in the primitive islands of the South Seas in the mid 19th century, based on the author's own experience. [via]
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Under the Sea Wind
by Rachel Louise Carson

ISBN 0140253807 (0-14-025380-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Victory
by Joseph Conrad

ISBN 1421997592 (1-4219-9759-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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Victory is a sombre study of good and evil i n Conrad''s mature manner. The characteristic theme of a man reaching out from his apparently total solitude in sympathy for another human being is explored through the story of Axe l Heyst. ' [via]
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The Voyage of the Narwhal
by Andrea Barrett

ISBN 0393319504 (0-393-31950-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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In Andrea Barrett's extraordinary novel of Arctic and personal exploration, maps are deceitful, ice all-powerful, and reputation more important than truth or human lives. When the Narwhal sets sail from Philadelphia in May 1855, its ostensible goal is to find the crew of a long-vanished expedition--or at least their relics--and be home before winter. Of course, if the men can chart new coasts and stock up on specimens en route, so much the better. And then there's the keen prospect of selling their story, fraught with danger and discovery, to a public thirsting for excitement. Zeke Voorhees, the Narwhal's young commander, is so handsome that he makes women stare and men "hum with envy"--perhaps not the best qualification for his post--but he seems loved by all. Only his brother-in-law-to-be, a naturalist, quietly mistrusts him, though he's determined to stand by the youth for his sister Lavinia's sake. At 40, eternal low-profiler Erasmus Darwin Wells has one disastrous expedition behind him and is praying for another scientific chance. He is, however, familiar with the physical risks they're taking, as well as the "long stretches when nothing happened except that one's ties to home were imperceptibly dissolved and one became a stranger to one's life."
And what of the women left behind? Lavinia knows little of the dangers of ice (though she's well schooled in isolation) and lives only for Zeke's return. Her companion, Alexandra Copeland, is less sanguine. Even after she's been given a secret career break--ghosting for an ailing engraver--she knows how invisible she is and how threatening her family's "dense net of obligations" will always be. Though they get less page time, Barrett is in fact as concerned with these women as she is with her seafarers. Like the heroines of her National Book Award-winning Ship Fever, who bump up against science and history in which only men's triumphs are written, they must somehow escape social tyranny or retreat into the consolations of storytelling or silence.
There is tyranny on board the Narwhal as well, as Zeke alternates between good will and paranoia, his closest companion an arctic fox he has "civilized" and who sits on his shoulder "like a white epaulet." (Alas, Sabine, like many of the men, is not to survive the journey.) Encounters with the Esquimaux--who might know more about the lost expedition than they're willing to share--not having gone according to plan, Zeke determines in late August to head for Smith Sound rather than home, despite the crew's protests. By mid-September, however, the craft is ice-locked, and it's clear they'll have to "winter over." At first the men make the best of their situation, magically sculpting cottages, castles, palaces, even a whale--and offering informal seminars in butchery, Bible studies, and basic navigation. However, as the weather worsens and Zeke grows increasingly despotic, morale plummets.
Barrett excels in both physical and social description, writing with a naturalist's precision and a passionate imagination. With quick strokes (backed up by intense research), she can fill us in on some sensible but threatening Esquimaux footgear: "All five were dressed in fur jackets and breeches, with high boots made from the leg skins of white bears. The men's feet, Erasmus saw, were sheltered by the bears' feet, with claws protruding like overgrown human toenails. Walking, the men left bear prints on the snow." The author also shines in panoramic scenes--her descriptions of the Arctic can only be called magnificent--and in small, precarious, personal moments. When Erasmus eventually returns to Philadelphia, minus his toes and his future brother-in-law, a grieving Lavinia takes to her bed. Eventually, however, she relents: "Lavinia stared straight ahead. Straight at Erasmus, her right hand tucked in her lap while her left turned a silver spoon back to front, front to back, the reflections melting, re-forming, and melting again.... Lavinia said softly, 'I forgive you.' Everyone knew she was speaking to Erasmus."
The Voyage of the Narwhal is full of blood-freezing surprises, a score of indelible characters, and heart-stopping mysteries. As Erasmus watches Alexandra draw landscapes he has seen before but missed something in, each pencil stroke is "like a chisel held to a cleavage plane: tap, tap, and the rock split into two sharp pieces, the world cracked and spoke to him." Readers of Andrea Barrett's novel will experience this sensation again and again. Packed with harsh truths about the not-always-true art of discovery, it is also among the most emotionally wrenching, subtle works of the century. --Kerry Fried [via]
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  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Wake of the Perdido Star
by Gene Hackman, Daniel Lenihan

ISBN 1557043981 (1-55704-398-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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White Jacket or the World on a Man-of-Wa
by Herman Melville

ISBN 1421923017 (1-4219-2301-7)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com

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Las Aventuras De Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, Aurora Lauzardo

ISBN 8423990435 (84-239-9043-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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La isla misteriosa/ The Mysterious Island
by Julio Verne

ISBN 8497862759 (84-9786-275-9)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros

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Aimed at young readers, this adventure-themed collection of adapted classic books will entertain youngsters with characters and storylines that seek to foster their love for reading. These classics are a great way for young readers to start building their very own library.

Orientado al público infantil-juvenil, esta colección de obras clásicas de aventura busca entretener a lectores jóvenes con personajes e historias que fomentarán su amor por la lectura. Estos libros clásicos son la manera perfecta para que los jóvenes empiecen su propia biblioteca.

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Las Olas
by Virginia Wolf

ISBN 8472238962 (84-7223-896-2)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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Desde 1931, año de su publicación, Las olas ha sido considerada una de las obras capitales del siglo XX, tanto por la original belleza de su prosa como por la perfección de su revolucionaria técnica narrativa. [via]
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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, Pez

ISBN 9871129505 (987-1129-50-5)
Hardcover, Visor E A S A

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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La Longue Route: Seul Entre Mers Et Ciels
by Bernard Moitessier

ISBN 2700305809 (2-7003-0580-9)
Hardcover, Arthaud

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