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21) Sail away
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©1995.
Language
English
Description
A family takes a trip in their sailboat and watches the weather change from gentle sunny weather and calm seas to dark and storm weather and angry seas. They turn for home and a lighthouse helps them on the way until are safe.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000 miles to Hollywood"--Amazon.
"In the late 1990s, Patrick O'Brian's multimillion-copy-selling historical novel series--the Aubrey-Maturin series, which was set during the Napoleonic Wars--seemed destined for film. With Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin, the production only needed a ship that could stand in for Lucky...
27) STYX
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering. Carrying...
29) We the children
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
Author
Publisher
Patagonia
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 2006, Liz Clark decided to follow the path that surfing, sailing and love of the ocean had presented to her. Embarking on an adventure that most only dream of taking, she set sail from Santa Barbara, solo, headed to the South Pacific. Nine years later she is still following her path in search of surf and self and the beauty and inspiration that lies beyond the beaten path. In stories overflowing with epic waves and at the whim of the weather, Liz...
34) The crossing
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Miller's The Crossing is a fascinating modern tale of a brave and uncompromising woman's attempt to seize control of her life and fate. Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This girl who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That was where it all began. He wants her-wants to rescue her, to reach her. Yet there is nothing to suggest Maud has any need of him, that she is not already complete. A...
36) Maidentrip
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fourteen-year-old Laura Dekker set out, camera in hand, on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura now finds herself far from land, family and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom, adventure, and distant dreams of her early youth at sea.
Author
Series
Poppleton volume 3
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Poppleton the pig goes stargazing, tries out a new bed before he buys it, and goes sailing for the first time.
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