Desolation Island

Desolation Island
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 0393037053
ISBN-13 : 9780393037050
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Desolation Island by : Patrick O'Brian

Download or read book Desolation Island written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin sail to Australia with a hold full of convicts, including a dangerous spy, while the crew is decimated by disease and their ship, the "Leopard," is pursued by a Dutch man-of-war.

Desolation Island

Desolation Island
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9781446468241
ISBN-13 : 1446468240
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Desolation Island by : Adolfo García Ortega

Download or read book Desolation Island written by Adolfo García Ortega and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the twentieth century draws to a close, a ship heads for Punta Arenas at Chile's southern tip. On board is Oliver Griffin, who is fascinated by the island and spends his life drawing intricate maps of it. He is on an unusual quest, inspired by a photograph of his grandparents embracing a strange automaton that now lives in the Punta Arenas museum. This fearsome metal warrior is a sixteenth-century robot from a proposed mechanical army, commissioned to guard the straight against the English. It was discovered on the island by a grieving woman scouring the archipelago for the bodies of her shipwrecked husband and son, and is now the curious axis around which countless stories spin, surrounded by the terrible yet mesmerizing sea...

Narrative of the Wreck of the "Favorite" on the Island of Desolation [Kerguelen Island]

Narrative of the Wreck of the
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWG1Z3
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (Z3 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Narrative of the Wreck of the "Favorite" on the Island of Desolation [Kerguelen Island] by : John Nunn

Download or read book Narrative of the Wreck of the "Favorite" on the Island of Desolation [Kerguelen Island] written by John Nunn and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adventures in Solitude

Adventures in Solitude
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Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9781550176476
ISBN-13 : 1550176471
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Adventures in Solitude by : Grant Lawrence

Download or read book Adventures in Solitude written by Grant Lawrence and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel “Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim “Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia’s most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating book, CBC personality Grant Lawrence adds a whole new chapter to the saga of this storied piece of BC coastline. Young Grant’s father bought a piece of land next to the park in the 1970s, just in time to encounter the gun-toting cougar lady, left-over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment of other characters. In those years Desolation Sound was a place where going to the neighbours’ potluck meant being met with hugs from portly naked hippies and where Russell the Hermit’s school of life (boating, fishing, and rock ’n’ roll) was Grant’s personal Enlightenment—an influence that would take him away from the coast to a life of music and journalism and eventually back again. With rock band buddies and a few cases of beer in tow, an older, cooler Grant returns to regale us with tales of “going bush,” the tempting dilemma of finding an unguarded grow-op, and his awkward struggle to convince a couple of visiting kayakers that he’s a legit CBC radio host while sporting a wild beard and body wounds and gesticulating with a machete. With plenty of laugh-out-loud humour and inspired reverence, Adventures in Solitude delights us with the unique history of a place and the growth of a young man amidst the magic of Desolation Sound.

Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780393088526
ISBN-13 : 0393088529
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by : Patrick O'Brian

Download or read book Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four." —Stephen Vaughan, Observer Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy—and a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. With a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, outgunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes.

Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast

Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast
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Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 1894765532
ISBN-13 : 9781894765534
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast by : Heather Harbord

Download or read book Sea Kayak Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast written by Heather Harbord and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paddling guide to Desolation Sound and the Strait of Georgia provides historical travel information on a part of the Inner Passage between Vancouver Island and the BC mainland. Follow the Marine Trail up the east coast of Vancouver Island with perhaps a digression to Hornby or Denman islands. Or tackle the savage inflow-outflow winds of Jervis Inlet to reach the jewel of Princess Louisa Inlet.

Desolation Mountain

Desolation Mountain
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781501147487
ISBN-13 : 150114748X
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Desolation Mountain by : William Kent Krueger

Download or read book Desolation Mountain written by William Kent Krueger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger delivers another heart-pounding thriller filled with “dynamic action scenes” (The New York Times) as Cork O’Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the death of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. To Stephen O’Connor, Hamlet’s dour observation is more than just words. All his life, he has had visions of tragedies to come. When he experiences the vision of a great bird shot from the sky, he knows something terrible is about to happen. The crash of a private plane on Desolation Mountain in a remote part of the Iron Lake Reservation, which kills a United States senator and most of her family, confirms Stephen’s worst fears. Stephen joins his father, Cork O’Connor and a few Ojibwe men from the nearby Iron Lake reservation to sift through the smoldering wreckage when the FBI arrives and quickly assumes control of the situation. As he initiates his own probe, Cork stumbles upon a familiar face in Bo Thorson, a private security consultant whose unnamed clients have hired him to look quietly into the cause of the crash. The men agree to join forces in their investigation, but soon Cork begins to wonder if Thorson’s loyalties lie elsewhere. Roadblocked by lies from the highest levels of government, uncertain who to trust, and facing growing threats the deeper they dig for answers, Cork, Stephen, and Bo finally understand that to get to the truth, they will have to face the great menace, a beast of true evil lurking in the woods—a beast with a murderous intent of unimaginable scale. Krueger delivers yet another “punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction” (Booklist, starred review).