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Guinness Book of Astronomy - Patrick Moore; Guinness Book of Records - Ross and Norris McWhirter (1955-present) Gulistan (book) - Sa'di; Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift ; A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales - L. Sprague de Camp ; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
The book was originally published in 1953 by Little Golden Books, the year after Brown's death.. An interactive CD-ROM version was published in 1996. [2]The 2001 edition lacks four pages of color illustrations and text found in the original 1953 edition as well as the cover illustration from the original (replaced by the illustration from Page 23).
Ch. 7: Back at Jarlshof, Mordaunt rescues a sailor from a shipwreck. Bruce, Norna, and some of the locals arrive on the scene. Ch. 8: At the house of the parish constable Niel Ronaldson, the sailor introduces himself to Mordaunt as Captain Clement Cleveland and gives him a Spanish fowling-piece.
Gann's classic memoir of early commercial aviation, Fate Is the Hunter, is still in print today and considered by many as one of the greatest aviation books ever written. [1] Some of Gann's nautical-themed novels include Fiddler's Green and Soldier of Fortune , which were also turned into major motion pictures.
IN FOCUS: The new FX/Disney+ series, adapted from James Clavell’s 1975 novel, is the most-nominated show at this year’s Emmy Awards. As Kevin E G Perry writes, both the book and show take ...
LANSING — During World War II, Duane Nicol wrote more than 300 letters to his parents, and closed nearly every one in the same way while serving aboard ships in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Perhaps the most dramatic rutter was the 1595 Reysgheschrift by Dutch sailor Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Having sailed to Asia aboard Portuguese ships, Linschoten publicized the sailing directions to the East Indies that had been assiduously kept secret by the Portuguese for nearly a century. The publication of Linschoten's rutter was a ...
A Sailor Went to Sea; Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen; Seamus (Family Guy) Davos Seaworth; Shipwreck (G.I. Joe) Sinbad the Sailor; The Skipper; Snorri Snorrelssen; Starbuck (Moby-Dick) Stay Puft Marshmallow Man