Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters
10 best books like Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World's Most Dangerous Waters (Derek Lundy): Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War, Sailing Alone around the World, Bombshells: United, Vol. 2: War Bonds, Maiden Voyage, The Long Way, A Voyage for Madmen, The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey, At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane, Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, The Stories of Richard Bausch
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War
| Author | Jeff Shaara |
| ISBN | 0345427521 |
With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for...
| Author | Joshua Slocum |
| ISBN | 0140437363 |
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.
Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting...
Bombshells: United, Vol. 2: War Bonds
| Author | Marguerite Bennett |
| ISBN | 1401284728 |
Spinning off of the hit DC Collectibles statue line, the incredible Bombshells reunite once again in a brand-new story about the greatest heroines the world has ever known!
Kate Kane, the all-American Batwoman; Diana f Themyscira, warrior princess of the Amazons; Kara Starikov and Kortni...
| Author | Tania Aebi |
| ISBN | 0345410122 |
Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose the boat and for two years it was her home, as she negotiated...
| Author | Bernard Moitessier |
| ISBN | 0924486848 |
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs,...
| Author | Peter Nichols |
| ISBN | 0060957034 |
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame,...
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
| Author | Linda Greenlaw |
| ISBN | 0786885416 |
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK! Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, Linda Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on the East Coast. Here she offers an adventure-soaked tale of her...
At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane
| Author | John Kretschmer |
| ISBN | 0071475079 |
John Kretschmer is well known in the sailing community as a well-seasoned and experience bluewater skipper. In "At the Mercy of the Sea", he tells the story of three sailors who perished in Hurricane Lenny, which came through the Caribbean in 1999. One of the sailors who perished was John's own friend...
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
| Author | Carl Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0062116150 |
The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Now, Carl Hoffman uncovers startling new evidence that finally tells the full, astonishing story.
Despite exhaustive searches, no trace...
| Author | Richard Bausch |
| ISBN | 0060956224 |
A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven...
A World of My Own: The first ever non-stop solo round the world voyage
| Author | Robin Knox-Johnston |
| ISBN | 0713668997 |
On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost
unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her
helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili,
paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered and
brown, her...
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
| Author | Jonathan M. Metzl |
| ISBN | 1541644980 |
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans...
Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
| Author | Rob Mundle |
| ISBN | 0071361405 |
"Harrowing shoreside reading."Booklist "Should be required reading for all ocean sailors."Library Journal The first book to recount the disastrous events of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart yacht race, Fatal Storm is sure to be a popular paperback selection. Rob Mundle takes readers through...
| Author | John Sandford |
| ISBN | 0399155007 |
A widow comes home to her large house in a wealthy, exclusive suburb to find blood on the walls, no body — and her college-age daughter missing. She's always known that her daughter ran with a bad bunch. What did she call them — Goths? Freaks is more like it, running around with all that makeup and black...
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
| Author | Jill Heinerth |
| ISBN | 0062691546 |
From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep...
When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography Of Led Zeppelin
| Author | Mick Wall (author) |
| ISBN | 1409180603 |
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The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic
For far too long, the menace of concussions has been hidden in plain sight. On playing fields across America, lives are being derailed by seemingly innocuous jolts to the head. From the peewees to the pros, concussions are reaching epidemic proportions. This book brings that hidden epidemic and its...
Deception comes in many forms.
Off-Broadway musical star Grace Harrison is surrounded by accolades and adoration. She’s used to the limelight, but she’s concentrating on her career, and not looking for a relationship.
Until an encounter with a masked man at a masquerade. A...
