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A couple becomes shipwrecked on an island of literary zealots, a place where every subject/feeling deserves expression. Sound familiar?

Harry Goddard overlever med nød og næppe et dramatisk skibsforlis midt ude på Stillehavet. Alt håb lader til at være ude, da han til sit store held bliver samlet op af den gamle fragtdamper S.S. Leander, der er på vej til Filippinerne. Så vidt Harry ved, er der kun nogle få passagerer og en harmløs last om bord. Det viser sig imidlertid, at det nok havde været mere sikkert, om Harry var blevet i vandet...Den texasfødte amerikanske forfatter Charles Williams (1909-1975) fik sin litterære debut i 1951 med romanen "Hill Girl", der solgte mere end en million eksemplarer. Herefter udgav Williams stribevis af romaner, og han bliver af mange vurderet som en af sin tids bedste krimiforfattere. Adskillige af Williams‘ film blev desuden filmatiseret til enten TV eller det store lærred i både USA, Frankrig og Australien.

Pierre Aronnax is een beroemde mariene bioloog, die samenwerkt met zijn knecht Koenraad en harpoenier Ned Land. De drie dappere mannen jagen volhardend op een mysterieus zeemonster in het gevaarlijke zeewater. Maar er dreigt een groot gevaar. Waarom jagen de drie matrozen op het monster? Waarom willen ze het koste wat kost doden? Zullen ze slagen of zal het wezen hen aanvallen en doden? Kom achter de antwoorden in deel 1 van Jules Vernes klassieke sciencefiction- en avonturenroman 'Twintigduizend mijlen onder zee' uit 1870.Jules Verne (1828-1905) werd geboren in de Franse havenstad Nantes en had advocaat moeten worden zoals zijn vader, maar hij rende vroeg van huis weg om toneelstukken en artikelen voor tijdschriften te schrijven. Zijn samenwerking met de uitgever Pierre-Jules Hetzel leidde tot de magisch populaire boekenreeks 'Voyages extraordinaires', of 'Buitengewone reizen'. Beroemde titels in deze serie zijn onder andere 'Naar het middelpunt der aarde' (1864), 'Twintigduizend mijlen onder zee' (1870) en 'De reis om de wereld in 80 dagen' (1873). Verne deed altijd uitgebreid wetenschappelijk onderzoek voor hij met schrijven begon.Jules Verne is ten onrechte geclassificeerd als kinderschrijver vanwege de verkorte en vervormde versies van zijn boeken, terwijl hij als auteur in Frankrijk de artistieke avant-garde heeft beïnvloed.Jules Verne is de op één na meest vertaalde auteur ter wereld - tussen Agatha Christie en William Shakespeare in - en wordt vaak de vader van het genre sciencefiction genoemd.

In 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and women boarded a plane to see ?Shangri-La,? a beautiful valley deep within Dutch New Guinea. But when the plane crashed, only three pulled through to battle for survival. Emotionally devastated and badly injured, the trio faced certain death. Caught between spear-carrying tribesmen and enemy Japanese, they trekked down the jungle-covered mountainside and straight into superstitious natives rumored to be cannibals.Drawn from interviews, Army documents, photos, diaries, and original film footage, Lost in Shangri-La recounts this true-life adventure for the first time. Mitchell Zuckoff reveals how the trio traversed the jungle; how brave Filipino-American paratroopers risked their lives to save the survivors; how a native leader protected the Americans; and how a cowboy colonel attempted an untried rescue mission to get them out. A riveting work of nonfiction that brings to life an odyssey at times terrifying, enlightening, and comic, Lost in Shangri-La is a thrill ride from beginning to end.

La Salamandre fend les vagues en direction de l'Inde. Ce navire de la flotte militaire compte à son bord le capitaine et marquis de Longetour. Longtemps tenancier d’un bureau de tabac, il a tout oublié de la navigation. Il s'appuie désormais sur son second, le lieutenant Pierre Huet, un amoureux de la discipline et de l'honneur.Mais malgré l'expérience de Pierre et ses efforts pour maintenir le cap, le navire est en proie aux tensions de ses moussaillons, à l'agitation des éléments naturels, et à la constante menace des pirates…Huit clos, naufrage, mutinerie, pirate et enlèvement, il s'agit là de la fabuleuse aventure maritime d'Eugène Sue. Auteur des « Mystères de Paris », il affirme son statut d'auteur magistral dans un roman d'aventures nourri d'un romantisme noir.Eugène Sue (1804-1857) est un écrivain français, élevé dans la richesse de la garde de Napoléon Ier. Enfant, c’est un élève turbulent qui, malgré une famille de chirurgiens à l’hôpital de la maison du roi, souhaite démissionner de ses obligations pour devenir Dandy. Son père meurt alors qu’il n’a que 28 ans, lui léguant une fortune considérable. Eugène Sue en profite, et dépense en seulement sept ans tout l’argent. Il doit se consacrer de nouveau à la littérature pour arrondir ses fins de mois. Il commence par des romans maritimes, écrits dans un romantisme noir, qui relatent ses expériences de voyage en tant que militaire chirurgien. « La Salamandre », 1832, est un succès. Son socialisme engagé grandit, et sous un plume critique, écrit de 1842 à 1843 « Les Mystères de Paris », suivi du « Juif errant ». Lors de l’accession au pouvoir par Napoléon III, Sue s’emporte violemment contre le coup d’État. Condamné à la prison, il s’exile. « Les Mystères du peuple » est publié mais doit déjouer la censure.

"The USS Macaw was one of the few Chanticleer-class submarine rescue vessels active in World War II, and she was the only one that met a harrowing end not at the hands of any human enemy, but from the sea itself. On January 16, 1944, the Macaw was doing her job in the Midway atoll attempting to rescue the USS Flier when, like the Flier, she ran aground on a reef, much to the surprise and horror of her crew. Almost immediately, other rescue vessels rushed to the scene to help, but after nearly an entire month of salvage attempts, the Macaw remained stranded. On February 11, 1944, surrounded by rough seas and freakishly high winds, she slipped off the reef and succumbed to the ocean. Five men (including the ship's commander) died as they abandoned ship. After the commander's death, it was the ship's executive officer-Tim Loughman's father-who took charge. Lieutenant Loughman's impromptu command ensured that 115 men would survive the wreck, but he never shared the full story of his bravery with his children. After his death, they discovered their father's archive of handwritten eyewitness accounts and personal photographs, and Tim set out to interview the Macaw's surviving crew and other individuals involved in the attempted rescue. He tracked down men like Bob Jacobsen and Edward Anthony Pitta, seamen who proved to be complex real-life characters whose stories deserve to be told. He uncovered the story of Paul Burton, a US Naval Academy graduate struggling to redeem his career after getting blackballed out of submarine duty. Loughman came to see that Burton's story and that of the ship were part of parcel of each other as Burton's struggle for redemption evolved into one for survival-of his career, his ship, twenty of his enlisted men, his executive officer and himself. In The Wreck of the Macaw, Loughman paints a picture of a vessel that was vivid with hope and simmering with tension in its final tumultuous days. His narrative brings World War II naval history to life and sheds new light on the role of auxiliary vehicles and Liberty ships in the Pacific war as well as the on the Battle of Midway. But his primary focus is on the personal-on life aboard ship and ashore, on the trauma of running aground, on the struggle of the twenty-two men trapped aboard during the harrowing final hours, and on the four men from Naval Operating Base Midway who braved the tremendous surf battering the ship in an unauthorized rescue attempt that cost three of them their lives. Loughman reveals the complex web of relationships aboard ship, detailing a community in which crewman were often at war with themselves, with each other, and with the elements"--

Kirjailija Jack London tunnetaan erityisesti Klondikeen sijoittuvista novelleista ja romaaneista, joissa kullankaivajat ahertavat vaativissa olosuhteissa. London oli ollut Klondikessa myös itse. Klondike ei kuitenkaan ole ainoa paikka, jonne Londonin omat seikkailut suuntautuivat. Vuonna 1907 Jack London päätti purjehtia eteläisen Tyynenmeren yli Snark-purjeveneellään. Matkaseurana oli vaimo Charmian London. Yhdessä he kokivat uskomattomia seikkailuja alueen saarilla ja vierailivat Bora Boran kaltaisissa eksoottisissa paikoissa. Matkalla oli suuri vaikutus myös Jack Londonin kirjallisuuteen. Esimerkiksi Auringon poika -nimisen novellikokoelman novellit sijoittuvat Tyynenmeren saarille.Etelämeren auringon alla on selonteko tästä Londonin jännittävästä matkasta.Jack London (1876–1916) syntyi San Franciscossa. 15-vuotiaasta saakka hänen oli selvittävä omillaan huonosti palkatuissa töissä, kuten kullankaivajana Pohjois-Amerikan erämaassa. Myöhemmin London palasi takaisin Kaliforniaan ja alkoi työskennellä lehtimiehenä ja kirjailijana. Lyhyeksi jääneen elämänsä aikana Londonista tuli sekä rikas että kuuluisa Yukon-aiheisilla romaaneillaan, kuten Erämaan kutsu (1903) ja Susikoira (1906).

I landsbyen Infanta på en tropeø i Stillehavet bor fem gamle jesuitpræster sammen med den smukke indfødte kvinde Mayla, som de har opfostret, og som nu holder huset og for det meste står i køkkenet. Da den unge, mandlige fotomodel Kurt Lukas strander på øen, accepterer præsterne, at han kan flytte ind hos dem. Kurt og Mayla opdager hurtigt hinanden, og det bliver begyndelsen på en lidenskabelig kærlighedsrelation mellem de to. Men hvad siger præsterne til deres forhold? Var det hele tilskyndet af dem? Og hvad har resten af landsbyens beboere med det hele at gøre? "Infanta" er en intens roman om identitet, lidenskab og kærlighed. Bodo Kirchhoff (f. 1948) er en tysk forfatter. Han blev født i Hamborg og blev uddannet i pædagogik ved universitetet i Frankfurt med en afhandling om psykoanalytikeren Jacques Lacan. I 1979 blev han opdaget af et tysk forlag, som gerne ville udgive hans bøger. Kirchhoff har udgivet tyve romaner på tysk, hvoraf en lang række af dem er oversat til adskillige sprog, herunder dansk. I 2016 vandt han litteraturprisen Deutsche Buchpreis for romanen "Vederfarelse".

Illustrated with stunning photographs, this nonfiction picture book introduces readers to Onyx. He's a member of J pod, the famous family of southern resident orcas off the coast of British Columbia and Washington.

"In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the "Bomber Mafia", asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal? In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, "Was it worth it?" Things might have gone differently had LeMay's predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war"--

AWAITING THE DREADED WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM.After twenty years at sea dreaming of commanding his own ship, Malcolm Peters finally gets his wish. In early December 1941, Peters sails from San Francisco bound for Hawaii on his first voyage as captain of the 324-foot S.S. Malama, a Matson Lines freighter. But the new commander's triumph is short-lived.Captain Peters and his young family are torn apart in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that pulls the U.S. into World War II. Within weeks, the Malama disappears at sea. Left alone to make ends meet and to care for two small children, Leone Peters fears delivery of a dreaded Western Union telegram with bad news. What has become of her husband? Will she ever see him again?With refreshing candor, author Judy Warwick writes about her father's mind-numbing years in Japanese POW camps and her mother's struggle and heartache on the home front. First Command 1941 is an absorbing, extensively illustrated family memoir about unlucky timing, courage, strength, and survival.

This nonfiction book for middle readers tells the story of the northern elephant seal, from being hunted to near extinction less than 100 years ago to their thriving population of more than 250,000 today. Illustrated with photos from the author.

Ed Gilfillen's account of a remarkable adventure in maritime has stood the test of time. He was diagnosed with what would prove a fatal case of multiple myeloma in the mid-1970s. His suspicion upon treatment was that the cancer had been a result of radioactive exposure suffered while a participant in the CROSSROADS atomic tests at Eniwetok Atoll in 1946. Warned that his story was classified at the time, it remained a secret from the end of the operation to evaluate America's atomic status until his death in 1978. A life-long athlete and technical expert, he kept his secret as directed, but wrote an account that came to me as a young Naval Intelligence officer after his passing. I promised his story would be told. It combines a rollicking old-school sea story with something else completely new. Ed called his his non-volunteer sailors "a Pirate Crew of Yankees" attempting to operate the last capital ship of a proud Navy with all instructions in Japanese. After a wild transit of over 2,000 miles, Nagato was anchored in a position to suffer the blows of two powerful atomic detonations by the same 'Fat Man' designs that ended a war. It is a tale of nautical magic and atomic mystery on which the future of a world would be based. It was not until Ed, and hundreds of Atomic Veterans had died that the Clinton Administration allowed the curtain to be lifted. The time for Ed's story is finally here.

An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navy's long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War.Edward Young explores these rarely written about combats, examining the aggressive and strategic tactics deployed by both US Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force and analyzing the technical improvements installed throughout the war.The PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer was the US Navy's first four-engined, land-based bomber, adapted and allocated to fight the U-boat menace in the Atlantic and protect the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean. The long range, speed, armament and bomb load of the PB4Y-1 enabled the US Navy's Pacific squadrons to adopt more aggressive tactics. The PB4Y-1, and its follow-on PB4Y-2, engaged in dangerous bombing missions against Japanese installations, shipping strikes, and air combat. On the other side, with its doctrine of making the first strike against an enemy fleet, the Imperial Japanese Navy recognized the vital importance of maritime reconnaissance, relying on carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, ship-borne floatplanes and, for long-range maritime patrol, flying boats. The Japanese would continue to develop their aircraft throughout the war, resulting, among others, in the H6K 'Mavis' and the H8K2 'Emily', which despite never achieving a victory, was regarded by the Allied pilots as the most difficult Japanese aircraft to destroy. Enriched with specially commissioned artwork, including armament and cockpit views, battlescenes and technical diagrams, this title analyses technical specifications in detail. By including first-hand accounts, aviation expert Edward Young provides a detailed account of these one-sided yet dramatic and aggressive combats.

Es beginnt auf einer Südseeinsel in der schönsten Umgebung.Ein scheinbar harmloses Seminar endet mit einem schrecklichen Erwachen. Es bleiben von Mirella nur verzweifelte Aufzeichnungen in Ihrem Tagebuch. Das Ende eines Menschen wird zu einem Anfang, der alles bisherige verändern soll.Vaclav Santini spielt die erste Geige in seinem Prager Orchester. Die Entfremdung zu seiner Frau Mirella hatte sich eingeschlichen wie ein Dieb in der Nacht. Sie war in einen Sog gewisser Kreise geraten, der ihr zum Verhängnis werden sollte.Anneke Vermeer aus Amsterdam meldet sich unerwartet und kommt für einen Besuch nach Prag. Das Wiedersehen mit Vaclav gestaltet sich völlig anders als erwartet. Der Tod Mirellas wirft Widersprüche auf, die Vaclav und Anneke in den Strudel der Ereignisse ziehen.Kommissar Jasinski in Prag tappt zunächst im Dunkeln. Spuren führen nach Amsterdam. In Amsterdam setzen sich langsam Bruchstücke zusammen. Es ergibt sich ein roter Faden, der Experimente an Menschen offenlegt, deren Anwendung unvorstellbare Folgen haben wird. Ein Szenario aus Verschleierung und Manipulation macht die Spurensuche fast unmöglich.Ein Konzern gerät ins Zentrum der Ermittlungen. Die Ergebnisse übertreffen alles bisher Denkbare. Kann dem geplanten Albtraum Einhalt geboten werden?

Robinson Crusoe é o único sobrevivente de um desastre que matou toda a tripulação do navio em que viajava. Ele passa a viver sozinho numa ilha deserta onde deve usar toda sua inteligência e coragem para lutar pela sua sobrevivência. Será que algum dia ele conseguirá sair dessa ilha?Além da bravura desse herói, essa obra trata de temas mais profundos como a lucidez, a solidão e a importância do contato social para o homem. Esse romance foi adaptado no filme de animação homônimo de Vincent Kesteloot, produzido em 2016.Tradução e adaptação de Monteiro Lobato.Este audiolivro é narrado em português brasileiro.Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) foi um escritor e jornalista inglês considerado precursor do romance realista inglês. Membro de uma família dissidente da Igreja Anglicana, ele tentou preparar-se para seguir a carreira eclesiástica, mas acabou desistindo da carreira religiosa. Decidiu se estabelecer como comerciante e viajou muito pela Europa com diversos empreendimentos comerciais, mas não obteve muito êxito nesta área. Atraído pela política, ele escreveu numerosos panfletos.O seu romance "Robinson Crusoé" rendeu-lhe fama e notoriedade. Essa obra-prima foi adaptada diversas vezes, destacando-se o filme homônimo produzido em 1997, estrelando Pierce Brosnan, e a série de televisão "Crusoe" (2008-2009) produzida pela FOX.

Semper Fi, Mac brings to life the Marines of World War II -- the tough, battle-trained troops who stormed the beaches of Bougainville, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa -- in some of the bitterest and bloodiest fighting of the war. Compilied from over seventy-five interviews with surviving officers and enlisted men, these powerful firsthand accounts give us a soldier's-eye portrait of the Marine Pacific war experience -- the camaraderie, the women, the loneliness, the fear -- and the profound emotional as well as spiritual rewards that resulted. Former machine gunners, riflemen, mortarmen, and engineers share the horrifying and humorous stories that defined their days in the Pacific. Through this filter of recollection, one truism is reflected time and again: "there is no such thing as an ex-Marine." A tour-de-force that pays tribute to the spirit of the nation's premier fighting force, Semper Fi, Mac is a multifaceted portrayl of men, war, bravery, honor -- and, as "The Marines' Hymn" so proudly proclaims, fidelity to the military tradition that inspired them.

John Costello's The Pacific War has now established itself as the standard one-volume account of World War II in the Pacific. Never before have the separate stories of fighting in China, Malaya, Burma, the East Indies, the Phillipines, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the Aleutians been so brilliantly woven together to provide a clear account of one of the most massive movements of men and arms in history. The complex social, political, and economic causes that underlay the war are here carefully analyzed, impelling the reader to see it as the inevitable conclusion to a series of historical events. And the bloody fighting that indelibly recorded names like Midway and Iwo Jima in the annals of human conflict is described in detail, through its ominous conclusion in the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

'Een kapitein van 15 jaar - In slavernij' is het tweede en laatste deel van 'Een kapitein van 15 jaar'.Zou je kapitein van een walvisjaagschip kunnen zijn als de hele bemanning omkwam in een tragedie? Zou je dat zelfs maar willen? En wat zou je doen als de kok aan boord zijn eigen plannen heeft en je wil vermoorden? Dit en nog veel meer is waar de arme vijftienjarige Dick Sands als enig overlevend bemanningslid mee te maken krijgt.Alles lijkt volgens plan te verlopen. Totdat de kok het schip saboteert en de groep, in plaats van in Zuid-Amerika aan te komen, in Afrika belandt. Het plan van de gemene kok is om iedereen aan boord als slaaf te verkopen. Zullen ze alle obstakels en onverwachte gebeurtenissen overleven of zullen ze het slachtoffer worden van de Afrikaanse slavenhandel?'Een kapitein van 15 jaar - In slavernij' is een avonturenroman die je niet alleen tot het einde toe in spanning houdt, maar ook de wijdverbreide veroordeling van slavernij verbeeldt.Jules Verne (1828-1905) werd geboren in de Franse havenstad Nantes en had advocaat moeten worden zoals zijn vader, maar hij rende vroeg van huis weg om toneelstukken en artikelen voor tijdschriften te schrijven. Zijn samenwerking met de uitgever Pierre-Jules Hetzel leidde tot de magisch populaire boekenreeks 'Voyages extraordinaires', of 'Buitengewone reizen'. Beroemde titels in deze serie zijn onder andere 'Naar het middelpunt der aarde' (1864), 'Twintigduizend mijlen onder zee' (1870) en 'De reis om de wereld in 80 dagen' (1873). Verne deed altijd uitgebreid wetenschappelijk onderzoek voor hij met schrijven begon.Jules Verne is ten onrechte geclassificeerd als kinderschrijver vanwege de verkorte en vervormde versies van zijn boeken, terwijl hij als auteur in Frankrijk de artistieke avant-garde heeft beïnvloed.Jules Verne is de op één na meest vertaalde auteur ter wereld - tussen Agatha Christie en William Shakespeare in - en wordt vaak de vader van het genre sciencefiction genoemd.

I en sen nattetime i New York kimer en mobiltelefon på et natbord. Freelance computerekspert Anders Kloder, med danske rødder, tilbydes en yderst lyssky opgave – mod en fyrstelig betaling. Men Anders Kloder er ikke den eneste, der har modtaget dette mystiske opkald. Tre andre computereksperter har fået samme tilbud og sammen rejser de fire om på den anden side af kloden til et afsides område, der gemmer på en velbevaret hemmelighed. Dybt nede i Marianer-graven. Inden længe går det op for dem alle, at ikke alt er, hvad det udgiver sig for at være. Hvem kan de stole på? Og er de blot en lille brik i et større puslespil?idden /title /head body center h1 403 Forbidden /h1 /center /body /htmlSteffen Nohr (f.1981) er en dansk forfatter bosat i Aarhus-området. Han debuterede som romanforfatter i 2009 og har sidenhen udgivet en række romaner i spændings- og adventuregenren.

Dieser opulente Landschaftsbildband besticht durch seine wunderschönen Naturfotografien, die Darstellung der Flora und Fauna sowie zahlreichen, wunderbaren Städteansichten.