True Sea Adventures
By: Donald J. Sobol.
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: T. Nelson
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780840764546
Subjects: Seafaring life -- Juvenile literature; Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile literature; Seafaring life; Adventure and adventurers
Description: The author has collected and retold 22 of true sea adventure stories that fascinated him the most. The sea has always been a romantic and often mysterious place. These stories show why.
Table of contents: title: In the belly of a whale.; title: Horror ship.; title: The unsinkable Captain Boyton.; title: The last torpedo.; title: Death wish.; title: He saw over the horizon.; title: Ghost on the quarter-deck.; title: A cargo of death.; title: Revenge of the Frigorifique.; title: Project Habakkuk.; title: The bottle post.; title: Evidence from a shark.; title: Who fell overboard?; title: The incredible mistake.; title: The seagoing coffin.; title: Across the Atlantic by rowboat!; title: The missing destroyer.; title: Arctic wanderer.; title: The jinxed ocean liner.; title: The real Robinson Crusoe.; title: Some called it murder.; title: The lone survivor.