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Deep Gold by Douglas Pratt
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA sunken u-boat.A lost cache of Hitler's gold.Can Chase beat a band of Nazis to this hidden treasure?Chase's peaceful beach day is disrupted when he rescues the beautiful Rikki Talen from an attempted kidnapping.He finds Rikki being pursued by a group of neo-Nazis bent on finding a missing German submarine filled with a shipment of gold... -
![The Girl on the Carpathia - A Novel of the Titanic by Eileen Enwright Hodgetts]()
The Girl on the Carpathia - A Novel of the Titanic by Eileen Enwright Hodgetts
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA tragic collision with an iceberg. A ruthless quest to assign blame. Can one young woman stand her ground in the face of a deadly mob? North Atlantic Ocean, 1912. Kate Royston longs to bury her family’s shame. Struggling to start a new life on board the Carpathia, she’s startled by her own tenacity as she helps rescue the Titanic’s desperate survivors... -
![Rising Warrior by Wayne Stinnett]()
Rising Warrior by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter returning home to the Florida Keys, Jesse moves on to Fort Myers, his hometown on the Southwest Florida coast. There is much work to be done and Jesse is no stranger to hard work. On a kayaking adventure with friends, Jesse's daughter finds and rescues a baby manatee suffering from respiratory problems... -
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Blue Waters by Eric Chance Stone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA casual outing with a metal detector ends in a surprising find: not treasure...but the shocking remains of a gruesome murder.Native Texan Rick Waters is a jack-of-all trades: treasure hunter, diver, part-time detective... -
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![The Bear Report by Thyra Heder]()
The Bear Report by Thyra Heder
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA girl and a polar bear take a stunning journey through the Arctic in this award-winning picture book from the author-illustrator of Alfie and How Do You Dance?What’s there to say about polar bears? They’re big. They’re mean. They eat things. Bor-ing. At least that’s how Sophie feels when she sits down to do her homework... -
![Mission One (Titan Chronicles #1) by Samuel Best]()
Mission One (Titan Chronicles #1) by Samuel Best
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFive months to Titan. Four brave crew members. One incredible mystery.Jeff Dolan always wanted to be an astronaut. After helping a private space company build a ship that can travel to Saturn's sixth moon in five months, he gets his chance.Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces Jeff and the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan, or go back home... -
![The Unknown Shore [UNABRIDGED] by Patrick O'Brian]()
The Unknown Shore [UNABRIDGED] by Patrick O'Brian
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPatrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, quite different tale of exploration and adventure... -
![Pandora by Sofia Dalesio]()
Pandora by Sofia Dalesio
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHay tres cosas de las que estoy completamente segura:1) Mi nombre es Emma Stonem.2) Sería capaz de hacer cualquier cosa por mi hermano.3) Soy una actriz de teatro, una lo suficientemente buena para que mi director no me haya echado todavía. Ahora, hay tres cosas que no sabía hasta ayer:1) Mi nombre es Emma Bright y, al parecer, eso no es bueno si eres una chica... -
![The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge]()
The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this stunning novel, award-winning author Beryl Bainbridge offers a fictionalized account of the doomed Antarctic expedition led by Captain Scott in 1912. At once hair-raising and beautiful, here is an astonishing tale of misguided courage and human endurance. The Birthday Boys of the title are Scott and four members of his team, each of whom narrates a section of the book...Categorized as:
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![Breathe by Scott Magoon]()
Breathe by Scott Magoon
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young whale enjoys its first day of independence... -
![The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett]()
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the stories of her 1996 National Book Award-winning collection, Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett explored the human passions at work behind a dazzling array of scientific endeavors... -
![Bitter Passage by Colin Mills]()
Bitter Passage by Colin Mills
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA nineteenth-century Arctic expedition descends into a chilling nightmare in a gripping and epic historical novel of discovery, rescue, deliverance, and survival by any means.In May 1845, Sir John Franklin, commander of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed England to seek a navigable route across the top of the Americas. He and his 128 men never returned... -
![Shark Island by Chris Jameson]()
Shark Island by Chris Jameson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA shark attack survivor believes she has already lived through her worst nightmare. She's dead wrong. . . Naomi Cardiff is not one to give up without a fight and now, after learning about a series of shark attacks in Cape Cod, she s joined a team of scientists to put a stop to the terror. The plan: to lure the sharks to a remote island far from the populated coastline... -
![Drop Off by Edward J. McFadden III]()
Drop Off by Edward J. McFadden III
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNature morphs and twists, and beasts that shouldn’t exist stalk the sea.At the edge of the abyss, where the Blake Plateau abruptly gives way to the deepest parts of the Atlantic Ocean, biologists investigate the largest marine die-off in history... -
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![Deep Black Sea by David M. Salkin]()
Deep Black Sea by David M. Salkin
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA crew of seven aboard a specially designed research submarine sit three miles down in the dark world beneath the sea. When they bring aboard the bacteria that enables certain animals to survive in the seven-hundred degree poisonous water of the black smoker, they have no idea that one of the researchers plans on using them as his test subjects... -
![Stowaway by Karen Hesse]()
Stowaway by Karen Hesse
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt is known that in the summer of 1768, Captain James Cook sailed from England on H.M.S Endeavour, beginning a three-year voyage around the world on a secret mission to discover an unknown continent at the bottom of the globe. What is less known is that a boy by the name of Nicholas Young was a stowaway on that ship... -
![Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing]()
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face of astounding obstacles...Categorized as:
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![Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (Classic Reprint) by Frank A. Worsley]()
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (Classic Reprint) by Frank A. Worsley
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsExcerpt from Endurance: An Epic of Polar AdventureShackleton and his men, Commander Worsley is not recounting the adventures of one man, or even of one man and his followers. He is telling a tale of high courage, of invincible endurance and irrepressible humour through hardship and danger... -
![Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino]()
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHave you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that’s about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on the earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you’re about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind’s chance to... -
![The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell]()
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits by Tommy Caldwell
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El CapitanOn January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is widely regarded as the hardest climb in history--Yosemite's nearly vertical 3,000-foot Dawn Wall, after nineteen days on the route... -
![A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin, Tom Hanks]()
A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin, Tom Hanks
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon... -
![Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy]()
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBased on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North... -
![The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander]()
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent...Categorized as:
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![Apollo 13: Lost Moon by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger]()
Apollo 13: Lost Moon by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn April of 1970, during NASA's fifth mission to the moon, Jim Lovell and his fellow Apollo 13 astronauts found their craft crippled by a mysterious explosion. The authors detail the harrowing and heroic four day rescue. Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures coming June 30, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon... -
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![Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy]()
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator...Categorized as:
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![The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides]()
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this dayOn July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the...Categorized as:
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![438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin]()
438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratings438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history—as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews.On November 17, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to sea... -
![Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford]()
Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt the beginning of the 20th century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic age of exploration. In this work, Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the gret race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen...Categorized as:
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![The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon]()
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald by John U. Bacon
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, the bestselling author of The Great Halifax Explosion tells the definitive story of the “Mighty Fitz.” For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength...Categorized as:
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![Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of America's Richest Shipwreck by Gary Kinder]()
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of America's Richest Shipwreck by Gary Kinder
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1857 the SS Central America floundered in a hurricane and sank 200 miles off the coast of the Carolinas. More than 400 lives and 21 tons of gold were lost. Tommy Thompson located the Central America and establishes a working presence o the deep-ocean floor...
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