Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death.
The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse. Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to leave.
How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.
Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.
It was a BBC documentary on great white sharks visiting California's Farallon Islands that turned Susan Casey from an editor of adventure and outdoors stories in such magazines as Outside to a journalist obsessed with an outdoors adventure of her own. In her Amazon.com interview, Casey recalls the fascinations and the follies of her time with the sharks in the Farallones and discusses everything from the ethics of adventure journalism to the stunning silence and size of nature's perfect predators. And in her answers to the Significant Seven (the seven questions we like to ask every author), she reveals her admiration for both Joseph Mitchell and Johnny Knoxville (once you've read her book, both choices seem appropriate).
The outer edge of the fearsome Maintop Bay, a spooky, boat-eating stretch of water that makes everyone uneasy. Not surprisingly, the sharks seem to love it. (Susan Casey) |
An 18-foot shark investigates a 6-foot surfboard. (Peter Pyle) |
A shark attack at the Farallones is not usually a subtle event. (Peter Pyle) |
Scot Anderson (in orange) observes a feeding. Also in the boat are director Paul Atkins and cinematographer Peter Scoones of the BBC film crew that visited the Farallones in 1993 to film The Great White Shark. (Peter Pyle) |
The Farallones researchers see some action from a shark named Bluntnose. (Peter Pyle) |
An unquiet cove: Just Imagine (Casey's temporary home) at its moorage in Fisherman's Bay, 150 yards west of Tower Point and 200 yards east of Sugarloaf. (Susan Casey) |
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Since Jaws scared a nation of moviegoers out of the water three decades ago, great white sharks have attained a mythical status as the most frightening and mysterious monsters to still live among us. Each fall, just twenty-seven miles off the San Francisco coast, in the waters surrounding a desolate rocky island chain, the worlds largest congregation of these fearsome predators gathers to feed. Journalist Susan Casey first saw the great whites of the Farallones in a television documentary. Within months, she was sitting with the programs two scientists in a small motorboat as the sharkssome as long as twenty feet, as wide as a semitrailercircled around them. From this first encounter, Casey became obsessed with these awe-inspiring creatures, and a plan was hatched for her to join the scientists and follow their research. The Devils Teeth is the riveting account of that one fateful shark season. An exhilarating adventure story, The Devils Teeth offers a glimpse into a violent, uncivilized world ruled by natures most powerful and mysterious predators, a world where man is neither wanted nor needed.
Customer Reviews:
Great topic but self absorbed writer.......2007-09-22
Positives: stories about history of the Farallones and too-brief summaries of scientific information about white sharks.
Negatives: way, way too much information about her own personal struggles. Also, she seems to semi-idolize the scientists in a way that struck me as groupie-like: "He was a striking person, in his early thirties and athletically built, with jet-black hair and dark eyes and a smile that could light up a small midwestern city."
The author picked a great subject, and was clearly willing to do whatever it took to get a story, but she would have been better served by focusing more of her attention on the sharks and the islands. Nothing that happened to her personally seemed all that interesting to me.
Disappointing.......2007-09-20
- Subject: fascinating
- Author's writing style: disjointed and self-focused anecdotes
- Tone of writing: whiny
- Wanted to put it down after 20 pages.
- Despite effort to get through it, did put it down about halfway through.
the book you buy for everybody you know.......2007-09-12
I'm stunned that anybody gave this book less than five stars. Seriously. It's not just a story about sharks hovering around an inhospitable island like savage school buses, tearing apart unhappy sea lions and bubbling up buckets of frothy blood for three months out of the year -- it's an adventure tale, it's a biological mystery, and ... i suspect it's a love story. sharks, yachts, desert islands, divers, journalists ... it's hard to come up with a more gripping page turner. It's one of those books that you give to everybody you know. "Oh, it's your birthday is it, Horace, well, I know what you're getting! Har har har!" And so far, nobody's come back with less than a face of pallid horror, clutching my shirt and saying "I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!!" -- really. it's that good.
Good read.......2007-07-23
I just picked up this book in a discount bookstore in Orlando while on vacation for 4$ not expecting it to be such a great book. While learning about both the animal and natural world, I got to revel in Susan's destruction (of both herself as well as about anything she touched). She is the classic white hunter of years past. In short, it was extreme and I loved it. I recommend folks read it - but only with the attitude of looking for entertainment value.
Not a good ending.......2007-06-11
And not because of anything the sharks do.
Read between the lines and the obsession is not what the author claims. Not a bad first half, but, as other reviewers point out, the latter part of the book is an example of journalist endeavors gone wrong.
Did not leave me happy I had read it. There are too many great books to waste time on anything less.
Book Description
A step-by-step guide to performing the death-defying stunts you thought were only possible in the movies.
For the millions of armchair daredevils who made Worst Case Scenario a mega bestzseller, Hunter Fulghum offers an even more hair-raising handbook. The result of persistent probing, diligent research, and outrageous phone calls to institutions like Fort Knox and the Pentagon, Don't Try This at Home gives thrill seekers everywhere the insider information they crave to show them how to perform feats such as:
*Conduct a SWAT Team hostage
*Rappel off the Eiffel Tower
*Borrow the Mona Lisa
*Form an independent nation
*Break into Buckingham Palace
*Catch a great white shark
*Meet aliens at Area 51
Filled with step-by-step instructions, including lists of necessary tools, timing tips, and helpful illustrations, Don't Try This at Home provides the ultimate guide to doing the impossible.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting and goofy.......2007-02-22
Some are more realistic than others, but all are entertaining. I'll certainly allow this book when I start my own nation off the coast of Africa.
Need Something Amusing to Read?.......2006-03-22
I've found Don't Try This At Home to be lighthearted and fun. It's also impractical and seems to be based largely on complete fantasy. What is it about you ask? Think of it as a 264 page Do-It-Yourself guide for the armchair adventurer.
Megalomaniacs will want to skip right to "Form an Independent Nation". In just 8 short pages, Fulghum describes the steps you'd need to complete. Like most of the items in the book, Forming an Independent Nation does have a large number of prerequisites. For example you will need "hard currency", especially if you choose to acquire your nation through peaceful means. Well no worries, just check out Fulghum's section on stealing gold from Fort Knox.
Thrill seekers, there's plenty of material here for you too. Good starting points are "Fly Through the Eye of a Hurricane" or "Guide and Surface a Nuclear Sub through Ice". My personal favorite is "Drive a Tank through a Tornado". Fulghum says the tank is "available from the US Army, contact the Pentagon to arrange purchase or lease". Does anyone have a phone number?
This stuff might work!.......2005-10-18
So help me, a lot of this stuff might actually work... Of course most of their ideas would take more time, money and resources than i'll ever have, but they're fun to think about!
All you need to know about things you don't need to know.......2004-05-12
Imagine calling Fort Knox and asking the best way to break in and steal the gold. Don't have the guts for it? Don't worry, because Hunter Fulghum has done it for you. He has contacted everyone from the U.S. Dept. of Energy to his local alien experts to find out how you would do everything from Swim the English Channel to Borrow the Mona Lisa to Start an Independant Nation.
Aside from being funny and quite interesting, the book is very well written; I highly recommend it.
Good book.......2004-03-18
Great fun to read, though some of it is a bit obvious... By the way I am starting an independant nation, got this book because I figured I might as well. I was already planning on starting it before I got the book. Getting an island from Nicaragua to make it. Anyways good book. Get it.
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- To fully appreciate Mutiny on the Bounty, Read the full trilogy
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- Mutiny on the Bounty
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Mutiny on the Bounty: A Novel
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MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is the thrilling account of the strange, eventful, and tragic voyage of His Majesty's Ship Bounty in 17881789, which culminated in Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh.
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To fully appreciate Mutiny on the Bounty, Read the full trilogy.......2007-05-14
I would contend that one simply cannot fully summarize or comment on the book "Mutiny on the Bounty" without reading the full Bounty Trilogy. The central issues raised in the first book are resolved implicitly and at length in "Men Against the Sea" and "Pitcairn's Island," where the authors flesh out the denouement. Yes, they are novels, and entertaining in their own right, but on a deeper level they provide moral lessons that make the conclusions inescapable and unforgettable. This was required reading in my high school class and it wasn't until years later that I came to appreciate the full meaning and broad scope of this story, which addresses timeless issues central to the human condition, providing a greater understanding of people, society, and their relationship with the cruel indifference of nature. Although they are novels, I have done some further research on the story, read the trial transcripts, and have found that the facts of the story only bear out more strongly the implicit thesis of the authors. These works are some of the most memorable and useful literature I have ever read. To paraphrased a great philosopher: Read me now, and believe me later. Highly recommended.
Mutiny On The Bounty. the book.......2007-03-09
The book closely follows the movie with Marlon Brando. I purchased the movie on DVD and of course after reading the book I can see the real parallel between them. As always, I admire accuracy in movies and the book that the movie was made from. It was a very good novel and I enjoyed it very much.
British Naval adventure of a different variety.......2007-02-08
If the pleasure that you derive from reading books about turn of the 19th century British Navy is based mainly upon the recounting of broadsides and boarding in the smoke (a la Aubrey/Maturin, Hornblower, et al), then the Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island) should probably not rank high on your list of things to read. However, if what you enjoy about the genre is the period itself, British Naval culture of the era, and intense if non-martial conflict between men, these three books should be high on your reading list indeed. For not only is the period well depicted and the history well laid out in a non-obtrusive fictional account, but the even-handed characterization of the primary actors is a joy to read. There is neither the sermonizing about Bligh nor hagiography of Christian that would be the approach expected of most most modern writers as they view bygone times through the moral squint of contemporary sensibilities. If written along such lines, the Bounty Trilogy would be a vapid depiction of Bligh as a purely bourgeois-imperialist ogre and Christian as a singular paradigm of revolutionary goodness. Instead, Nordhoff and Hall have given us complex characters that fully and deeply engage the reader and make the books a joy to read in-spite of the reader's knowledge of the ultimate outcomes of each volume. Highly recommended to anyone who feels they fit into the above described category of likely-to-be-pleased reader. 5 stars for the entire trilogy.
Mutiny on the Bounty.......2006-11-07
From Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall comes a timeless saga of the men who served aboard the H.M.S. Bounty. Fated to never return to England again, the Bounty would be set adrift in the stormy seas crewed by mutineers and her men across the globe with some reaching tragic fates. Mutiny on the Bounty, the first of the Bounty trilogy follows a young midshipman by the name of Roger Byam. During his voyage, many events happen that cause Byam to question his view on honor, courage, and loyalty. Even as events happen around him, Byam finds a deeper meaning to each of those traits. He realizes that honor, courage, and loyalty are the greatest traits that any sailor could possess, but that it is the man he is loyal to that really determines his nature. This amazing sea adventure will appeal to those who love ocean adventures because this novel will bring the reader to the depths and back. From mutiny to sinking ships and castaways, this is an adventure that sea lovers cannot miss. So join Byam and get ready to set sail on Her Majesty's Ship Bounty and experience the adventures that await the British sailor aboard one of Her warships. Read the book and lash yourself tight to the riggings as you ride the high seas. This book is surely to wash you away!
The story of a captain who understood the letter but not the spirit of the law.......2006-10-24
The story of the Mutiny on the Bounty is actually a trilogy of three books. "Mutiny on the Bounty," is the first, detailing the mutiny itself and the fate of several of the mutineers (and some innocent bystanders) when they are eventually caught. "Men Against the Sea" follows the men who were kicked off the ship when the mutineers took control, and "Pitcairn's Island" is the story of 9 of the mutineers who were never caught because they went to live on the remote and difficult-to-access titular island.
The captain of the Bounty, one William Bligh, is painted as an embezzeler who is also harsh on discipline. He bullies the quatermaster into signing false consumption reports (and then sells what isn't eaten at port), threatening to hang anyone who disagrees with him. Similarly, he is a harsh disciplinarian who orders flogging for the least offenses, regularly insults his first mate (Christian), and is quick to invoke the Law of the Sea to keep the men in line, rather than trying to win their affection and respect. Eventually, he pushes Christian too far, which precipitates the mutiny.
This book is probably the least interesting of the trilogy. It follows a standard narrative structure, being narrated by one (fictional) young officer that Bligh believed to be part of the mutiny. Because of Bligh's testimony, all those left aboard the Bounty (however unwilling) were guilty of mutiny, which sets up the situation where the narrator must depend on the testimony of mutineers to prove his innocence. But overall, there is something meandering about the story that detracts from the overall enjoyment of the book. The most interesting aspect of the book is how well it relives the golden days of British seapower and how it demonstrates the difficulty of the average seaman when faced with a petty tyrant for a captain.
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A collection of stories from the nineteenth century's most legendary voyages of discovery.
For intensity of geographical exploration and wealth of first-rate adventure writing by intrepid men and women, the nineteenth century stands alone. This definitive collection contains thirty-five stories from the most compelling odysseys of the century: Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Richard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Mummery describes a harrowing first ascent in the Alps; Francis Parkman hunts buffalo with the Sioux.
The excerpts are as varied as the voyages themselves—some humorous and lighthearted, others desperate and thrilling—but all are examples of adventure, and adventure writing, at the highest level. Several long-forgotten classics are reprinted here for the first time in one hundred years. From the search for the source of the Nile to the first crossing of the Himalayas to a quest for the origin of species, this book ranges the globe and captures the restlessness of the human spirit. 30 b/w illustrations.
Customer Reviews:
perhaps the best collection of adventure writing.......2003-01-12
The author does an excellent job of culling not only the most interesting and exciting pieces of 19th century travel writing, but editing out the dull parts so that every line draws you in. To make the book even more readable, she writes helpful short introductions which set the scene and explain the context of each adventurer along with his/her adventures. Big names like Darwin and Shackleton are represented along with many lesser known writers who were equally captivating. I've read many exploration/adventure books in the past few years, but as far as a great collection, I've come across no more exciting reading than this one. From Polar to equatorial to nautical, every time of extreme adventure is represented and the incredible leadership of many of the explorers shines through. Even more noteworthy is the obervational detail the authors provide as naturalists and observers of the world around them, largely unexplored during much of that time period. A great read!
THE ALLURE OF THE UNEXPLORED.......2002-12-03
This is an enthralling book, filled with personal, very human stories about some of the most extraordinary expeditions ever ventured.
Remember those old maps that show sea monsters lurking at the rims of certain large, anonymous land masses? They represented the complete unknown, the places no human being had ever ventured into. However, those were the very places that incited wonder and curiosity in imaginations of nineteenth century explorers.
The decision to journey into these lands was a commitment to step into uncertainty of the most extreme kind. Just organizing a journey into an unknown land was a tremendous undertaking, requiring great sums of money, generous and sympathetic supporters, supplies that the crew could only estimate, and a great deal of patience and determination. To launch a journey of exploration was to set off knowing that there was a very good possibility that one would never return. Climate, local inhabitants, wildlife, supplies and the disposition of one's traveling companions were factors that could determine the success or failure of an expedition. But the allure of the unknown was so strong that these determined men and women could never ignore it.
DEAD RECKONING, edited by Helen Whybrow, is an adventure story unto itself. It gathers into one volume the most exciting, most challenging and most dramatic episodes from the most intrepid explorers of the Age of Discovery. Here is Mary Mummery, one of the first women explorers, making her way up slippery ice slopes in the Alps. Here is Alfred Russell Wallace clambering around in thick foliage in the South Sea Islands in an effort to spot new birds as he formulates a theory of evolution that will be eclipsed by Darwin's. Here is Mark Twain "vagabondizing" in the American West and looking at everything with his contagious sense of humor.
These men and women journeyed without the benefit of Gore-Tex or cell phones, down sleeping bags or OFF! insect repellant. They endured endured long voyages on leaking ships, frostbite and insect bites, hunger and thirst, indifference or hostility or envy. Many of them traveled arroganly, with the belief that no land truly existed until it had been visited by an educated white man. All of them, however, expderienced an inner journey that was as profound as their outer journey. All of them were dreamers and visionaries, and all of them were changed forever by the journeys they took.
This book makes you wish that there were more lands to be explored, more wild climates to be endured, and that you yourself could be the one to visit them. Since that it impossible, you can dive into this book and get lost without any of the physical or emotional discomforts these daring adventurerers had to survive.
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Great Shipwrecks and Castaways
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This unforgettable collection of eyewitness acoounts of see-faring catastrophes describes the adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe.
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A collection of short stories........2004-11-30
No photographs, charts or maps here - just a series of short stories for those with an interest in the sea and the overall subject of shipwrecks and castaways. Some interesting stories I had not heard before but just as my appetite was whetted - we moved on to the next. A reasonably good read but not one which will last for the duration of a long-haul flight.
Nothing here for the serious researcher and having read the book, it is easily forgettable.
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The people in Panic Rising are far from the extreme sportspeople happily outrunning an avalanche or blithely bungee-jumping into the Grand Canyon. Brett Nunn tells the story of people who would never try to cheat death — a mother and daughter whose playful tobogganing down a winter hillside plunges them into the terror of a treacherous crevasse; a carefree backpacker whose world suddenly changes when he realizes he's lost in a vast wilderness; two buddies whose fun day of snowmobiling becomes a nightmare when they're suddenly pursued by an avalanche. These stories lay bare the humanity and emotions of people on the edge of disaster and remind the reader of nature’s sometimes lethal power. Based on interviews with the participants in these terrifying scenarios, along with their friends, families, and others whose lives were changed by these events, Panic Rising is filled with gripping stories of ordinary people suddenly brought to the brink of death.
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Hey, I was there.......2004-01-01
As one of the rescuers in a chapter, I can tell you that Mr. Nunn tells the tale honestly and as it happened. I learned things I was unaware of or had forgotten from reading the account I was involved in. This book is an accurate and truthful recount of ordinary people caught up in extraoridnary events.
Respect for Mother Nature.......2003-11-11
Panic Rising is aptly named. I felt the sensation reading these fast-paced stories even though I was in a warm and comfy armchair with a hot cup of tea at hand.
I liked the idea that these adventures involved ordinary people, rescued and rescuers, who showed courage and fortitude to save lives. I connected especially with the stories set in my own backyard, like Heliotrope Ridge that I've ventured out on. It is so easy to imagine spontaneously sliding down an inviting snowy hill into an unseen crevace. Yikes!
I was struck by the inspiring synchronicity in some of the rescues.
I bought this book for my son who loves to hike in the woods and mountains. To be on the safe side maybe it should be accompanied by a personal locator beacon device.
interesting.......2003-11-09
not that great but this book is great. I was impressed by the breadth of coverage including the chapter about whale hunting. Just amazing!!!!
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- Titanicish story from a kids point of view
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Wish Me Luck (Laurel-Leaf Books)
James Heneghan
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Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847 in the middle of the deadly potato famine
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Thirteen-year-old Tom Mullen has always been alone, moving about from one disastrous foster home situation to another. He has never known the true meaning of family love. When he hears that a mass grave has been unearthed on his school grounds, he feels drawn to the grave, pulled toward it, but can’t explain why.
I sucked in a deep breath to try and calm my bursting chest. The smell from the open grave wasn’t bad the way you’d expect from so many dead people. . . . But it wasn’t the smell that got to me, it was the feeling that something in the black pit was calling and reaching out to me, pulling me, that same urge again, the one I’d been getting for the past couple of days, but stronger now and more powerful. It terrified me, if you really want to know the truth.
The truth is Tom’s life is about to change forever.
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Wish Me Luck.......2001-11-28
Reviewer: Middleschool student
Wish Me Luck by James Heneghan.
Jamie lives in Liverpool during World War 2. During the first year of the war there were no air-raids or nothing, so kids and adults started ignoring the war, until one night when the war struck to close to home. Jamie's parents decided to send him to Canada on a boat along with the new kid, Beeker.
On the boat a Navy escort for protection followed them from the U-boats. When the Navy Escort left, Jamie and Bleeker knew they were in danger. That night the boat was bombed, and Jamie and Bleeker were in for the most horrible night of their lives.
Exciting and suspenseful. James Heneghan's creative writing makes you feel like your there. I recommend this book to eight graders and up because it's a little hard to understand sometimes and has bad language.
Wish Me Luck.......2001-11-28
Reviewer: Middleschool student
Jamie lives in Liverpool during World War 2. During the first year of the war there were no air-raids or nothing, so kids and adults started ignoring the war, until one night when the war struck to close to home. Jamie's parents decided to send him to Canada on a boat along with the new kid, Beeker.
On the boat a Navy escort for protection followed them from the U-boats. When the Navy Escort left, Jamie and Bleeker knew they were in danger. That night the boat was bombed, and Jamie and Bleeker were in for the most horrible night of their lives.
Exciting and suspenseful. James Heneghan's creative writing makes you feel like your there. I recommend this book to eight graders and up because it's a little hard to understand sometimes and has bad language.
Wish Me Luck.......2001-11-28
Reviewer: Middleschool student
Wish Me Luck by James Heneghan.
Jamie lives in Liverpool during World War 2. During the first year of the war there were no air-raids or nothing, so kids and adults started ignoring the war, until one night when the war struck to close to home. Jamieýs parents decided to send him to Canada on a boat along with the new kid, Beeker.
On the boat a Navy escort for protection followed them from the U-boats. When the Navy Escort left, Jamie and Bleeker knew they were in danger. That night the boat was bombed, and Jamie and Bleeker were in for the most horrible night of their lives.
Exciting and suspenseful. James Heneghanýs creative writing makes you feel like your there. I recommend this book to eight graders and up because itýs a little hard to understand sometimes and has bad language.
Titanicish story from a kids point of view.......2001-06-08
This is one of my favorite novels to date. The story is that a 12 year old boy is deppressed that he has to leave his parents and England behind, he makes friends and has to endure the teasing of a bully who is in the same cabin as him. However they do not know that the ship they are on will be sunk by a U-boat and that of the 100 kids abord only 14 will survive. Will they be among them? This is a gripping novel with a facinating look at life on a ship and at home from a kids point of view. This book has everything, suspense,horror,religion,and even some romance. The chapter on the sinking is very gripping and exciting. The only complaint I had was that there was not more coverage of the hospital ship and there were a few inapropriate scenes for anyone under 12. Otherwise its excelent.
The Good: Gripping story, excititing sinking sequences, good look at life during WWII
The bad: little coverage of the hospital ship
And the ugly: some inapropriate moments involving naughty bits.
Good Plot But Needing a Bit More Finishing.......2000-06-13
I thought the story of the book was really quite good but it definitely needed something more. More than likely, some editing. Also, it felt like he was trying to rush everything. I think he could have probably made this a 400 page novel instead of a 200 page kid's book.
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- Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
- Living Gluten-Free For Dummies
- Hardboiled and Hard Luck
- Designer Scrapbooks with April Cornell
- Essential Fantastic Four, Vol. 2
- From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books
- Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World
- Build Me an Ark: A Life With Animals
- DAY BY DAY: The Story of Cecil B. Day and His Simple Formula for Success
- Platanaceae through Myricaceae of New York State
Touching the Void
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into the Wild
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
