Nonfiction » Transportation » Ocean transport
Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic
by Elizabeth Kaye
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 15,610.
Language:
English.
Published: March 15, 2018 by
The Sager Group.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » Social history, Nonfiction » Transportation » Ocean transport
When the Titanic started sinking, who would make it off alive? More than one hundred years after that disastrous and emblematic voyage, Elizabeth Kaye reveals the extraordinary, little-known story behind one of the first lifeboats to leave the doomed ship. A Second Edition of the This New York Times and Kindle best seller, it has been freshly edited and expanded by the author with new material.
Refits, More Ways to Make Your Boat Better.
by John Champion
Series: Cruising Boats, How to Select, Equip and Maintain.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 12,010.
Language:
English.
Published: September 26, 2012.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Sailing, Nonfiction » Transportation » Ocean transport
Six chapters including marine refrigeration, hard stand haul out, refitting in Thailand, engine vibration problems, accessing components on board and mistakes made by builders we have to live with. Non technical and easily understood with a few laughs to make this a fun and informative read.
Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains
by Dennis Powers
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 106,390.
Language:
English.
Published: September 6, 2011.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Transportation » Ocean transport, Nonfiction » Biography » Other biographies
This book showcases the heart-beating salvages and “wondrous death-defying finales” (Kirkus Reviews) by the important wreckers. Readers will see how innovation marched to change the maritime world, and as the most acclaimed wrecker, Captain T.P.H. Whitelaw, observed: “A terrible, always hungry monster, with long white teeth is the sea. A smiling witch one day—a monster the next.”