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...This is a story about the man who calls himself Shipwreck. He epitomizes the spirit of the poet Flavio Eborenze Didako Piro whose grave was dragged into the sea after the earthquake in the town of Herceg-Novi (Montenegro) in 1667.This historical event is rendered into a j...

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... beyond. To our eyes it stretches from one horizon boundary to another. If this is so, there isn’t enough sky. I’d love to ask for more. Or, perhaps, Shipwreck already told me more than I could know....

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...in the Middle of the Stream: But here I had like to have suffer’d a second Shipwreck, which, if I had, I think verily would have broke my Heart, for k... ...Beasts to hurt me, as I saw on the Coast of Africa: And what if I had been Shipwreck’d there? 48 ROBINSON CRUSOE I have no Soul to speak to, or relie... ... THE JOURNAL. September 30, 1659. I poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwreck’d, dur ing a dreadful Storm, in the offing, came on Shore on this... ...ritably, I had not the least Thankfulness on my Thoughts: When again I was shipwreck’d, ruin’d, and in Daniel Defoe 65 Danger of drowning on this Isl... ...t of Joy which Seamen generally have after they are got safe ashore from a Shipwreck, which they drown all in the next Bowl of Punch, and forget almos... ... a drownded Boy come on Shore, at the End of the Island which was next the Shipwreck: He had on no Cloaths, but a Seaman’s Wastcoat, a pair of open kn...

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...Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving, if dull-witted, Miss Foster. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...

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...ll ages-–especially the young adult reading public–-who continue to find inspiration in the inventive resourcefulness of its hero, sole survivor of a shipwreck who is marooned on an uninhabited island. Especially poignant, after more than two decades of unbroken solitude, is the affection that Robinson develops for Friday, another survivor fleeing certain death at the hand...

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...ravely injured and his dying request is to see his wife. She flies to his side... and thus begins an adventure spanning eight years - love, loathing, shipwreck, love lost, and redemption. (Summary by P. Cunningham and Nadine Eckert-Boulet)...

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...lific writer of historical fiction for young adults. In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates, have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, and finish off escaping from captivity in China (Summary by annise)...

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...e tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called Grampus. Various adventures and mis-adventures befall Pym including shipwreck, mutiny and cannibalism. The story starts out as a fairly conventional adventure at sea, but it becomes increasingly strange and hard to classify in later chapters, involving religious symbolism and the Hollow Earth...

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...comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated from each other by a shipwreck. Viola, believing her brother dead, disguises herself as a page in order to serve the lovesick Duke Orsino, who has been rejected by the Countess Olivia. The ensemble cast includes a roster of wonderfully comic char...

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...Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer of the sinking ship, and a seaman friend of his, alone on the east coast of Africa, where Arab and Portuguese slave traders were still carrying out their evil trade, despite th...

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...ed or wrongly interpreted—in which he terms penance “the second plank after shipwreck,” as if baptism were not penance. Hence, when men have fallen ... ... indeed, how false it is to suppose that penance is “the second plank after shipwreck,” 115 and how pernicious an error it is to believe that the po... ...unthinking masses who are almost always led by the glitter of works to make shipwreck of their faith, to forget their baptism and to injure their Chr...

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... forego the opportunity of escape. For the tempest-tossed seaman, he endured shipwreck. For the Greeks, he appealed to their belief in an unknown God....

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...adness, with the belated anguish of this certain moment. She told me that my uncle died in shipwreck. "His cousin was with him to the end. He clung...

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...the clouds, and the curling of the waves, and a rebellious mutinous crew, and a fearful shipwreck from which a few, a very few, of the wise and prude... ... round with fearful rocks which hinder their passage, and threaten them with inevitable shipwreck. They begin by accommodating the prophecy to the ... ...n; and carry forward this idea; behold what they do to deliver themselves from imminent shipwreck. They pretend to have discovered a terrible enemy, ...

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...to heaven. There is no longer any anchor left to us, let us put to sea and avoid shipwreck. To heaven, to the tribunal of the just judge. Till now, a...

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...ve Morgan for long, and comes back to join the family when when Morgan's mother tells him the boy has fallen ill. There, however, he finds the family shipwreck that he has feared is now taking place, and he is in time to witness it.(Summary by Nicholas Clifford)...

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...No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipwreck on an uncharted island and his supernatural adventures there with a witch, a hairy man, and various devilish devices and traps. The author, Kinross, adds an appendix purporting to explain the marvels which Fordred e...

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...lied herself with Giuseppe Mazzini. She had a relationship with Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child. All three members of the family died in a shipwreck off Fire Island, New York, as they were traveling to the United States in 1850. Fuller's body was never recovered. This project collects her most famous work along with shorter pieces and extracts from her journals ...

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...Cape Peninsula and covers some fascinating topics relating to Cape Town's history such as: - Early history and customs of the Malays in Cape Town - Shipwrecks and Treasure Hunting - Spices - Bars and Barmen - Honey Farming - Cigars and Tobacco farming - Cape Town "Chamber of Horrors" - Origins of Biltong - Origins of Babotie - SA Museum's Taxidermist - Early Che...

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...dies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the younger Cabots -- Shipwreck and loss of the Cortereal Brothers -- Pinzon's adventures -- ... ...n which was the fountain of youth, Saxonburg, where the fates lured sailors to shipwreck, the islands of Happiness, and Fortunate islands. Then there ... ...handful to the myriads who slumber in its bosom. The earliest sea tales are of shipwreck; the earliest mariners made the ocean their winding sheet. Ev... ...time sailor believed in signs -- signs of the coming storm, of the approaching shipwreck. To him everything had a meaning. He availed himself of that ... ...erturned, for a recurrence of the accident is absolutely certain. He dreams of shipwreck and deserts, lest his dream come true; he is afraid of a ship... ... to have a bag of sea shells handy, or a shark's tooth as a protection against shipwreck; though a branch of coral is good for this, as well as to sto... ...of any denomination, he regards as extremely bad company on a voyage; Paul was shipwrecked thrice, and the experience of Jonah was anything but reassu... ...ng the coast of Europe when it rose to breathe. He doubts the old story of the shipwrecked mariners landing on the Kraken under the belief that it was... ...ed a large part of the Americana Continent and obtained an idea of its extent. SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF THE CORTEREAL BROTHERS. Three years after the fir...