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1) Lord Jim
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English
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Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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English
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"In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially...
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Service in the Merchant Marine means saying goodbye - keep the home fires burning. It is 'loose lips sink ships,' a convoy tiptoeing through a dead-thick fog. It is the ear splitting clatter of ack-acks and cries of 'aircraft sighted all hands.' It is fear, bravery and just doing a job. It is the lifeblood of democracy's arsenal.
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xiv, 391 pages : illustrations, 1 color map ; 24 cm
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English
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"On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No one could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications, a sophisticated navigation system, and cutting-edge weather forecasting could suddenly vanish--until now. Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts,...
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xiv, 427 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business -- one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea back home to New York could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological...
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xi, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars. In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers,...
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