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2) Shipwreck
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72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
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English
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Describes the history of shipwrecks, famous wrecks, causes, navigation and rescue techniques, and underwater archeology and the exploration of wrecks.
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2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This, the most complete chronicle of the Titanic ever created, is filled with survivor interviews, rare newsreel footage, and photos. It's an incomparable voyage into one of history's most unforgettable tragedies. This title has been repackaged. Presented in 3 feature-length programs, the set covers the creation, the disaster, the aftermath, and footage from modern-day explorations.
7) The Titanic
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
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English
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A history of the Titanic and a recounting of one of the worst maritime disasters in history.
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English
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In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex-the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history. In 1819, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton...
11) Lost liners
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223 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 x 30 cm
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English
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64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 x 26 cm
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English
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An exploration of two strikingly different shipwrecks. For those who know how to interpret its secrets, a sunken ship has many tales to tell. The stories of the lives of those aboard its last voyage are revealed in the objects scattered around the shipwreck. Then there are the stories of the many ocean creatures that have found a home inside the broken hull. Two shipwrecks, separated by two thousand miles and two centuries, share a common history...
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Reckless brides novel volume 5
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375 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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The rules of courtship are swept out to sea when a shipwreck offers a Reckless Bride a true taste of paradise.
16) Robinson Crusoe
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64 pages : color illustrations ; cm.
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English
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
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xx, 279 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"At the beginning of this book, a masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked and stranded on the coast of Africa. Brimful of self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm. Traveling through an increasingly phantasmagoric landscape in the company of a beggar and two roguish boys, Clarence is slowly stripped of his pretensions, until he is sold as a slave to the...
18) Shipwrecked
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1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Set sail for high-seas adventure in the classic Disney tradition as a boy named Hakon embarks on an extraordinary voyage!"--Container.
19) Titanic
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English
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Discusses the Titanic, including its design, how the ship sank, the passengers onboard, and why the ship's legacy lives on.
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Colección Cuadernos marginales volume 8
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88 pages : map ; 18 cm.
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Español
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