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...The author takes the listener on a tour of various ships used in WW1. He discusses the boats and the seamen who occupy them and their encounters with the German U-boats. It is a collection of short stories, each one complete, about them all. The author was also an Olympic athlete; winning a bronze, silver and g...

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...This sequel to Bangs' A House-Boat on the Styx continues the thought-experiment of bringing various historical and fictional figures together, detailing the adventures of the ladies of Hades after they are kidnapped by pirates and the attempts of the Asso...

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...ins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx (in The Inferno, he was the ferryman of the river Acheron) being startled—and annoyed—by the arrival of a house boat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is actually to be appointed the boat's janitor. What follows are eleven more stories (for a total of twelve) which are s...

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...nging voice, and a facility with writing. His wartime service related in his diary is a series of triumphs over harrowing circumstances, bringing his boat back in spite of the best efforts of the Royal Navy to stop him.His one vulnerability is a young lady he meets on leave in Bruges, Belgium. Although she is the trophy girlfriend of a German colonel who could cause him mu...

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...Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with...

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...Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) , published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with...

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...Winds. Moral degradation has triggered a mass exodus. Those who were at great risk and in imminent danger have fled the atrocities of the regime by a boat called the Blue Moon to seek protection in a new land. Battling over the high seas through many violent tempests, their sea unworthy vessel, Blue Moon sailed for days until one evening it was spotted under the roaming be...

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...-era America, a rogue pilot risks all to bring down a gang of rocket pack raiders with "The Rocket Molly Syndicate." Captain Tony Lagarto's flying boat is hijacked by a lunatic Vinlander demanding transport to a place that doesn't exist in "Storming Shangri-La." Retro adventure awaits fans of dieselpunk, sci-fi, ray-gun gothic, and pulp magazines. Download if you dar...

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...A selection of stories by the author of The Red Badge of Courage, including The Open Boat, The Monster, The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, and others. A more thorough introduction to follow (Introduction by Greg W.)...

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...writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He describes the progression of this love from wave to wave and boat to boat. Leslie sailed during the Great Age of Sail before Industrialism had taken possession of Britain. Leslie comments on the early days of singlehanded small boat sailing: When I first began boating in the early fort...

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...s Geo's days of our permanent ready to write down everything must be marked in some way in the history of the places they go through with: foot, car, boat, plane and rarely does the thought and mind's eye. Will make his literary history, remember this about "Songs slum" is just a little note to the writer's personal struggle....

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...opts as a factual skeleton the historical puzzle of Francisco Pizarro's conquering the mightiest empire of South America in one evening with a single boat load of men. Solving the puzzle, he then fleshes in fiction a working model for the most important, yet most neglected of Orwell's features, the central secret of Oceania. Blaire's conclusion: Any society which is founde...

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...g Night Thought Whole Duty of Children Rain Pirate Story Foreign Lands Windy Nights Travel Singing Looking Forward A Good Play Where Go the Boats? Auntie’s Skirts The Land of Counterpane The Land of Nod My Shadow System A Good Boy Escape at Bedtime Marching Song The Cow Happy Thought The Wind Keepsake Mill Good and Bad Children Foreign Children The...

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... 28 Улица в Трявна A street in Tryavna 29 Циркусът на Поповото езеро в Пирин The cirque of Popovo lake in Pirin 30 Созополски лодки Sozopol boats 31 Площадът с часовниковата кула и школото в Трявна The central square in Tryavna with the clock tower and petko Slaveykov's school 32 Даскаловата къща в Трявна Dakskalova house in Tryavna 33 Езерото „Бъбрека“ в ...

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...ing. The alders bend upon the field their heads, heavy with sleep. Like a boat through the air, moon fawns into waters... I see peasants in the sky'... ...strongly struggling within a clock... Our souls sail, huddled in saving boats. Vinyard harvested by the sun and squeezed by lights. The wine drop... ...ses. I open a bottle full of gloomy longings. Winds are stil passing in a boat of air. It is raining so long that moss and lichens just grow upon t... ...em, like in this haiku: "Waves are hummingly coming, but neither a boat, nor a seagull". Vasile Moldovan (The Romanian Haiku Socie...

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...e going on a training exercise, you can take these other lads with you in the other three boats,” Axiana pointed to the Royal escort surrounding her... ...n for the worse. “Your Highness!” Commander Koronius shouted as loud as he could from his boat. “There is a storm brewing up ahead! We need to move ... ...There is a storm brewing up ahead! We need to move you and your daughter onto this larger boat for safety.” Axiana nodded her head in agreement. Off... ...hough Axiana had sailed through storms on the river before, she was the only adult in the boat. She now had her daughter to think about. She was not... ...s not going to risk her safety. At that moment, she heard a soldier on one of the larger boats shout, “Lookout!” Axiana turned to see a waterspout ... ...e of the deadly waterspouts appeared around them. Three of them were heading towards the boats carrying the Royal soldiers. The captains of the boat... ...ought against the powerful and sudden storm. He yelled at them to catch up to the Queen’s boat. They struggled frantically against the now ferocious... ...ntically against the now ferocious winds. They were falling fur- ther behind their Queen’s boat. Desperately Commander Koronius tried to force his ow... ...s before the full fury of the storm hit them. She would have to either wait for the other boats to catch up, or else she would have to turn her boat...

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...ard, down to the looping street that bordered on the water. The lake was silver struck and boats bobbed up and down abstracted waves. Moon, cleaved... ...s a fine moustache. I see great waters…" She yelps in fear and joy. "You are two lovers… A boat, he is on it … and the sea…" Eli suppresses yawns, ... ...and foreign – "Zehava has someone. She wants a divorce and to take the kids. I feel like a boatman who has lost his oars, the bitch. I go to Paris t...

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... by the nose a bull, that in a fright Had rushed aboard a crowded ferry- boat, And held him through his plunges till I he fell, Subdued by pain....

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...lity in countries overseas, it will not help. Just as the sailors on Jonah’s boat sensed that he was to blame for the storm that was about to drown... ...as to blame for the storm that was about to drown them, and threw him off the boat, today the nations of the world are sensing that we are to blame...

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...f modern painting in general. Yet, one of his more famous tableaux, Le Bateau (The Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Mo...