An Adventure In The Upper Sea
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An Adventure In The Upper Sea
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Author : Jack London
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
An Adventure In The Upper Sea written by Jack London and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with categories.
An Adventure In The Upper Sea A 15 Minute Tale Of Terror
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Author : Jack London
language : en
Publisher: Learning Island
Release Date :
An Adventure In The Upper Sea A 15 Minute Tale Of Terror written by Jack London and has been published by Learning Island this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Juvenile Fiction categories.
I am a retired captain of the upper sea. That is to say, when I was a younger man I was a balloonist. Naturally it is a hazardous profession, and naturally I have had many thrilling experiences. The most thrilling, or at least the most nerve-racking, is the one I am about to tell you. Before you can understand what happened, I must first explain a bit about the nature of the hot air balloon that is used for parachute jumping. If you have ever witnessed such a jump, you will remember that as soon as the parachute was cut loose the balloon turned upside down. It emptied itself of its smoke and heated air, flattened out and fell straight down, beating the parachute to the ground. Thus there is no chasing a big deserted bag for miles and miles across the country, saving much time, as well as trouble. This maneuver is accomplished by attaching a weight, at the end of a long rope, to the top of the balloon. The aeronaut, with his parachute and trapeze, hangs from the bottom of the balloon. His weight keeps it right side down. When he jumps, the weight attached to the top immediately drags the top down. The bottom, which is the open mouth, goes up, and the heated air pours out. The weight used for this purpose on the “Little Nassau” was a bag of sand. Imagine my horror, when I discovered a child hanging from the bag at 100 feet above the ground! Find out what happens to the child in this 15-minute adventure! Ages 8 and up. Educational Versions Include exercises designed to meet Common Core Standards. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books also work well as hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Adventure To The Top Of The Sea
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Author : Donald McMaster
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-07-12
Adventure To The Top Of The Sea written by Donald McMaster and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Adventure to the Top of the Sea explores the science of the water cycle through the journey of two water droplets. Unknown to their parents, two water droplets - Jess and Joe, decide to go on an exciting, but dangerous, adventure to the top of the sea. Follow them as they explore the sea and discover why their parents told them not to go to the top of the sea.
Stories Of Ships And The Sea
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Author : Jack London
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-12-07
Stories Of Ships And The Sea written by Jack London and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-07 with categories.
Stories of Ships and the Sea by Jack London - Standard Print Edition - SHORT STORY COLLECTION: CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN - THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI - THE WHALE TOOTH - MAUKI - "YAH! YAH! YAH!" - THE HEATHEN - THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS -THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN - THE SEED OF MCCOY - WHITE AND YELLOW - THE KING OF THE GREEKS - A RAID ON THE OYSTER PIRATES - THE SIEGE OF THE "LANCASHIRE QUEEN" - CHARLEY'S COUP - DEMETRIOS CONTOS - YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF - MAKE WESTING - TYPHOON OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN - THE LOST POACHER - THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO - TO REPEL BOARDERS - AN ADVENTURE IN THE UPPER SEA - IN YEDDO BAY - THE WATER BABY - THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"
7 Best Short Stories Sea Stories
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Author : Stephen Crane
language : en
Publisher: Tacet Books
Release Date : 2020-05-12
7 Best Short Stories Sea Stories written by Stephen Crane and has been published by Tacet Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with Fiction categories.
Sea fiction a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments. Nautical fiction usually includes distinctive themes, such as a focus on masculinity and heroism, investigations of social hierarchies, and the psychological struggles of the individual in the hostile environment of the sea. For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven great examples of these stories of salt water and adventure. Enjoy! - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane. - The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson. - The Sea Raiders by H. G. Wells. - Soaked in Seaweed: or Upset in the Ocean by Stephen Leacock. - A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe. - An Adventure in the Upper Sea by Jack London. - The Old Man of the Sea by W. W. Jacobs. For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
The House Under The Sea
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Author : Max Pemberton
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2021-01-10
The House Under The Sea written by Max Pemberton and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-10 with Fiction categories.
The House Under the Sea is an adventure tale set in the Pacific ocean and told by Jasper Begg, veteran sailor who has spent some fifteen years on the ocean. Jasper tells the story of the infamous Ken's Island, the most fearsome place he came across during his marine life._x000D_ Excerpt:_x000D_ "He indicated the distant reef, which seemed, as I bear witness, ablaze with lights. And not only the reef, mark you, but the sea about it, a cable's length, it may be, to the north and the south, shone like a pool of fire, yellow and golden, and sometimes with a rare and beautiful green light when the darkness deepened. Such a spectacle I shall never see again if I sail a thousand ships! That luscious green of the rolling seas, the spindrift tossed in crystals of light, foam running on the rocks, but foam like the water of jewels, a dazzling radiance—aye, a very carpet of quivering gold. Of this had they made the northern channel. How it was done, what cleverness worked it, it needed greater brains than mine to say. I was for all the world like a man struck dumb with the beauty of something which pleases and awes him in the same breath. We were just a little frightened group that stared open-mouthed upon a seeming miracle. If we regarded the things we saw with a seaman's reverence, let no one make complaint of that. The spectacle was one to awe any man; nor might we forget that those who appeared to live below the sea lived there, as Ruth Bellenden had told us, because the island was a death-trap. We were in the trap and none to show us the road out."
South Sea Adventure
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Author : Willard Price
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
South Sea Adventure written by Willard Price and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Adventure stories, English categories.
A South Sea Adventure
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Author : Willard Price
language : th
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988*
A South Sea Adventure written by Willard Price and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988* with categories.
An Adventure In The Upper Sea
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Author : Jack London
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-09-11
An Adventure In The Upper Sea written by Jack London and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with categories.
An Adventure in the Upper Sea is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire," "An Odyssey of the North," and "Love of Life." He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen," and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction expose The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. On July 12, 1897, London (age 21) and his sister's husband Captain Shepard sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush. This was the setting for some of his first successful stories. London's time in the Klondike, however, was detrimental to his health. Like so many other men who were malnourished in the goldfields, London developed scurvy. His gums became swollen, leading to the loss of his four front teeth. A constant gnawing pain affected his hip and leg muscles, and his face was stricken with marks that always reminded him of the struggles he faced in the Klondike. Father William Judge, "The Saint of Dawson," had a facility in Dawson that provided shelter, food and any available medicine to London and others. His struggles there inspired London's short story, "To Build a Fire" (1902, revised in 1908), which many critics assess as his best. His landlords in Dawson were mining engineers Marshall Latham Bond and Louis Whitford Bond, educated at Yale and Stanford. The brothers' father, Judge Hiram Bond, was a wealthy mining investor. The Bonds, especially Hiram, were active Republicans. Marshall Bond's diary mentions friendly sparring with London on political issues as a camp pastime. London left Oakland with a social conscience and socialist leanings; he returned to become an activist for socialism. He concluded that his only hope of escaping the work "trap" was to get an education and "sell his brains." He saw his writing as a business, his ticket out of poverty, and, he hoped, a means of beating the wealthy at their own game. On returning to California in 1898, London began working deliberately to get published, a struggle described in his novel, Martin Eden (serialized in 1908, published in 1909). His first published story since high school was "To the Man On Trail," which has frequently been collected in anthologies. When The Overland Monthly offered him only five dollars for it-and was slow paying-London came close to abandoning his writing career. In his words, "literally and literarily I was saved" when The Black Cat accepted his story "A Thousand Deaths," and paid him $40-the "first money I ever received for a story." London began his writing career just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, about $71,000 in today's currency. Among the works he sold to magazines was a short story known as either "Diable" (1902) or "Batard" (1904), in two editions of the same basic story; London received $141.25 for this story on May 27, 1902. In the text, a cruel French Canadian brutalizes his dog, and the dog retaliates and kills the man. London told some of his critics that man's actions are the main cause of the behavior of their animals, and he would show this in another story, The Call of the Wild.
The Wreck Of The Grosvenor
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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2020-12-17
The Wreck Of The Grosvenor written by William Clark Russell and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-17 with Fiction categories.
The Wreck of the Grosvenor is a gripping adventure novel that features the life on a trading ship during its journey across the Atlantic. As the "Grosvenor" makes headway there are rumblings among the crew with each passing day. Things rapidly reach boiling point, the mutiny takes place and the only one who seems to be able to rise to the occasion is the second officer Edward Royle, who will make an attempt to save the lives of the innocent from that chaos.