In the fierce winter of 1710, in a North American port, a boat ferried ten shipwreck survivors to the safety of shore. Fourteen Englishmen had taken refuge on Boon Isl&, a sparse 100-yard long stretch of rock, without food or adequate shelter, uncertain of when or if they would be rescued. They endured for 24 days. An escape attempt failed & four men died. Facing starvation, their captain, John Deane, gave the order to butcher & eat a member of the crew. Deane`s decision fended off starvation & sustained his crew until rescue. John Deane emerged an unlikely hero. But an alternative version of events began to circulate. The First Mate painted Deane as a murderous fraudster, tyrant & an enthusiastic consumer of human flesh. Centering on the scandal that defined him, The Shipwreck Cannibals tells the forgotten story of John Deane; criminal, mercenary, gentleman, diplomat & cannibal. ...

David Mearns has discovered some of the world`s most fascinating & elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama`s 16th century fleet, David has searched for & found dozens of sunken vessels in every ocean of the world. The Shipwreck Hunter is an account of David`s most intriguing & fascinating finds. It details both the meticulous research & the mid-ocean stamina & courage required to find a wreck miles beneath the sea, as well as the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Combining the derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a surgeon, in The Shipwreck Hunter David Mearns opens a porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean. ...

David Mearns has discovered some of the world`s most fascinating & elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wooden skeletons of Vasco da Gama`s 16th century fleet, David has searched for & found dozens of sunken vessels in every ocean of the world. The Shipwreck Hunter is an account of David`s most intriguing & fascinating finds. It details both the meticulous research & the mid-ocean stamina & courage required to find a wreck miles beneath the sea, as well as the moving human stories that lie behind each of these oceanic tragedies. Combining the derring-do of Indiana Jones with the precision of a surgeon, in The Shipwreck Hunter David Mearns opens a porthole into the shadowy depths of the ocean. ...

The Ship Log book

Includes:: a diary type format consisting of lined pages for recording ship data & activities.

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The Shiralee tells the story of the itinerant rural worker Macauley
- sometimes described as a 'swagman' or 'swaggie'
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” The Shi`is of Iraq” provides a comprehensive history of Iraq`s majority group & its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi`i society & politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi`ism, pointing to the strong Arab attributes of Iraqi Shi`ism. He contends that behind the power struggle in Iraq between Arab Sunnis & Shi`is there exist two sectarian groups that are quite similar. The tension fueling the sectarian problem between Sunnis & Shi`is is political rather than ethnic or cultural, & it reflects the competition of the two groups over the right to rule & to define the meaning of nationalism in Iraq. A new introduction brings this book into the new century & illuminates the role that Shi`is could play in postwar Iraq. ...

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia & the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed & catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein discovered information & connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors` beliefs now dominate our world
- & how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq
- this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed. ” Packed with thinking dynamite...a book to be read everywhere.” (John Berger). ” If you only read one non-fiction book this year, make it this one.” (Metro Books of the Year). ” There are a few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books.” (John Gray, Guardian). ”A brilliant book written with a perfectly distilled anger, channelled through hard fact. She has indeed surpassed No Logo.” (Independent).

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The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a ”human species” that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent ”environmental awareness, ” about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance & consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science & history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword & explores paths for living & acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch ...

'I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. & he was never the same after that.' There are books you can't stop reading, which keep you up all night. There are books which let us into the hidden parts of life & make them vividly real. There are books which, because of the sheer skill with which every word is chosen, linger in your mind for days. The Shock of the Fall is all of these books. The Shock of the Fall is an extraordinary portrait of one man's descent into mental illness. It is a brave & groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction. ...

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD 2013 `I`ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name`s Simon. I think you`re going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he`ll be dead. & he was never the same after that.` There are books you can`t stop reading, which keep you up all night. There are books which let us into the hidden parts of life & make them vividly real. There are books which, because of the sheer skill with which every word is chosen, linger in your mind for days. The Shock of the Fall is all of these books. The Shock of the Fall is an extraordinary portrait of one man`s descent into mental illness. It is a brave & groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction. ...