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9781574093155, titled "Titanic Survivor: Special Centennial Edition" | Cen spl up edition (Sheridan House Inc, April 14, 2012), cover price $17.95
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9781588382825 | John F Blair Pub, January 1, 2012, cover price $21.95
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9780743238373, titled "All Brave Sailors: The Sinking of the Anglo Saxon, August 21, 1940" | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Describes the August 1940 attack on, and sinking of, the Anglo Saxon, a British merchant ship, by the Widder, a German surface raider disguised as a merchant ship from a neutral country, and the ordeal of the survivors of the doomed ship.
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9780743238380 | Simon & Schuster, July 27, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the darkness before moonrise on the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast on August 21, 1940, the night erupted in a fusillade of bullets and shells.
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9780802144256 | Grove Pr, October 20, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Ship of Gold tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, two hundred miles off the Carolina coast in September 1857.
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Describes the events that led to the abandonment of thirty-two whaleships in the Arctic Ocean in the winter of 1871.
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9781599350431 | Morgan Reynolds Pub, August 1, 2007, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Describes the events that led to the abandonment of thirty-two whaleships in the Arctic Ocean in the winter of 1871.
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9780870335730 | Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub, February 28, 2006, cover price $35.00
9780870334443 | Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub, September 1, 1993, cover price $30.00
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9780764324352 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, February 2, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The One-Man Pneumatic Life Raft was the unheralded and almost unknown savior of uncounted downed airmen of World War II and the early Korean War.
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A collection of fifteen fictional stories of survival includes the work of Jack London, John Wesley Powell, Stephen Crane, Mary Reid, Daniel Defoe, Victor Hugo, and Lamar Underwood, among others. Original.
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9781592282364 | Lyons Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of fifteen fictional stories of survival includes the work of Jack London, John Wesley Powell, Stephen Crane, Mary Reid, Daniel Defoe, Victor Hugo, and Lamar Underwood, among others.
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9781565123472 | 1 edition (Algonquin Books, May 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Recounts the story of the whaleship Sharon, whose captain was murdered by a trio of mutineers and whose remaining crew members died over the course of three subsequent years under mysterious circumstances.
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9781565124356 | Algonquin Books, January 4, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical murder mystery" (USA Today).
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9781565117631 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, April 28, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Recounts the story of the whaleship Sharon, whose captain was murdered by a trio of mutineers and whose remaining crew members died over the course of three subsequent years under mysterious circumstances.
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9781565117624 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, May 1, 2003), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Recounts the story of the whaleship Sharon, whose captain was murdered by a trio of mutineers and whose remaining crew members died over the course of three subsequent years under mysterious circumstances.
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9780071388849 | Intl Marine Pub Co, June 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Stories of Sailors in the Clutch of the SeaEdited by Tom Lochhaas Treacherous Waters is a collection of riveting, real life stories of adventure, loss, and survival at sea.
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9780786244591 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Documents the mutiny aboard the whaler Globe, which was organized by twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, his plan to build an island kingdom, and the rescue voyage of the Navy schooner Dolphin.
9780316299237 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Documents the mutiny aboard the whaler Globe, which was organized by twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, his plan to build an island kingdom, and the rescue voyage of the Navy schooner Dolphin.
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9780316738675 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, June 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Documents the 1825 mutiny aboard the whaler Globe, which was masterminded by Samuel Comstock, his plan to build an island kingdom, and the rescue voyage of the Navy schooner Dolphin.
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9780938665830, titled "Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare" | 2 revised edition (Fineedge.Com Llc, January 1, 2003), cover price $18.95
9780070179684, titled "Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare" | McGraw-Hill, July 1, 1994, cover price $22.50
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9781585747016 | Lyons Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Twenty-five amazing stories of rescue chronicle a series of true adventure stories, from mountain rescues in the Colorado rockies to the action depicted in Black Hawk Down.
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9780896217195 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1986), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author recalls his seventy-six day ordeal adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in a five foot inflatable raft, after the sinking of his sailboat, recounting his problems surviving the weather, shark attacks, raft leaks, and food and water shortages
9780395382066 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1986, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: The author recalls his seventy-six-day ordeal adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in a five-foot inflatable raft after the sinking of his sailboat, recounting his problems surviving the weather, shark attacks, a leaking raft, and, above all, the lack of food and
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9780618257324 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, October 17, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author recalls his seventy-six day ordeal adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in a five foot inflatable raft, after the sinking of his sailboat, recounting his problems surviving the weather, shark attacks, raft leaks, and food and water shortages.
9780345410153, titled "Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea" | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: After his small sailboat sank in the Atlantic, Steve Callahan spent 76 days in a five-foot inflatable raft, drifting 1800 miles before his rescue.
9780345340832 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 1991), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The author recalls his seventy-six day ordeal adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in a five foot inflatable raft, after the sinking of his sailboat, recounting his problems surviving the weather, shark attacks, raft leaks, and food and water shortages
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9780547526560 | Houghton Mifflin, October 17, 2002, cover price $14.95
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9780606040112 | Demco Media, February 1, 1991, cover price $21.29 | About this edition: The author recalls his seventy-six day ordeal adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in a five foot inflatable raft, after the sinking of his sailboat, recounting his problems surviving the weather, shark attacks, raft leaks, and food and water shortages
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9780613572996, titled "Adrift Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea" | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: The author recalls his seventy-six day ordeal adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in a five foot inflatable raft, after the sinking of his sailboat, recounting his problems surviving the weather, shark attacks, raft leaks, and food and water shortages.
9780833506504 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.85 | About this edition: A NEW YORK TIMES besteller, this true story tells the riveting, first-hand account of the only man in history to have survived more than a month alone at sea,fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out.
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9780896219960 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1990), cover price $18.95
9780453007030 | New Amer Library, October 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Five Costa Rican fishermen survive almost five months adrift at sea, in a story of superhuman endurance
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9781892216410, titled "Five Against the Sea: A True Story of Courage & Survival" | Bristol Fashion Pub Co, August 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: It was January 19, 1988.
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9780393041637 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Documents the successful efforts of Samuel Comstock to organize a mutiny aboard the whaler Globe and kill its officers, his plan to build an island kingdom, and his downfall at the hands of fellow mutineers and innocent crewmen.
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9780142002919 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: With horrors and heroes, murder and mayhem, Mutiny on the Globe brings to life an amazing chapter in seafaring history.
9780393335682 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 30, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9781560253679 | Da Capo Pr, December 26, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Filled with moral, physical, and emotional courage, a collection of riveting narratives of people who find themselves in desperate and dire survival situations features contributions from such writers as Dougal Robertson, William Laird McKinlet, James D.
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9781885408815 | Listen & Live Audio, May 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of narratives of people who find themselves in desperate and dire survival situations features contributions from such writers as Dougal Robertson, William Laird McKinlet, James D.
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9781581602883 | Paladin Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $50.00
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9781574091427 | Sheridan House Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Peter Lickfold and his wife Tina decided to follow their dream of buying a boat and sailing from their home in South Africa to the Salomon Island in the Indian Ocean.
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9781574091267 | Sheridan House Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $16.50 | About this edition: The son and companion of the famous Captain Joshus Slocum presents the harrowing stories of castaway boats and the adventures of the survivors.
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9780618127276 | Mariner Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: One late autumn day in 1982, the fifty-eight-foot yacht TRASHMAN set sail on a routine trip from Annapolis to Florida, with Deborah Scaling and four others aboard.
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Draws on contemporary accounts to describe the ordeal of three shipwreck survivors who resorted to cannibalism to survive while adrift at sea, but were arrested and tried for murder after their rescue
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9780471383895 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 15, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Draws on contemporary accounts to describe the ordeal of three shipwreck survivors who resorted to cannibalism to survive while adrift at sea, but were arrested and tried for murder after their rescue
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9780471399773 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 19, 2001, cover price $19.95
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9780874221930 | Washington State Univ Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $35.00
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9780874221947 | Washington State Univ Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $18.95
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9780140437966 | Penguin Classics, May 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex, thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific, was rammed by an angry sperm whale.
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9780820115207 | Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint, November 1, 1999, cover price $55.00
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