Ship Fever
Author | : Andrea Barrett |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1996-11-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393316009 |
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Author | : Andrea Barrett |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1996-11-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393316009 |
1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Author | : Andrea Barrett |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393038538 |
The love of science, the science of love--and the struggle to reconcile the two--are the subjects of this remarkable collection, stories and a novella. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, these stories move between past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams.
Author | : Michael Smith |
Publisher | : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0385547439 |
The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway—COVID-19—days before the world shut down in March 2020. This riveting narrative thriller takes readers behind the scenes with passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead. In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hot spots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, loaded with 1,200 passengers—Americans, Europeans and South Americans, plus 600 crew. Most passengers were over the age of sixty-five. There was concern about the virus on the news, and it had already killed and sickened passengers on other Holland America ships. But that was oceans away, and escaping to sea at the ends of the earth for a few weeks seemed like it might be a good option. The cruise line had said the voyage (three weeks around the South American coastline to see some of the world’s most stunning natural wonders and ancient ruins) would carry on as scheduled, with no refunds. And it would be safe. Among the travelers there is a retired American school superintendent on a dream vacation with his wife of fifty-six years, on a personal quest to see Machu Picchu. There is an Argentine psychologist taking this trip to celebrate her sixty-fourth birthday with her husband, though she finds herself fretting in her cabin on day one, trying to dismiss her fears of what she’s hearing on the news. There is an Indonesian laundry manager who's been toiling on Holland America cruise ships for thirty years, sending his monthly paycheck to his family back home. Within days, people aboard Zaandam begin to fall sick. The world’s ports shut down. Zaandam becomes a top story on the news and is denied safe harbor everywhere. With only two doctors aboard and few medical supplies to test for or treat COVID-19, and with dwindling food and water, the ship wanders the oceans on an unthinkable journey.
Author | : Robert Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1783 |
Genre | : Travel |
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Author | : Henry Grafton Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1850 |
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Author | : Andrew COMBE |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Typhus fever |
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Author | : Andrea Barrett |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2003-02-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393323579 |
Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.
Author | : Billy G. Smith |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300194528 |
How a ship of British idealists sailed to Africa to end the slave trade but instead ignited a yellow fever pandemic
Author | : Andrea Barrett |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2008-10-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393067289 |
"Turbulent and dramatic, full of longing and death and lust, the yearning to cover one’s own life and way in the world." —David Mehegan, Boston Globe An elegant and astute tale of desire and betrayal, science and medicine, from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell) author of Ship Fever, winner of the National Book Award. In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war—but in the town of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. From within their isolated community, they grapple with some of the most thrilling scientific discoveries of their time—X-ray technology, chemical and biological weapons, changing theories of atomic structure—and their limitations. Prisoners of routine, they take solace in gossip, rumor, and, sometimes, secret attachments. When the well-meaning efforts of one enterprising patient lead instead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice. With The Air We Breathe, Andrea Barrett has crafted a "majestic, breathtaking, [and] thrilling" (San Diego Union-Tribune) novel that brilliantly illuminates the inescapable heartbreak of war.
Author | : Charles W. Johnson |
Publisher | : ForeEdge from University Press of New England |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611686040 |
In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big questionÑwas the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an ocean covered with ice? No one knew, for the ice had kept its secret well; ships trying to penetrate it all failed, often catastrophically. NorwayÕs charismatic scientist-explorer Fridtjof Nansen, convinced that it was a frozen ocean, intended to prove it in a novel if risky way: by building a ship capable of withstanding the ice, joining others on an expedition, then drifting wherever it took them, on a relentless one-way journey into discovery and fame . . . or oblivion. Ice Ship is the story of that extraordinary ship, the Fram, from conception to construction, through twenty years of three epic expeditions, to its final resting place as a museum. It is also the story of the extraordinary men who steered the Fram over the course of 84,000 miles: on a three-year, ice-bound drift, finding out what the Arctic really was; in a remarkable four-year exploration of unmapped lands in the vast Canadian Arctic; and on a twoÐyear voyage to Antarctica, where another famous Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, claimed the South Pole. Ice Ship will appeal to all those fascinated with polar exploration, maritime adventure, and wooden ships, and will captivate readers of such books as The Endurance, In the Heart of the Sea, and The Last Place on Earth. With more than 100 original photographs, the book brings the Fram to life and light.