Almost thirty and recently divorced, Randall Williams began re-creating his life - by selling virtually everything he owned and moving into a 20' sailboat that he bought for eight hundred dollars. His plan: sail his little floating home single-handedly from Scandinavia to North Africa, despite having practically no previous sailing experience.
Between Cinema and Television Paul Julian Smith ... Body Trauma TV, in which Jason Jacobs argues that shows such as ER corresponded to 'the growing medicalization of everyday life [with its] body-centred fears and fascinations' (147).
In this “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today), John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as ...
The Sea Inside Me
That's when I first heard the bell. I looked at Sadie, puzzled. ... Sadie set off down the street toward the sound of the bell. “Wait for me! ... I was glad when Sadie turned down H Street, toward the plank sidewalks farther down.
In Selling the Sea, Second Edition, Bob Dickinson—the marketing genius most directly responsible for making the business what it is today—examines all aspects of the modern cruise industry, where it started, how it got to where it is ...
Pirate State explores the links between the pirates, global financiers, and extremists who control southern Somalia and whose influence extends across the Gulf of Aden into Yemen and connects to extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
It's easy to get lost in the debut work and world of poetry that shuns conventions and embraces avant-garde mixed media art, surreal orthography, and compelling memories depicting the ghosts that live in every human.
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie’s classic children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver’s Travels, Alice in ...
Peep under waves and behind coral to discover hungry sharks, shy sea dragons and lots more hiding behind the flaps in this wonderful first book about the sea.
Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).