Douglas Robertson spent his first 16 years as a farmer's son in England before sailing with his family on their 43-foot schooner Lucette.
After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific.
Sea Survival: A Manual
This book combines it's message with simple and easy to remember acronyms while telling the miraculous story of Iny's voyage from her dark and life threatening upbringing in Baghdad to a meaningful life of freedom.
When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature ...
Depicts the activities and dedication of the young Munich University students who were executed for printing pamphlets attacking Nazi rule
This lavishly-illustrated book, first published in 1984, portrays the life and history of two Jerban Jewish villages and explores the paradoxes of their continuity.
This moving novel imagines the story of this remarkable woman's decision to defy society's expectations, and the joy she drew from her extraordinary relationship with the natural world.
The Last of the Sailing Coasters: Reminiscences and Observations of the Days in the Severn Trows, Coasting Ketches, and Schooners
Tracing the conjunction of Blackness with the biological fiction of race, he theorizes Black reason as the collection of discourses and practices that equated Blackness with the nonhuman in order to uphold forms of oppression.
"There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancient Regime examines the paradox of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution.