35 Miles from Shore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 35 Miles from Shore write by Emilio Corsetti. This book was released on 2008. 35 Miles from Shore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History.
Far from Shore
Far from Shore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Far from Shore write by Sophie Webb. This book was released on 2011. Far from Shore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From whales to plankton, scope out the marvels of deep sea creatures.
Scapegoat
Scapegoat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scapegoat write by Emilio Corsetti III. This book was released on 2016-08-01. Scapegoat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On April 4, 1979, a Boeing 727 with 82 passengers and a crew of 7 rolled over and plummeted from an altitude of 39,000 feet to within seconds of crashing were it not for the crew’s actions to save the plane. The cause of the unexplained dive was the subject of one of the longest NTSB investigations at that time. While the crew’s efforts to save TWA 841 were initially hailed as heroic, that all changed when safety inspectors found twenty-one minutes of the thirty-minute cockpit voice recorder tape blank. The captain of the flight, Harvey “Hoot” Gibson, subsequently came under suspicion for deliberately erasing the tape in an effort to hide incriminating evidence. The voice recorder was never evaluated for any deficiencies. From that moment on, the investigation was focused on the crew to the exclusion of all other evidence. It was an investigation based on rumors, innuendos, and speculation. Eventually the NTSB, despite sworn testimony to the contrary, blamed the crew for the incident by having improperly manipulated the controls; leading to the dive. This is the story of a NTSB investigation gone awry and one pilot’s decade-long battle to clear his name.
Ancient Shores
Ancient Shores - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Shores write by Jack McDevitt. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Ancient Shores available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up. And discovered a boat, made of a fiberglass-like material with an utterly impossible atomic number. What it was doing buried under a dozen feet of prairie soil two thousand miles from any ocean, no one knew. True, Tom Lasker's wheat field had once been on the shoreline of a great inland sea, but that was a long time ago -- ten thousand years ago. A return to science fiction on a grand scale, reminiscent of the best of Heinlein, Simak, and Clarke, Ancient Shores is the most ambitious and exciting SF triumph of the decade, a bold speculative adventure that does not shrink from the big questions -- and the big answers.
The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore
The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore write by Robert Finch. This book was released on 2017-05-09. The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer’s fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape. Those who have encountered Cape Cod—or merely dipped into an account of its rich history—know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: “No other place I know sears the heart with such a constant juxtaposition of pleasure and pain, of beauty being born and destroyed in the same moment.” And nowhere within its borders is this truth more vivid and dramatic than along the forty miles of Atlantic coast—what Finch has always known as the Outer Beach. The essays here represent nearly fifty years and a cumulative thousand miles of walking along the storied edge of the Cape’s legendary arm. Finch considers evidence of nature’s fury: shipwrecks, beached whales, towering natural edifices, ferocious seaside blizzards. And he ponders everyday human interactions conducted in its environment with equal curiosity, wit, and insight: taking a weeks-old puppy for his first beach walk; engaging in a nocturnal dance with one of the Cape’s fabled lighthouses; stumbling, unexpectedly, upon nude sunbathers; or even encountering out-of-towners hoping an Uber will fetch them from the other side of a remote dune field. Throughout these essays, Finch pays tribute to the Outer Beach’s impressive literary legacy, meditates on its often-tragic history, and explores the strange, mutable nature of time near the ocean. But lurking behind every experience and observation—both pivotal and quotidian—is the essential question that the beach beckons every one of its pilgrims to confront: How do we accept our brief existence here, caught between overwhelming beauty and merciless indifference? Finch’s affable voice, attentive eye, and stirring prose will be cherished by the Cape’s staunch lifers and erstwhile visitors alike, and strike a resounding chord with anyone who has been left breathless by the majestic, unrelenting beauty of the shore.
