Reading Across the Pacific - 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 Reading Across the Pacific write by Robert Dixon. This book was released on 2010. Reading Across the Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading Across the Pacific is a study of literary and cultural engagement between the United States and Australia from a contemporary interdisciplinary perspective. The book examines the relations of the two countries, shifting the emphasis from the broad cultural patterns that are often compared, to the specific networks, interactions, and crossings that have characterised Australian literature in the United States and American literature in Australia. In the 21st century, both American and Australian literatures are experiencing new challenges to the very different paradigms of literary history and criticism each inherited from the 20th century. In response to these challenges, scholars of both literatures are seizing the opportunity to reassess and reconfigure the conceptual geography of national literary spaces as they are reformed by vectors that evade or exceed them, including the transnational, the local and the global. The essays in Reading Across the Pacific are divided into five sections: 'National literatures and transnationalism', 'Poetry and poetics', 'Literature and popular culture', 'The Cold War', and 'Publishing history and transpacific print cultures'.
Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1)
Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1) - 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 Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1) write by Tod Olson. This book was released on 2016-10-25. Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival. World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel.At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact, they will be left stranded without food or water hundreds of miles from civilization. Eight men. Three inflatable rafts. Sixty-eight million square miles of ocean. What will it take to make it back alive?
Across the Blue Pacific
Across the Blue Pacific - 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 Across the Blue Pacific write by Louise Borden. This book was released on 2006. Across the Blue Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A woman reminisces about her neighbor's son who was the object of a letter writing campaign by some fourth-graders when he went away to war in 1943.
Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm
Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm - 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 Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm write by Tony Farrington. This book was released on 1998-03-22. Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In June of 1994 a dangerous "bomb" storm caught dozens of cruising sailors by surprise as they voyaged north from New Zealand. This is the true story of how nine yachts struggled to survive the hurricane-like conditions. Boats were battered by fierce winds and capsized by seas towering well over 50 feet high. Equipment was ripped loose, and water penetrated every weak point. Masts collapsed, rudders broke, and sailors lost steering control when they needed it most. The crews coped as best they could with injury, fear, exhaustion, and illness. Their electronic calls for help were picked up by satellites and radio operators, who initiated a massive air and sea search. This is the story of heroic rescues, human endurance, and tragic loss.
War in the Pacific
War in the Pacific - 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 War in the Pacific write by Harry Gailey. This book was released on 2011-08-03. War in the Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historian Harry Gailey offers a fresh one-volume treatment of the vast Pacific theater in World War II, examining in detail the performance of Japanese and Allied naval, air, and land forces in every major military operation. The War in the Pacific begins with an examination of events leading up to World War II and compares the Japanese and American economies and societies, as well as the chief combatants' military doctrine, training, war plans, and equipment. The book then chronicles all significant actions - from the early Allied defeats in the Philippines, the East Indies, and New Guinea; through the gradual improvement of the Allied position in the Central and Southwest Pacific regions; to the final agonies of the Japanese people, whose leaders refused to admit defeat until the very end. Gailey gives detailed treatment to much that has been neglected or given only cursory mention in previous surveys. The reader thus gains an unparalleled overview of operations, as well as many fresh insights into the behind-the-scenes bickering between the Allies and the interservice squabbles that dogged MacArthur and Nimitz throughout the war. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
