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Their Backs to the Sea

2009 Poetry
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Release : 2009
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 610/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Their Backs to the Sea by : Margaret Randall

Download or read book Their Backs to the Sea written by Margaret Randall. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailing the natural and human history of Rapa Nui--more commonly known as Easter Island--this extraordinary collection of poems and photographs links together the ancient inhabitants of the most isolated, inhabited spot on earth with common concerns and hopes of the present. Illustrating the unique culture and ongoing struggle to survive against dramatic odds, this volume dramatically depicts the basic desires, misgivings, and challenges that human beings have long faced, regardless of time and place.

Their Backs Against the Sea

2017-06-27 History
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Release : 2017-06-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 728/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Their Backs Against the Sea by : Bill Sloan

Download or read book Their Backs Against the Sea written by Bill Sloan. This book was released on 2017-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, US Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants, screaming to his men, "Don't give them a damn inch!" When his body was recovered the next day, thirty dead enemies were piled around him. The Battle of Saipan lasted twenty-five hellish days in the summer of 1944, and the stakes couldn't have been higher. If Japan lost possession of the island, all hope for victory would be lost. For the Americans, its capture would result in secure air bases for the new B-29s that would put them within striking distance of the Japanese homeland. The outcome of the war in the Pacific lay in the balance. In this gritty, vivid narrative, award-winning author Bill Sloan fuses fresh interviews, oral and unit histories, and unpublished accounts to describe one of the war's bloodiest and most overlooked battles of the Pacific theater. Combining grunt's-view grit with big picture panorama (and one of the ugliest inter-service controversies of the war), Their Backs against the Sea is the definitive dramatic story of this epic battle -- and an inspiring chronicle of some of the greatest acts of valor in American military history.

The Girl the Sea Gave Back

2019-09-03 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2019-09-03
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 503/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Girl the Sea Gave Back by : Adrienne Young

Download or read book The Girl the Sea Gave Back written by Adrienne Young. This book was released on 2019-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Adrienne Young, New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deep, comes her new gut-wrenching epic The Girl the Sea Gave Back. For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse. For the first time in generations, the leaders of the Svell are divided. Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stones, she sets into motion a series of events that will not only change the landscape of the mainland forever but will give her something she believed she could never have again—a home.

Where the Sea Breaks Its Back

2003-06-01 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2003-06-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 735/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Where the Sea Breaks Its Back by : Corey Ford

Download or read book Where the Sea Breaks Its Back written by Corey Ford. This book was released on 2003-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whilhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in 1966, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as "among this country's greatest outdoor writing" by Field & Stream magazine, and today continues to enchant and enlighten the new generations of readers about this amazing and yet tragic expedition, and Georg Steller's significant discoveries as an early naturalist.

Come Back to the Sea

2013-10-15 Fiction
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Release : 2013-10-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 91X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Come Back to the Sea by : Jason Vanhee

Download or read book Come Back to the Sea written by Jason Vanhee. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Come Back to the Sea" is the story of Yukio, who hears the sea singing and sees disturbing visions of the water swallowing everything she knows. Is it all in her head? Or is the sea really coming for her? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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