shipwrecks

The wreckage of over 6,000 ships litters the Great Lakes and in November of 1913, a 4-day storm played havoc with 12 ships sunk, 25 damaged, and almost 300 sailors and passengers drowned.

Seventeenth-century sailor Roberto della Griva, shipwrecked in the the South Pacific, takes refuge aboard a ship he believes to be abandoned, but is really inhabited by the brilliant Father Caspar, a man who has unlocked the secrets of navigation--a discovery destined to change the world.

During the final hours aboard the Titanic on her ill-fated voyage in 1912, Gavin and Karolina attempt to help others and by so doing learn something about themselves.

In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the Arctic seas, although there were lots of theories. Wealthy and prominent people funded expeditions and so it was that James Gordon Bennett, Jr., owner of The New York Herald, sent an official U.S. naval expedition to reach the Pole. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco. Leader George Washington De Long led a team of thirty-two men deep into uncharted waters. Two years later, after journeying north of the Bering Strait, they found themselves trapped in pack ice. The ship's hull was fatally breached, the Jeannette sank to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, and the men found themselves marooned on the ice cap nearly a thousand miles north of Siberia with three open boats and only the barest supplies. Thus began their long march across the frozen sea---an ordeal that ranks as one of the greatest struggles for survival in history.

Presents a fictionalized account of the sinking of the City of Benares, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War II as it secretly transported ninety British children to Canada.

"Titanic's passengers came from various places and walks of life, but all found themselves together on an ill fated ship. From luxurious staterooms to third class berths, experience what life was like aboard history's most famous ocean liner"--Provided by the publisher.

"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4 of cover.

A bored little rich boy is shipwrecked on a faraway island where he is happier than he has ever been before.