sailors

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sailors

Billy Budd

1972
Narrates the hatred of petty officer Claggart for Billy, a handsome Spanish sailor. Billy strikes and kills Claggart, and is condemned by Captain Vere even though the latter senses Billy's spiritual innocence.

Honor bound

a gay American fights for the right to serve his country
1992
Joe Steffan tells about his career at the Naval Academy, his public humiliation, and his fight for justice.

Typee

a peep at Polynesian life
1972

Navy

2013
The U.S. Navy is the branch of the military responsible for operations at sea. The Navy also uses aircraft in its operations, and it often works together with the Marine Corps.

Born in the breezes

the seafaring life of Joshua Slocum
2001
An illustrated biography of a nineteenth-century Canadian captain, who loved sailing and the sea.

The annotated ancient mariner

The rime of the ancient mariner
2003
An annotated version of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" that includes an introduction, brief biography of Coleridge, explanatory notes, and summaries of the major critical attitudes toward the poem.

Billy Budd

1992
Narrates the hatred of petty officer Claggart for Billy, a handsome Spanish sailor. Billy strikes and kills Claggart, and is condemned by Captain Vere even though the latter senses Billy's spiritual innocence.

Three years on the ocean

1980
An account of 52-year-old Joshua Slocum's adventurous 46,000-mile trip around the world in a 36-foot sailboat.

Battleship Bismarck

a survivor's story
1980
A chronicle of the German battleship's history until it was sunk in 1941.

The Hardy boys, undercover brothers

2006
Frank and Joe go undercover to discover why teen seamen on an old fishing boat keep going missing.

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