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English
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"International waters form a largely unregulated realm traversed by more than 40,000 ships carrying all manner of cargo. These largely independent vessels of industry are associated with myriad concerns: pollution, dangerously overburdened infrastructures, maritime terrorism and the threat of modern-day piracy. The crews live hard, facing grim working conditions and even death. Chaotic, radically free, the oceans provide a telling glimpse into global...
9) Lord Jim
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat,...
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Explores the challenges and rewards of attending the United States Merchant Marine Academy in King's Point, New York, where individuals are trained to become Merchant Marine officers.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and development of an American literary icon. Written seven years before The Town and The City officially...
Author
Series
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society volume 2nd ser., no. 112
Publisher
Published by the Hakluyt Society at the University Press
Pub. Date
1959
Language
English