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Shipwrecked : A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade / by White, Jonathan W.,1979-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith's case as a lens, White takes readers into the murky underworld of New York City, where federal marshals plied the docks in lower Manhattan in search of evidence of slave trading. Once they suspected Oaksmith, federal authorities had him arrested and convicted, but in 1862 he escaped from jail and became a Confederate blockade-runner in Havana. The Lincoln Administration tried to have him kidnapped in violation of international law, but the attempt was foiled. Always claiming innocence, Oaksmith spent the next decade in exile until he received a presidential pardon from U.S. Grant, at which point he moved to North Carolina and became an anti-Klan politician. Through a remarkable, fast-paced story, this book will give readers a new perspective on slavery and shifting political alliances during the turbulent Civil War Era.Description based on print version record.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Ship captains; Blockade.; Escapes.;
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=30699232 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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The sea wolf / by London, Jack,1876-1916.;
A young art critic is forced to endure the wrath of Wolf Larsen, captain of the sealing schooner which rescues him after a shipwreck.
Subjects: Sealing; Sealing ships; Ship captains; Sailors; Allegories.; Sea stories.;
© 1981, c1904., Bantam Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Gilligan's Island. [videorecording] / by Schwartz, Sherwood.; Arnold, Jack,1916-1992.; Black, Walter.; Amateau, Rodney,1923-2003.; Denver, Bob.; Hale, Alan,1918-1990.; Backus, Jim.; Schafer, Natalie,1900-1991.; Tina Louise,1934-; Johnson, Russell,1924-; Wells, Dawn,1938-; Rawlings, Richard L.,1916-1992.; Bert, Malcolm.; Senter, John H.; Smith, Craig.; Capacchione, Frank,1911-1992.; Comstock, Frank.; Delmar, Frank,1909-2003.; CBS Television Network.; Gladasya Productions.; United Artists Television (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);
DVD, Region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.Bob Denver, Alan Hale, Jr. Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells.Director of photography, Richard L. Rawlings ; art directors, Malcolm C. Bert, John H. Senter, Craig Smith ; editors, Frank Capacchione ... [et al.] ; music, Frank Comstock ... [et al.] ; wardrobe, Frank Delmar.Originally broadcast by CBS 1964-1965.Not rated.The S.S. Minnow set sail on a three-hour tour. Along for the ride are the ship's captain, his first mate, an actress, a professor, a farm girl, a millionaire and his wife. They all become stranded on an uncharted South Pacific Island. Seven random people thrown together by fate, united in a search for a way off the island and back home again.
Subjects: Television comedies; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Ship captains; Castaways;
© [2004], Warner Home Video,
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Persuasion / by Austen, Jane,1775-1817.; Beer, Gillian.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]).Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend La.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Rejection (Psychology); Motherless families; Ship captains; Young women;
© 2003., Penguin Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Moby-Dick / by Melville, Herman,1819-1891.; Walcutt, Charles Child,1908-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [668]-670).
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Adventure stories.; Sea stories.; Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character); Whaling ships; Ship captains; Mentally ill; Whaling; Whales;
© 2003, c1967., Bantam Classic,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The heiress of Winterwood / by Ladd, Sarah E.,author.;
Darbury, England, 1814. Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's baby. She'll risk everything to keep her word -- even to the point of proposing to Graham, the child's father -- a sea captain she's never met.
Subjects: Heiresses; Ship captains; Infants;
© [2013], Thomas Nelson,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Stone of Tymora / by Salvatore, R. A.,1959-; Salvatore, Geno.;
Orphan Maimun boards the ship Sea Sprite, where he encounters Captain Deudermont, Drizzt Do'Urden, Wulfgar, Catti-brie, and the dwarf Bruenor, while eluding the evil demon Asbeel.
Subjects: Orphans; Adventure stories.;
© 2012, Wizards Of The Coast,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Great Lakes ghost ship / by Rand, Johnathan.;
In Cheboygan, Michigan, Emilee, Brian, and Gavin are invited to tour the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw. It will be a tour they will never forget. Soon they realize that an old legend about a ghostly sea captain who invites people onto his ship and never lets them go is more than just a legend.RL4.008-012.
Subjects: Zombies; Haunted places;
© c2005., Audiocraft Publishing,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Caine mutiny : a novel of World War II / by Wouk, Herman,1915-;
During WWII, on board a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny is a criminal act or an act of courage to save a ship from destruction at the hands of her captain.
Subjects: War stories.; Sea stories.; World War, 1939-1945;
© 2003, ©1951., Back Bay Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer : [electronic resource] : Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn series, book 1. by Twain, Mark.;
The orphan Tom Sawyer, raised by his aunt, is never out of trouble for long. A mischievous, charming boy (not to mention genius at escaping from trouble), Tom's adventures involve many unwitting bystanders. From one moment to the next, the boy could change into a pirate, or ship's captain - when he's not trying to win Becky Thatcher for a sweetheart, of course. Tom is also a friend of Twain's other beloved boy-hero, Huckleberry Finn.Grade 7 - Grade 12Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1274 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 389 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1273 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 384 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character); Runaway children; Boys; Fiction.; Classic Literature.;
© 2012., Duke Classics,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=0784865 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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