Richard Mariner and his wife, Robin, are in the Indian Ocean on the trial voyage of a high-tech sailing boat designed, built, and owned by two Vietnam veterans, ‘Doc’ Weary and Sam Hood, when they encounter a burning freighter.
She has been...
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are...
Sea stories of American writers.
"Mr. French has assembled from late and early American days and from a various crew: he gives us the worried Pilgrims praying the gale to end, and he gives us the hard driving Gloucester fishermen praying it to...
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Auf die Frage, wie er denn solch ein vollendetes Meisterwerk wie den David habe schaffen können, soll Michelangelo geantwortet haben, er habe lediglich all den überflüssigen Marmor entfernen müssen. Die Frage nach...