Devils on the Deep Blue Sea

Author: Kristoffer A. Garin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452287340
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
In this terrifically entertaining history, journalist Kristoffer A. Garin chronicles the cruise-ship industry, from its rise in the early sixties, to its explosion in the seventies with the hit show The Love Boat, to the current vicious consolidation wars and brazen tax dodges. Entrepreneurial genius and bare-knuckle capitalism mate with cultural kitsch as the cruise lines dodge U.S. tax, labor, and environmental laws to make unimaginable profits while bringing the world a new form of leisure. A colorful and compelling behind-the-scenes narrative, Devils on the Deep Blue Sea is a definitive look at the industry and its robber barons who created floating empires.

Devils on the Deep Blue Sea

Author: Kristoffer A. Garin
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Few businesses in America today are as colorful, lucrative, and innovative as cruise shipping, and this is the first book to give readers a compelling behind-the-scenes look into these floating empires and the modern-day robber barons who shaped them.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Author: Marcus Rediker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521379830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
This brilliant account of the maritime world of the eighteenth-century reconstructs in detail the social and cultural milieu of Anglo-American seafaring and piracy. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Author: April Genevieve Tucholke
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803738897
Category : Audiobooks
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious 17-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives. But when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.

The Devil and the Dark Water

Author: Stuart Turton
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728206030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652

Book Description
"Compulsively readable."—New York Times Book Review From Stuart Turton, author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, comes an extraordinary new locked-room murder mystery. A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634, and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Traveling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent. Among the other guests is Sara Wessel, a noblewoman with a secret. But no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock dies in the night. And then the passengers hear a terrible voice, whispering to them in the darkness, promising three unholy miracles, followed by a slaughter. First an impossible pursuit. Second an impossible theft. And third an impossible murder. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes? With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board. Shirley Jackson meets Sherlock Holmes in this chilling thriller of supernatural horror, occult suspicion, and paranormal mystery on the high seas.

First Dive to Shark Dive

Author: Peter Lourie
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781590780688
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
Describes how twelve-year-old Suzanna learned how to scuba dive and with her father, Peter swam with the sharks of Andros.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Author: Colin Freeman
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785787039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
'Captivating, a John le Carre-esque yarn' Telegraph 'A thoroughly good read' Michael Portillo, author of Portillo's Hidden History of Britain and presenter of Great British Railway Journeys 'A compelling story of courage, determination and skill' Terry Waite CBE, author of Taken on Trust The true story of a retired British army officer's private Somali-hostage rescue mission During the peak of the Somali piracy crisis, three ships - from Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan - were hijacked and then abandoned to their fate by their employers, who lacked the money to pay ransoms. All would still be there, were it not for Colonel John Steed, a retired British military attaché, who launched his own private mission to free them. At 65, Colonel Steed was hardly an ideal saviour. With no experience in hostage negotiations and no money behind him, he had to raise the ransom cash from scratch, running the operation from his spare room and ferrying million-dollar ransom payments around in the boot of his car. Drawing on first-hand interviews, former chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph, Colin Freeman, who has himself spent time held hostage by Somali pirates, takes readers on an inside track into the world of hostage negotiation and one man's heroic rescue mission.

Selling the Sea

Author: Bob Dickinson
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780471749189
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An insider's view of how the cruising business operates Selling the Sea offers a complete picture of the cruise line industry along with step-by-step coverage of how to effectively market the cruising experience. This updated Second Edition features new coverage of how technology has impacted the industry, new niche markets in cruising, and expanded material on shipbuilding and design. It also includes insightful interviews with today's captains, social directors, food and beverage managers, and cruise line executives who have hands-on experience at the day-to-day workings of a cruise ship.

Between the Spark and the Burn

Author: April Genevieve Tucholke
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803740476
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
This sequel to Tucholke's acclaimed debut "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" blends gothic romance, horror, and an eerie wintertime setting.

The Devil's Teeth

Author: Susan Casey
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466800518
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.