Will the Boat Sink the Water?

Author: Chen Guidi
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1586485393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern China. They are also, perhaps, the reason that China will not be able to make the great social and economic leap forward, because if it is to leap it must carry the 900 million with it. Chinese journalists Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi returned to Wu's home province of Anhui, one of China's poorest, to undertake a three-year survey of what had happened to the peasants there, asking the question: Have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors? The result is a brilliant narrative of life among the 900 million, and a vivid portrait of the petty dictators that run China's villages and counties and the consequences of their bullying despotism on the people they administer. Told principally through four dramatic narratives of particular Anhui people, Will the Boat Sink the Water? gives voice to the unheard masses and looks beneath the gloss of the new China to find the truth of daily life for its vast population of rural poor.

U-Boats off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight

Author: Jim Bunch
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467137677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.

Who Sank the Boat?

Author: Pamela Allen
Publisher: Picture Puffin
ISBN: 9780143501992
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 28

Book Description
Besides the sea, on Mr Peffer's place, there lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig, and a tiny little mouse. One warm sunny morning for no particular reason, they decided to go for a row in the bay . . .

Captain Kidd's Crew Experiments with Sinking and Floating

Author: Mark Weakland
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404871446
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25

Book Description
Introduces the concepts of floating and sinking by following a fictional captain on the high seas who wonders why his boat floats and his treasure sinks.

Sink Or Float?

Author: Lynn Salem
Publisher: Seedling Publications
ISBN: 9780845443910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8

Book Description
Readers will be encouraged to actively test items to see if they sink or float.

Deep Water

Author: Watt Key
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
ISBN: 0374306540
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, 12-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.

Adrift

Author: Steven Callahan
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547526563
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.

What Floats? What Sinks?

Author: Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher: Lerner Publications TM
ISBN: 1512465135
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! A rock sinks in the water. A hot air balloon floats in the air. Many objects float and sink. But what makes them move this way? And how do people use floating and sinking in their lives? Read this book to find out! Learn all about matter, energy, and forces in the Exploring Physical Science series—part of the Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life!

Maiden Voyage

Author: Tania Aebi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476711607
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description
What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love. Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere—until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she chose the sailboat, she’d have to sail around the world—alone. She chose the boat, and for the next two and a half years and 27,000 miles, it was her home. With only her cat as companion, she discovered the wondrous beauties of the Great Barrier Reef and the death-dealing horrors of the Red Sea. She suffered through a terrifying collision with a tanker in the Mediterranean and a lightning storm off the coast of Gibraltar. And, ultimately, what began with the sheer desire for adventure turned into a spiritual quest as Tania came to terms with her troubled family life, fell in love for the first time, and—most of all—confronted her own needs, desires, dreams, and goals…

Shantyboat

Author: Harlan Hubbard
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813113593
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In their small river craft, the Hubbards became one with the flowing river and its changing weathers. This book mirrors a life that is simple and independent, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.