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pickIn 1982, despite an absence of boating experience, Jonathan Raban decided to sail around England. Here he presents his travels on sea and stops on land in a snapshot from a different era. He also does a little random noodling. I enjoyed it.
Today I‘ve got two ocean survival stories to recommend.
Gary Paulson is most famous for Hatchet, and The Voyage of the Frog is another story of a boy on his own. David takes a sailboat out and is caught by a storm that carries him far off course.
In Deep Water, Julie and her dad run a scuba diving business and she takes two clients down off the coast of Alabama. When they return to the surface, the boat is gone.
#MiddleGrade #MiddleGradeMonday
pickA year of beach walking and observing, with detailed information on the findings. Some of it historical and some of it anecdotal. Lots of natural history and marine biology centred writing which was new to me.
pick5/5. Based on the shipwreck of the Essex. A whaler based out of Nantucket, it was sunk when an angry sperm whale rammed it. This story was the inspiration for Moby Dick. The portrayal of cannibalism the crew was forced to resort to in order to stay alive is horrifying. (Side note-apparently cannibalism became so common after shipwrecks that when survivors were rescued they were quick to say when they hadn‘t resorted to cannibalism 😳)
#FirstLineFridays
Like a giant bird of prey, the whaleship moved lazily up the western coast of South America, zigging and zagging across a living sea of oil.
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