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Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (6 hr.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster, and supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in the past.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
397 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Part adventure narrative, part love story, this unforgettable novel captures a crucial moment in the history of exploration, the mid-nineteenth-century romance with the mystery of the Arctic. Combining fact and fiction, Andrea Barrett focuses on Erasmus Darwin Wells, a scholar-naturalist accompanying the expedition of the Narwhal. Through his eyes we meet the various crew members and the expedition's blustery commander, obsessed with the search for...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal. Captain Barbossa kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth. In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman. Unless Jack can find a way out, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation.
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one. No man is an island, my butt, he thinks. I am that very man.... But the galaxy soon presents him with a string of odd, entertaining, and dangerous passengers, who become companions of every sort and stripe. The...
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