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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
3) Being Clem
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
1944. Clem's father is away, serving as a sailor in World War II. When the family receives news that his father has died in the infamous Port Chicago explosion in San Francisco, everything begins to fall apart. Clem's mother is forced to work long, tough hours as a maid for a wealthy white family. The obstacles...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
5) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
6) The Bounty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A celebrated travel writer tells the story of the tiny, fascinating island of Pitcairn, home of precisely 49 people, all descendants of the original founders of the island, the famous mutineers who were the basis for the novels and movie, The Mutiny On the Bounty. The public has been fascinated by Pitcairn since tales of it first started spreading in the early 1900s. But beyond the fictional Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy, there's never been a true...
Author
Series
Kydd novels volume 4
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gives voice, as a teenager returned to the Christian family in England, to the half-Tahitian daughter of the British ship Bounty's second-in-command and mutineer, Fletcher Christian.
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