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Lisa Taddeo • Animal: A Novel
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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The Sultana, or ‘queen’, of Patani made a deep impression on Floris. ‘A comely oulde woman nowe about three score yeares…she was tall of person and full of majestie.’ She was also ‘a good sport’, thought nothing of hunting wild buffalo in the forest, and was a great patron of the arts. Her dance troupe was the best Floris had ever seen; and when by
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When her industrialist husband died and her father bequeathed her his holdings in the area, Tuttle, then forty-one, performed an uncommon act of bravery: she pulled up stakes in Ohio and moved to Fort Dallas, intending from the outset to carve a city from the wilderness.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
The monks arrived as early as the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., having sailed and rowed from the west coast of Ireland. Setting out in small, open boats called curraghs, built from cowhide stretched over light wicker frames, they crossed one of the most treacherous stretches of ocean in the world without knowing what, if anything, they’d find on
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