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Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Jessie Chisholm recounts her time spent living and working on a cruise ship while struggling with undiagnosed PTSD. This is a light hearted version of events, from bad bosses to romance. We follow her unique journey as she finds herself in the wrong life direction - leading her to sailing the Caribbean in turbulent circumstances. Enjoy.Disclaimer: This is a memoir based on only one person's distinctive experience. No names or company name are used throughout this series. People's nationalities are expressed and by no means are intended to offend anyone or sound racially insensitive.

In 1955, García Márquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is García Márquez’s account of that sailor’s ordeal.