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1) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a true story, seven prisoners escape a Siberian gulag and must make a 4,500-mile trek to freedom with little food or water.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster. In the Heart of the Sea—and now, its epic adaptation for the screen—will forever place the Essex tragedy in the American...