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Fugitives
\" When the Japanese Imperial Forces invaded the Philippine
Islands at the onset of World War II, they quickly rounded up
Allied citizens on Luzon and imprisoned them as enemy aliens. These
captured civilians were treated inhumanely from the start, and news
of the atrocities committed by the enemy soon spread to the more
remote islands to the south. Hearing this, many of the expatriates
living there refused to surrender as their islands were occupied.
Fugitives, based on the memoir of Jordan A. Hamner, tells the true
story of a young civilian mining engineer trapped on the islands
during the Japanese invasion. Instead of surrendering, he and two
American co-workers volunteered their services to the Allied armed
forces engaged in the futile effort to stave off the enemy
onslaught. When the overwhelmed defenders surrendered to the
invaders, the three men fled farther into the disease-ridden
mountainous jungle. After nearly a year of nomadic wandering, they
found a derelict, twenty-one foot long lifeboat in a secluded
coastal bay. Hoping to sail to freedom in Australia, the trio
converted the craft into a sailboat, and called it the \"Or Else.\"
They would make it to Australia-or else. With only a National
Geographic magazine map of the Malacca Islands for navigation,
Hamner, his two compatriots, and two Filipino crewmen sailed their
unseaworthy craft fifteen hundred nautical miles over seas
controlled by the Japanese navy, touching land only briefly to
replenish meager rations or evade enemy vessels. After thirty
perilous days at sea, marked by nearly disastrous encounters with
hostile islanders, imminent starvation, and tropical storms, the
desperate fugitives reached the welcome shores of Australia.
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Ready, set, sail!
Follows a group of friends as they go sailing, explore an island, and return home to tell their tale.
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Suyun üstü
Seeking to reunite with her estranged family, Zeynep and her American husband Stephen travel from New York City to a small coastal town in Turkey. Together, along with her divorced parents and younger sister, they embark on a week-long sailing trip meant to be a last chance for Zeynep's father, Yusuf, a dissident journalist being prosecuted by the government, to reconnect with his daughters before prison. Once on open water, with blue skies and wind in their sails, hope springs eternal -- yet things may not be as they seem. As they await the result of Yusuf's appeal, tensions begin to rise, and when a young local man further disrupts the delicate family dynamics the trip takes a very unexpected turn.
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Goldenlocks and the three pirates
While pirates Papa, Mama, and Baby are away from their seaworthy sloop, Goldilocks comes aboard and makes herself useful.
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No country, this, for old men
J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) features two emblematic modernist representations of the aging artist, William Butler Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” and T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” which have not been given enough critical attention. Focusing on the Romantic notions underlying David Lurie’s worldview, current critical discourse, with the notable exception of Mike Marais, suggests that Lurie’s career follows the patterns of the Bildungsroman. Taking its cue from Marais, the present intertextual reading discusses Lurie’s “anti-Bildungsroman” in the light of the novel’s non-Romantic intertexts. It argues that they highlight, on the one hand, Lurie’s chiastic thought-processes, which are likely to bracket any progress or development. On the other hand, they reveal his (self)-ageism and the entrenched ageism of the literary tradition he relies on. Those, in turn, also give a pessimistic prognosis of his discovering a protective discourse or worldview which would allow him—and post-apartheid South Africa—to “age gracefully.” Likewise, they manifest yet another aspect of the novel’s unreliable narration, which—unlike Lurie’s sexism and racism—is rooted in so universal fears that, instead of alienating readers from his perspective, it makes his bleak vision of post-apartheid South Africa even more compelling. (AR)
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We the children
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
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Apocalypse
Fifteen-year-old Kit and his parents must ground their sinking sailboat on a rocky island inhabited by a primitive sect who believe the stranded family has been sent by the devil.
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