Russell, Rachel, and Rachael discuss our August challenge, books set by the beach or sea, and regrettably did not prepare any sea shanties.
Books we discuss include:
- “A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks” by David Gibbins
- “The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found” by Martin W. Sandler
- “Pirate Latitudes” by Michael Crichton
- “The Wreck of the Medusa” by Jonathan Miles
- “The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier” by Ian Urbina
- “Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter” by Lizzie Pook
- “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway
- “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck
- “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Peter & the Starcatchers” by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
- “Unbroken: An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive” by Laura Hillenbrand
- “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald Dahl
- “Earthsea Cycle” series by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “The Sea Wolf” by Jack London
- “And the Ocean Was Our Sky” by Patrick Ness
- “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel
- “Whalefall” by Daniel Kraus
- “Goosebumps: Deep Trouble” by R.L Stine
- “Fins: A Shark Incorporated Novel” by Randy Wayne White
- “Refugee” by Alan Gratz
- “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen
- Russell’s Sidetrack - “Woods Runner” by Gary Paulsen
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