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Usborne True Stories
Sea Adventures
Part of the 'Usborne True Stories' series, this book contains thrilling stories of heroism, bravery and battling the odds to provide young readers with a truly compelling read.
160 pages, Paperback
First published May 30, 2008
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May 29, 2023
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This book is a collection of stories about amazing sea-faring adventures and feats of bravery and heroism. I liked that these were true stories and I really liked how the author wrote them in such a close way as to think he actually knew everyone who experienced these adventures. Unfortunately, there was a lack of diversity. Almost everyone in the stories was white and from Europe and very few women were the story's main character. I think it would have been better if more diversity of where these people came from. Otherwise, I thought it was a really interesting book of interesting stories and it was very short so it was easy to read.
This book is a collection of stories about amazing sea-faring adventures and feats of bravery and heroism. I liked that these were true stories and I really liked how the author wrote them in such a close way as to think he actually knew everyone who experienced these adventures. Unfortunately, there was a lack of diversity. Almost everyone in the stories was white and from Europe and very few women were the story's main character. I think it would have been better if more diversity of where these people came from. Otherwise, I thought it was a really interesting book of interesting stories and it was very short so it was easy to read.
October 12, 2021
70% out of 100%. 🛥🚤🛶⚓⛵🚢⛴🛳
August 29, 2024
Amazing stories on the high seas, some foolhardy.
January 6, 2026
It was a fun read with my boys although I thought it sometimes got much too graphic for children and thus had to skip over some of the gruesome descriptions.
November 18, 2014
True Sea Stories
By: Henry Brook
Review By: Joon Sung Oh
This book is about many different stories based on yachts, boats, and ships. Some of the stories are about ships at war, trips across oceans, a race around the globe that was from and to the U.K., journeys around the globe, but mostly about boats that capsize in the middle of the ocean. The stories are all very detailed. For instance, the book went in depth about what had caused the shipwrecks. Because of the detailed explanations, the stories are very interesting. Although the first page or so was not very interesting, the pages that come afterwards are very fun to read. For example, "On April 22, 1969, a tubby, dirty yacht lumbered into Falmouth docks. Officers from the Customs Authorities moored alongside and greeted the solitary, bearded sailor with the regulation question:
"Where from?"
"Falmouth," answered Knox-Johnson, smiling with delight. He had already been tipped off by friends at a waiting motor launch that the race was his. After 312 days at sea, and 48,000km (30,000 miles), the Suhaili tortoise had won the Golden a globe and - even more remarkable - was the only boat to finish the course. (21)" The first chapter, Race the Savage a Seas, is the my favorite out of the all of the chapters. The reason is, the story was about a yacht race with a Golden Globe and a huge money prize. The suspence of whether the main character, Knox-Johnson, would be able to finish was very intriguing. The mood was adventurous, and persuaded me to keep reading. In my opinion, I think that as the book progresses, in a way, the stories are ordered from the most interesting to the least interesting ones.
In conclusion, I recommend this book to people who like nonfiction books. They would find it a very fun and adventurous book to read. I definitely liked it, and would read it again whenever I have time to read!
By: Henry Brook
Review By: Joon Sung Oh
This book is about many different stories based on yachts, boats, and ships. Some of the stories are about ships at war, trips across oceans, a race around the globe that was from and to the U.K., journeys around the globe, but mostly about boats that capsize in the middle of the ocean. The stories are all very detailed. For instance, the book went in depth about what had caused the shipwrecks. Because of the detailed explanations, the stories are very interesting. Although the first page or so was not very interesting, the pages that come afterwards are very fun to read. For example, "On April 22, 1969, a tubby, dirty yacht lumbered into Falmouth docks. Officers from the Customs Authorities moored alongside and greeted the solitary, bearded sailor with the regulation question:
"Where from?"
"Falmouth," answered Knox-Johnson, smiling with delight. He had already been tipped off by friends at a waiting motor launch that the race was his. After 312 days at sea, and 48,000km (30,000 miles), the Suhaili tortoise had won the Golden a globe and - even more remarkable - was the only boat to finish the course. (21)" The first chapter, Race the Savage a Seas, is the my favorite out of the all of the chapters. The reason is, the story was about a yacht race with a Golden Globe and a huge money prize. The suspence of whether the main character, Knox-Johnson, would be able to finish was very intriguing. The mood was adventurous, and persuaded me to keep reading. In my opinion, I think that as the book progresses, in a way, the stories are ordered from the most interesting to the least interesting ones.
In conclusion, I recommend this book to people who like nonfiction books. They would find it a very fun and adventurous book to read. I definitely liked it, and would read it again whenever I have time to read!
October 20, 2009
True Sea Stories
By: Henry Brook
"The sea has always been a place of mystery, discovey and fear" Henrry Brook. True Sea Stories is a book about ten stories of adventures and what all this peoples voyayes look like and what they say. I liked it because in about each fifteen pages they give you a map to show you were the adventure is and were they might think they are heading.
My favorite story is Race the Savage Seas were the victime of the lost sea mistirious vastness is Robin Knox Johnson and the first ine is very impressive and it says he was all alone in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean whwn he noticed his boat was leaking. Does this make you want to read more? Well if you join this ten different characters in the mistery of each of the long days of their lifes los in the sea.
Discover what the sea can cause and what the people will do to survive...
By: Henry Brook
"The sea has always been a place of mystery, discovey and fear" Henrry Brook. True Sea Stories is a book about ten stories of adventures and what all this peoples voyayes look like and what they say. I liked it because in about each fifteen pages they give you a map to show you were the adventure is and were they might think they are heading.
My favorite story is Race the Savage Seas were the victime of the lost sea mistirious vastness is Robin Knox Johnson and the first ine is very impressive and it says he was all alone in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean whwn he noticed his boat was leaking. Does this make you want to read more? Well if you join this ten different characters in the mistery of each of the long days of their lifes los in the sea.
Discover what the sea can cause and what the people will do to survive...
July 13, 2009
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