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Signs of life

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Description: A novel on a group of people who operate a shipping business dealing in hazardous medical waste. The job entails illegal dumping and puts them in touch with the underworld of genetic engineering.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1997.
Call number: 660924
Creator: Harrison, M. John (1945-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0312156561; 9780312156565
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the Kim Stanley Robinson Library. With presentatrion inscription to Kim Stanley Robinson from the author, dated 06.10.97.
Dimensions: 22 cm
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U.S.S. Mudskipper : the submarine that wrecked a train : a novel

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"Commander Tolliver of the U.S. Submarine Mudskipper was cruising off the coast of Hokkaido, the northernmost Japanese island, when he first spied the train on its daily run along the shore line. The Mudskipper had previously taken a tremendous toll of enemy shipping; now for weeks its periscope had searched the horizon in vain. Perhaps the daily freight and passenger train might take the place of a tramp steamer or a destroyer. So Commander Tolliver made plans to wreck the Japanese train. What follows is a story packed with mounting suspense, filled with the throat-gripping tensions of men on a dangerous undersea mission - a realistic novel that in its climax fairly explodes before the reader's eyes"--Dust jacket flap.

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John M. Cavarly Papers

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This collection contains 47 items related to John M. Cavarly, a ship's captain, who worked for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, from 1864 to 1890. Documents include some correspondence, scrapbooks, and ship's log. As well, the collection also includes the manuscript of the 1961 novel Annie's Captain, about Cavarly and his wife written by their granddaughter Kathryn Hulme. There are ten pieces of correspondence, six of which relate to particular voyages and four are letters from Cavalry to his daughter. The Scrapbook Pages are also filled with correspondence relating to Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The other scrapbooks contain clippings from newspapers regarding voyages, ships, and amusing anecdotes. The Bound Scrapbook used to be a ship's log and there are pages that are not covered in newspaper clippings. The photographs include one photograph of the John M. Cavarly, a photograph of the steamer "City of New York," and a photograph of her officers, including Captain Cavarly. The manuscript, Annie's Captain, is a work of fiction about the lives of John M. Cavarly, his wife and their family. Subjects in the collection include: CSA Florida; John Newland Maffitt; United States mail steamers; Pacific Mail Steamship Company; sailing anecdotes; fiction of Ship captains' spouses; fiction of ship captains; steamboats and steamboat disasters; San Francisco Steamboat lines; Steamboat lines to China; Steamboat lines of the Pacific Ocean; United States Civil War fiction; United States Civil War naval operations.

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