Maritime Adventure

This action- and suspense-packed novel by John Winn Miller introduces Captain Jake Rogers, a hardened smuggler transporting contraband through the U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic in the beginning phases of World War II. He takes on cargo few other captains would be willing to carry—if the price is right. But after witnessing the oppression of Jews in Amsterdam, Rogers agrees to take on the most dangerous cargo he has ever transported.

Soon after the first maritime trade routes became operational, seafaring bandits appeared to prey upon the cargo, crews, and ships of others. Crimson Waters traces the history of piracy around the globe, stretching back from its roots in 2500 BCE, through the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and up to the modern-day pirates who still threaten boats along coastlines and on the open seas.

After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of history's most notorious shipwreck: Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did? To answer the question...

Wer sich unvorbereitet auf die britische Hauptstadt einlässt, den überfordert sie häufig, wie eine launische Diva, dem entgehen die geheimen und oft auch die offensichtlichen Reize einer gereiften Schönheit mit hohen Ansprüchen. Wir führen Sie vom Banker-Viertel Canary Wharf in den betagten aber neu erstrahlenden Kew Garden, in die versteckte Londoner Botanik, auf einen roten Doppeldeckerbus und zum Hunderennen.