The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk.. The wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes. Publication date 1957-01-01 Publisher Knopf Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor.
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Summary. The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking. But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved. As Hammond Innes' classic tale moves from desperate struggles on the sea to a nail.
The Wreck Of The Mary Deare by Hammond Innes
The crew of the small craft leaps into action, straining the Sea Witch 's sails to the limit, barely getting her out of the way. John Sands, captain of the Sea Witch, catches a glimpse of the great ship as it passes by: Her name is Mary Deare, and her crew is nowhere to be seen. A salvage expert, Sands sees a payday in the abandoned, drifting.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes/ 1956
The Wreck of the Mary Deare. Hammond Innes.. He published children's books under the pseudonym Ralph Hammond until 1953. Four of his novels were made into films. He was awarded a C.B.E. (Commander, Order of the British Empire) in 1978 and received the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement award in 1993. He died on June 10, 1998 and left a bulk of.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare 1959 Gary Cooper & Charlton Etsy
But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved. As Hammond Innes' classic tale moves from desperate struggles on the sea to a nail-biting courtroom controversy, the murky truth about the last voyage of the Mary Deare finally comes to light. Publisher: Vintage Publishing. ISBN: 9780099577430. Number of pages: 288. Weight: 202 g.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes Penguin Books Australia
The Wreck of the Mary Deare has a good plot and Innes has a marvellous way of painting a scene with nothing more than the words from his pen but provides such colourful narrative that the reader actually feels transported to the situation he is describing. As with Air Bridge the central character is just a normal chap who finds himself.
THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE, poster art, lr Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, 1959 Stock Photo Alamy
I certainly couldn't have drawn a picture of the MARY DEARE as Innes described it toward the end, not even a crude drawing. I give the first 25% of the book 4 stars, the next 25% of the book 3 stars and the final two quarters of the book 1 star each, for an average of 2.2 stars. Then I deduct the .2 stars as an annoyance tax. 2 stars
The Wreck Of The Mary Deare Book STELLIANA NISTOR
A chap who writes books for other chaps gets a welcome reissue. The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a cracker ― Irish Times Original in its plot and extraordinarily clever in its constant succession of mysterious twists and surprising revelations, it is an utterly engrossing tale ― New York Times The Wreck of the Mary Deare gave me a total love of thrillers and Hammond Innes is an absolutely.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare Five Books Expert Reviews
The Wreck of the Mary Deare. MP3 CD - Audiobook, 13 Sept. 2016. They dismissed the Mary Deare as a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap . For 40 years this 6,000-ton freighter had tramped the seas, suffered shipwreck twice, and been torpedoed three times in two world wars. Then one March night, battered and bruised and empty.
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare (in the UK published as The Mary Deare) is a 1956 novel written by British author Hammond Innes, [1] which was later adapted as a film starring Gary Cooper released in 1959 by MGM. [2] According to Jack Adrian, the book "at a stroke launched him into that rarefied empyrean most writers yearn for though few attain.
2 Vintage Hammond Innes 1st Edition Books, Wreck Of The Mary Deare First Ed 1956 Atlantic Fury
An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk.. The wreck of the Mary Deare by Innes, Hammond, 1913-1998. Publication date 1981 Topics Fiction in English 1900-1945 Texts Publisher [London] : Fontana
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare. Audio CD - Unabridged, July 2, 2019. They dismissed the Mary Deare as 'a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap'. For 40 years this 6,000-ton freighter had tramped the seas, suffered shipwreck twice, and been torpedoed three times in two world wars. Then one March night, battered and bruised and.
The wreck of the Mary Deare by Innes, Hammond (9780099577430) BrownsBfS
The Wreck of the Mary Deare is likely Hammond Innes' most famous and successful work, helped in part by the feature film made just three years after the novel's publication. It opens with thrills and adventure and never really stops.. Gideon S. Patch, captain of the ill-fated cargo steamer Mary Deare, becomes the driving force of the book.
2 Vintage Hammond Innes 1st Edition Books, Wreck Of The Mary Deare First Ed 1956 Atlantic Fury
The Wreck of the Mary Deare. Hammond Innes. Penguin Random House, 2013 - Fiction - 288 pages. The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard, working without sleep or sustenance to save her from sinking. But this man is no hero, and this ship was not meant to be saved.
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Overall, The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a page-turner. It was great to read shortly after its 1956 release, every bit as exciting during a second read nearly sixty years later, and much better than the 1959 movie that bears the same name. It's also right up there with The Riddle of the Sands (circa 1903, by Erskine Childers) as one of the.
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
Paperback - 22 Aug. 1997. The Mary Deare was a 6000-ton freighter, which for forty years had tramped the seas, been shipwrecked and torpedoed during the war. Then one night she emerges from the Bay of Biscay after severe gales and is propelled into the newspaper headlines as a ship of mystery and tragedy.