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Coast Guard Miscellaneous Legislation
Considers (89) H.R. 7855, (89) H.R. 7856, (89) H.R. 7865, (89) H.R. 727, (89) H.R. 7965, (89) H.R. 7779, (89) H.R. 8851, (89) H.R. 8761, (89) H.R. 3296, (89) H.R. 5079, (89) H.R. 8770, (89) H.R. 725, (89) H.R. 722, (89) H.R. 956, (89) H.R. 5217, (89) H.R. 2137, (89) H.R. 3351, (89) S. 2471, (89) H.R. 10822, (89) H.R. 11781.
Sole Survivor
On November 23, 1942, German U-Boats torpedoed the British ship Benlomond and it sank in the Atlantic in two minutes. The sole survivor was a second steward named Poon Lim, who, with no knowledge of the sea, managed to stay alive for 133 days on a small wooden raft. Finally rescued at the mouth of the Amazon River, Poon was hailed as the "World's Champion Survivor." He still holds the Guinness World Record for survival at sea.
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Floating Gold
A fascinating natural history of an incredibly curious substance. “Preternaturally hardened whale dung” is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes the sophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre digestive by-product—ambergris. Despite being one of the world’s most expensive substances (its value is nearly that of gold and has at times in history been triple it), ambergris is also one of the world’s least known. But with this unusual and highly alluring book, Christopher Kemp promises to change that by uncovering the unique history of ambergris. A rare secretion ...
