North Sea heroes : true stories from a Scottish shore / Mike Shepherd.

Shepherd, Mike, author

[Place of publication not given] : Wild Wolf Publishing, 2022.

225 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

The men of the Armada
Sir George Bruce
Jacobites in rebellion
The men of the Bass
The glorious Frances Wright
Nashoba
Cincinnati
James Croll
The ice age
James Croll's big ideas
Tryggve Gran and Captain Scott
Tryggve Gran flies the North Sea
Tryggve Gran goes to war
Mary Pratt
References.

Inside are seven adventure stories. Read the epic story of survival of the Spanish men shipwrecked on Fair Isle during the Spanish Armada, a most unusual coalmine, a forgotten Jacobite rebellion, the Dundee women who tried to eradicate slavery in the United States and ended up emancipating women instead, the Scottish janitor who made major scientific discoveries, the first flight across the North Sea, and the unexpected reception given to the men from a German U-boat during WWII.

9781907954825 (pbk)

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