The Boat
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| Originally published | May 13, 2008 |
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| Authors | Nam Le |
| Publishers | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Page count | 228 |
| Genres | Short Story |
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| ID | 2914024 |
About The Boat
The Boat is a collection of short stories by the Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le, published in 2008. It contains seven short stories taking place all over the world, from Colombia and the United States to Vietnam, Tehran, Australia and Hiroshima.
Two migrants die crossing Channel in small boat
... The Boat was spotted getting into difficulty, with several people in the water, less than a mile from the French coast early on Wednesday afternoon...
'Remarkable' Titanic menu sells for £84,000 at Wiltshire auction
... More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on 14 April 1912, causing The Boat to sink...
Channel deaths: Government orders inquiry into mass drowning
... It said that might have contributed to the wrong assumption that people on board The Boat had been rescued by the Border Force...
Levi Davis: Missing rugby player's family say they live in hope
... A search was started but was later called off when no-one from The Boat was found to be missing...
Brixton village: How the 'Oxford Street of South London' evolved
... According to the National Archives, there were 1,027 people on board The Boat, and more than 800 of them gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean...
Nyad: Netflix film follows swimmer who braved sharks and jellyfish
... Sharks, for example, are deterred thanks to a piercing audio signal being sent from The Boat...
River Danube: Ukrainian captain jailed after fatal river tour boat crash
... Seven of the 35 people on board were rescued and several bodies quickly recovered, but others were swept away in the swollen river or trapped inside The Boat...
World War Two: The Australian commando raid in Singapore
... Park The Boat off Singapore, then paddle into Keppel Harbour in collapsible canoes under cover of darkness...
Missing Japanese boat: Search for survivors after distress signal
Search teams in Japan say seven people have been found after a tourist boat with 26 people on board disappeared off the northern island of Hokkaido.
Authorities lost contact with the vessel after it sent a distress signal saying it was taking On Water at 13:15 local time (04:15 GMT) on Saturday.
The coastguard could not confirm whether those found were Still Alive .
The Boat , Kazu 1, is believed to have been on a three-hour trip around the Shiretoko Peninsula .
The area is a designated UNESCO world heritage site, and boat trips are popular with tourists hoping to spot whales and Sea Lions as well as brown bears on the rocky beaches.
The Rescue effort - which includes helicopters, patrol boats and Divers - is ongoing. Of the 26 on board, two were crew and two were children.
Kazu 1 was last heard from at around 15:00 local time on Saturday when The Crew said it was tipping at a 30-degree angle and starting to sink, according to Japanese media.
Waves in the area had been high and local fishing boats had apparently decided to return to port by mid-morning.
The Crew reportedly said that all those on board were wearing life jackets.
But temperatures in the area can dip as low as 0C (32F) when night falls.
Source of news: bbc.com
