The Sand Pebbles

✍ McKenna, Richard 📂 Fiction 📅 1962 🏛 RosettaBooks 🌐 en-US ⚖ 323 KB

Conflicted crew of US gunboat cruising China's straits in the 1920's risks involvement in Chinese civil war. First published in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, this was the author's only novel: he died at 51. Some brilliant science fiction stories, often reprinted, preceded the novel. Memorably filmed

The Sand Pebbles

✍ McKenna, Richard 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 RosettaBooks 🌐 English ⚖ 325 KB

As a spirit of nationalism inspired by Chiang Kai-shek’s leadership begins to sweep through China, the river gunship San Pablo is ordered to patrol the region and to protect U.S. citizens. The crew of the ship is soon drawn into an international conflict when the Chinese Nationalists begin trying to

The Sand Pebbles

✍ Richard McKenna 📂 Fiction 📅 1962;2010 🏛 RosettaBooks 🌐 en-US ⚖ 333 KB 👁 3 views

As a spirit of nationalism inspired by Chiang Kai-shek's leadership begins to sweep through China, the river gunship San Pablo is ordered to patrol the region and to protect U.S. citizens. The crew of the ship is soon drawn into an international conflict when the Chinese Nationalists begin trying to

The Sand Pebbles

✍ Richard McKenna 📂 Fiction 📅 1962;2010 🏛 RosettaBooks 🌐 en-US ⚖ 333 KB 👁 3 views

As a spirit of nationalism inspired by Chiang Kai-shek's leadership begins to sweep through China, the river gunship San Pablo is ordered to patrol the region and to protect U.S. citizens. The crew of the ship is soon drawn into an international conflict when the Chinese Nationalists begin trying to

Air-Based Measurements of Permeability i

Air-Based Measurements of Permeability in Pebbly Sands

✍ Caleb M. Conrad; Robert W. Ritzi; David F. Dominic 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 491 KB

Exploration of raw materials sand, grave

Exploration of raw materials sand, gravel and pebbles in Danish waters

✍ Lars Beksgaard Jensen; John Tychsen 📂 Article 📅 1983 🏛 Elsevier Science ⚖ 163 KB