• Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by British writer Stephen Baxter. Raft is both Baxter's debut novel and the first book in the Xeelee Sequence...
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  • may also refer to: Raft (band), a French band Raft (novel), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter Raft (video game), a survival game developed by Redbeet...
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  • The Stone Raft (Portuguese: A Jangada de Pedra) is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago. It was written in 1986, and was translated into English...
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    they flee on their raft. Huck and Jim come across a grounded steamboat on which two thieves discuss murdering a third. Finding their raft has drifted away...
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  • A Yellow Raft in Blue Water is the debut novel of author Michael Dorris, published in 1987. It tells the story of three generations of Native American...
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    sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. It has also been published as The Giant Raft. It is an adventure novel, involving how Joam...
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  • wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. Other novels in the series include...
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    characters in the classic 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The book chronicles his and Huckleberry's raft journey down the Mississippi...
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  • Derek will die of dehydration long before anyone finds them, Brian builds a raft in a desperate bid to navigate down the unknown river to Brannock's Trading...
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  • Snow Crash (category 1992 American novels)
    where the Raft, a huge collection of boats containing Eurasian refugees, is approaching the West Coast of the United States. The center of the Raft is L. Bob...
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    area like Stegosaurus South in the novel. An adult and baby Stegosaurus stand on either side of the river. The raft begins to head toward a part of the...
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  • They Drive by Night (category Films based on American novels)
    is a 1940 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart, and featuring Gale Page,...
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  • The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and...
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    Timber rafting is a method of transporting felled tree trunks by tying them together to make rafts, which are then drifted or pulled downriver, or across...
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  • High Sierra (film) (category Films based on American novels)
    Walsh tried to persuade Raft otherwise but Raft did not want his character to die at the end of the film. Filmink said Raft "turned down High Sierra...
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  • "The Raft" is a horror short story by Stephen King. It was first published as a booklet included with Gallery in November 1982 and was collected in King's...
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    Whistle Stop (1946 film) (category Films based on American novels)
    American film noir crime film directed by Léonide Moguy and starring George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen, and Tom Conway. It was produced by Seymour...
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  • The Cay (redirect from The Cay (novel))
    last seen by other stranded survivors as he drifted away on a life raft. The novel was published in 1969 and dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. During...
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    on an improvised raft towed by the frigate's launches. The towing proved impractical, however, and the boats soon abandoned the raft and its passengers...
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    Carley float (redirect from Carley raft)
    The Carley float (sometimes Carley raft) was a form of invertible liferaft designed by American inventor Horace Carley (1838–1918). Supplied mainly to...
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  • The damaged ship arrives on an unknown planet. Aenea and Raul construct a raft to follow the River Tethys without the ship. De Soya begins an odyssey of...
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  • Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton; it is a cautionary tale about genetic engineering that presents the collapse...
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  • George Raft. The plot involves an investigative reporter who is unjustly thrown in jail and befriends a famous gangster. The film was based on the novel of...
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  • wrote a short story collection titled Pretending the Bed Is a Raft (1997), as well as novels Crossing Blood (1991), Balls (1999), Verbena (2002), and As...
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    Journey to the Center of the Earth (category 1864 French novels)
    fight between the monsters almost endangers the raft. A lightning storm threatens to destroy the raft and its passengers, but instead throws them onto...
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  • Witch, Holly Cathers, the main character, is the lone survivor of the rafting trip her family took with her best friend, and later receives a small cat...
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  • Drive by Night, starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart. In the movie, the brothers name were changed to Joe (George Raft) and Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart)...
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  • Predator's Gold (category 2003 British novels)
    young-adult science fiction novel written by Philip Reeve and published in 2003. In the book, Tom and Hester stumble across the ice raft of Anchorage. Predator's...
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  • thriller film about gold smuggling based on the novel by Auguste Le Breton and starring Jean Gabin, George Raft and Gert Fröbe. Paul Berger, known as Paulo...
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  • Black Widow (1954 film) (category Films based on American novels)
    based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Patrick Quentin. The film stars Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, and George Raft. Peter Denver, a renowned...
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