Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks EPUB & PDF – Details About
- Author: Nicholas Sparks
- Genre: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Romance Fiction, Women’s Romance Fiction
- Publish Date: 1 December 2000
- Size: 1 MB
- Format: PDF
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Message In A Bottle
Nicholas Sparks
PROLOGUE
The bottle was dropped overboard on a warm summer evening, a few
hours before the rain began to fall. Like all bottles, it was fragile and would
break if dropped a few feet from the ground. But when sealed properly and
sent to sea, as this one was, it became one of the most seaworthy objects
known to man. It could float safely through hurricanes or tropical storms, it
could bob atop the most dangerous of riptides. It was, in a way, the ideal
home for the message it carried inside, a message that had been sent to fulfill
a promise.
Like that of all bottles left to the whim of the oceans, its course was
unpredictable. Winds and currents play large roles in any bottle’s direction;
storms and debris may shift its course as well. Occasionally a fishing net will
snag a bottle and carry it a dozen miles in the opposite direction in which it
was headed. The result is that two bottles dropped simultaneously into the
ocean might end up a continent apart, or even on opposite sides of the globe.
There is no way to predict where a bottle might travel, and that is part of its
mystery.
This mystery has intrigued people for as long as there have been bottles,
and a few people have tried to learn more about it. In 1929 a crew of German
scientists set out to track the journey of one particular bottle. It was set to sea
in the South Indian Ocean with a note inside asking the finder to record the
location where it washed up and to throw it back into the sea. By 1935 it had
rounded the world and traveled approximately sixteen thousand miles, the
longest distance officially recorded.
Messages in bottles have been chronicled for centuries and include some
of the most famous names in history. Ben Franklin, for instance, used
message-carrying bottles to compile a basic knowledge of East Coast currents
in the mid-1700s—information that is still in use to this day. Even now the
U.S. Navy uses bottles to compile information on tides and currents, and they
are frequently used to track the direction of oil spills.
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