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Author : M. E. Markham,F. A. Markham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108071673
A 1927 biography of the naval officer and polar explorer Sir Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918), using his own journals.
Author : Frank Jastrzembski
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526725936
The story of a 19th-century adventurer who battled pirates, hunted buffalo, sailed the Arctic, and was “one of the most arresting figures of his time” (The Globe). Few men have lived such an extraordinary life as Admiral Albert Hastings Markham. Besides dedicating five decades of his career to Britain’s Royal Navy, Markham was a voracious reader, prolific writer, keen naturalist, and daring explorer. He battled Chinese pirates during the Second Opium War and Taiping Rebellion; chased down Australian blackbirding ships in the South Pacific; trekked to within 400 miles of the North Pole; hunted buffalo and visited Indian reservations in the United States; observed a bloody war in South America; canoed Canada’s remote Hayes River; and explored the icy waters of Baffin Bay and the Arctic Ocean archipelago of Novaya Zemlya. At the time of his death in 1918, The Globe declared that Markham had been “one of the most arresting figures of his time.” While Markham’s life was filled with adventure, it was also marred by tragedy. Regrettably, Markham is best remembered for his role in the sinking of HMS Victoria in 1893. This one incident has tarnished his legacy until now. This book follows Markham through his adventures and misfortunes—and reassesses the life of this forgotten yet fascinating admiral.
Author : Richard Hough
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1904381138
In 1893, the flagship of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet sank within ten minutes of colliding with another Navy battleship while anchoring off Tripoli, with the loss of 350 crew. This text examines how the accident happened and looks at why the ship sank so quickly.
Author : Albert Hastings Markham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108074841
A 1917 biography of the explorer and historical geographer, written by his cousin and fellow polar enthusiast.
Author : David Traum,William Swartout,Peter Khooshabeh,Stefan Kopp,Stefan Scherer,Anton Leuski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319476650
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2016, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in September 2016. The 12 full papers, 18 short papers, and 37 demo and poster papers accepted were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. IVA 2016 also includes three workshops: Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agents (WOCHAT), Can you feel me now? Creating Physiologically Aware Virtual Agents (PAVA), and Graphical and Robotic Embodied Agents for Therapeutic Systems, GREATS16. Intelligent Virtual Aspects (IVAs) are intelligent digital interactive characters that can communicate with humans and other agents using natural human modalities such as facial expressions, speech, gestures, and movement. They are capable of real-time perception, cognition, emotion and action that allow them to participate in dynamic social environments. Constructing and studying IVAs requires tools from a wide range of fields such as computer science, psychology, cognitive science, communication, linguistics, interactive media, human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence.
Author : William Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786482887
This work provides biographies of more than 500 men and women who have served as admiral, vice admiral, or rear admiral. While officers from the U.S., British, French and Japanese navies make up the bulk of the work, officers from 22 countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Spain, are also included. The main criterion for inclusion is that each person must have actively served in the rank of at least rear admiral, but not necessarily in enemy action. This effectively rules out people who were granted the rank on retirement, as a courtesy title or posthumously. The book also includes lists of admirals organized by nationality and by year of birth.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066342522
Author : George Newnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015056049433
Author : Maurice Archibald Bourke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : NYPL:33433009406038
Author : Sir Albert Hastings Markham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UCAL:$B556635
Author : Great Britain. Admiralty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:097379018
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Geography
ISBN : IND:30000099853867
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : NYPL:33433009335245
Author : R A Burt
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848321731
This volume brings to completion the reissue of R A Burt's magnificent bestselling three-volume history of British battleships, and it covers the pre-dreadnought era which has, in recent years, acquired a new and fervent following.??The Russian war scare of 1884 and the public's anxiety about the Royal Navy's ability to fight a modern war at sea resulted in the Naval Defence Act of 1889 and a vast programme of warship construction. Over the next twenty years a fleet of 52 battleships was built, construction finally interrupted by the revolutionary Dreadnought design. In this new volume, the author presents full details of design and construction, armament, protection, machinery and performance, all backed up with accurate data tables listing design figures, trials results, and full particulars at different stages in the ships' careers. The history of each battleship is chronicled and the reader is reminded of their major contribution in the First World War. They bore the brunt of the action at the Dardenelles, bombarded the Belgium coast, patrolled the North Sea and the Channel, reinforced the Italian Fleet, and served in East Africa, the East Indies and the White Sea. Most were extensively modified during the War and this variety has made them of special interest to the historian, enthusiast and ship modeller.??With the addition of many new photographs from the author's massive collection, this new edition is simply a 'must-have' addition to every naval library.
Author : Albert Hastings Markham
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368860936
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.