Down To The Sea In Ships

Author : Horatio Clare
Publisher : Random House
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Seafaring life
ISBN : 9780099526292

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Down to the Sea in Ships by Horatio Clare Pdf

'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat. These ordinary men live extraordinary lives, subject to dangers and difficulties we can only imagine, from hurricanes and pirates to years of confinement in hazardous, if not hellish, environments. Horatio Clare joins two container ships on their epic voyages across the globe and experiences unforgettable journeys. As the ships cross seas of history and incident, seafarers unfold the stories of their lives, and a beautiful and terrifying portrait of the oceans and their human subjects emerges. 'Tremendous' The Times

Author : William J. Lederer
Publisher : Marcel Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443761727

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All the Ships at Sea by William J. Lederer Pdf

Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor

Author : John Masefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490620978

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Selected Poems of John Masefield by John Masefield Pdf

Author : Gary Kinder
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781555847968

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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder Pdf

“Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek

Author : Irvin Anthony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UCAL:$B16336

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Down to the Sea in Ships by Irvin Anthony Pdf

Author : Lincoln Paine
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101970355

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The Sea and Civilization by Lincoln Paine Pdf

A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civilization is a mesmerizing, rhapsodic narrative of maritime enterprise, from the origins of long-distance migration to the great seafaring cultures of antiquity; from Song Dynasty human-powered paddle-boats to aircraft carriers and container ships. Lincoln Paine takes the reader on an intellectual adventure casting the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.

Author : Susann Liebich,Laurence Publicover
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030853396

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Shipboard Literary Cultures by Susann Liebich,Laurence Publicover Pdf

The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and troop transports from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first century, revealing a rich history of shipboard reading, writing, and performing. Contributors are interested both in how literary activities adapt to the maritime world, and in how individual and collective shipboard experiences are structured through—and framed by—such activities. In this respect, the volume builds on scholarship that has explored reading as a spatially situated and embodied practice. As our contributors demonstrate, the shipboard environment and the ocean beyond it place the mind and body under peculiar forms of pressure, and these determine acts of reading—and of writing and performing—in specific ways.

Author : Rose George
Publisher : Portobello Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781846274800

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Deep Sea and Foreign Going by Rose George Pdf

There are 100,000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear and work with. In this unique investigation, Rose George joins the crew of a container ship to chart the murky waters of international shipping, with its powerful naval fleets, pirate gangs, and illegal floating factories, to reveal the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends.

Author : Steve Mentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 1517908620

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Break Up the Anthropocene by Steve Mentz Pdf

Takes the singular eco-catastrophic "Age of Man" and redefines this epoch We live in a new world: the Anthropocene. The Age of Man is defined in many ways, and most dramatically through climate change, mass extinction, and human marks in the geological record. Ideas of the Anthropocene spill out from the geophysical sciences into the humanities, social sciences, the arts, and mainstream debates--but it's hard to know what the new coinage really means. Break Up the Anthropocene argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Albatrosses
ISBN : BL:A0026185620

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pdf

Author : Aubrey Solomon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810842441

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Twentieth Century-Fox by Aubrey Solomon Pdf

In this first paperback edition, Solomon, a screenwriter/story editor who co-authored The Films of Twentieth-Century Fox and produced the television show That's Hollywood, reruns his history of management in the boom and bust years of this major motion picture company. Includes a photo of founder/producer Darryl F. Zanuck; the introduction to the original edition; and data on the studio's hit movies, film rentals, and production costs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Submarines (Ships)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1INV

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Pdf

Author : Tre Tryckare
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 048623584X

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Historic Sailing Ships Coloring Book by Tre Tryckare Pdf

Thirty-four historic sailing ships rendered for coloring. From Phoenician war galley to clipper Cutty Sark, full-page drawings. Captions.

Author : Rachel Rubin Wolf
Publisher : Northlight
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Marine painting
ISBN : 0891347879

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Painting Ships, Shores and the Sea by Rachel Rubin Wolf Pdf

In a magnificent showcase of subjects and styles, the American Society of Marine Artists express their unique visions using watercolor, oil, pastel, acrylic and pen and ink, in 11 demonstrations and 15 mini-demos. Instructions for rendering a variety of nautical elements are featured, from painting dramatic cloud formations and colorful twilights, to depicting calm, wavy and rough water. The artists also reveal their secrets for painting ships, sailboats and other craft with attention to detail such as how to "settle" a boat into the water.This guide also illustrates the keys to capturing the textures of a variety of marine images, including translucent snails, weathered wooden boats, fine sand and sea shells. Additionally, these featured artists offer their valuable advice on gathering source material, painting on location, and choosing materials and tools.

Author : Rachel Slade
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062699718

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Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade Pdf

WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR NON FICTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF JANET MASLIN’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE ONE OF OUTSIDE MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR SO FAR “A powerful and affecting story, beautifully handled by Slade, a journalist who clearly knows ships and the sea.”—Douglas Preston, New York Times Book Review “A Perfect Storm for a new generation.” —Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No one could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications, a sophisticated navigation system, and cutting-edge weather forecasting could suddenly vanish—until now. Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members themselves—whose conversations were captured by the ship’s data recorder—journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of El Faro. As she recounts the final twenty-four hours onboard, Slade vividly depicts the officers’ anguish and fear as they struggled to carry out Captain Michael Davidson’s increasingly bizarre commands, which, they knew, would steer them straight into the eye of the storm. Taking a hard look at America's aging merchant marine fleet, Slade also reveals the truth about modern shipping—a cut-throat industry plagued by razor-thin profits and ever more violent hurricanes fueled by global warming. A richly reported account of a singular tragedy, Into the Raging Sea takes us into the heart of an age-old American industry, casting new light on the hardworking men and women who paid the ultimate price in the name of profit.