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Author : William H. Miller
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445623443
The story in words and pictures of the Floating Palaces, the transatlantic liners that were as much floating art as a means of transport.
Author : Joel Stone
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472051755
A lively history of the most majestic ships to ever ply the Great Lakes
Author : Abilio Estevez
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628722369
A novel of Havana. With passion and eloquence, master craftsman Abilio Estevez brings to life the mysterious, broken down city of Havana on the eve of the new millennium. Victorio, a lonely, middle-aged gay man, awakes to the news that the ancient palace where he rents a tiny apartment is scheduled to be demolished, leaving him homeless. Wandering the streets in search of a new place to call his own, he meets two unusual people who are destined to change his life: Salma, a young prostitute, and Don Fuco, an eccentric old clown who brings both of them to live in his own refuge, an abandoned theater. In a city riddled with conflict and no longer tolerant of outcasts, the pair find solace in one another and in the dilapidated theater that shelters them, and a renewed joy in their collective abilities to entertain people with their clowning. But when the harsh realities of life intrude on their self-contained utopia, Victorio and Salma are forced back out into the streets, where they struggle to keep beauty and laughter alive. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Harvey H. Jackson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817307714
"Jackson weaves a seamless tale stretching from the Native-American river settlements ... to the paper mills and hydroelectric plants of the late twentieth century". -- Southern Historian
Author : Louis C. Hunter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780486157788
Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Author : S.L. Kotar,J.E. Gessler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786456970
The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive. From the steamboat's development by Robert Fulton to the dawn of the Civil War, the new mode of transportation opened up America's frontiers and created new trade routes and economic centers. Firsthand accounts of steamboat accidents, races, business records and river improvements are collected here to reveal the culture and economy of the early to mid-1800s, as well as the daily routines of crew and passengers. A glossary of steamboat terms and a collection of contemporary accounts of accidents round out this history of the riverboat era.
Author : Birgit Braasch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Atlantic Ocean
ISBN : 9783643962461
Author : Walter Lewis
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781770703186
Steamboats carrying passengers from Hamilton to Montreal via the rapids of the St. Lawrence were a popular sight in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In 1855, the Kingston, an iron steamboat built for John Hamilton, appeared in the Great Lakes. When the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) toured British North America in 1860, the Kingston became his floating palace for much of his time between Quebec and Toronto. While many steamboats claimed to be floating palaces, the Kingston truly was one. In 1855, the Kingston, an iron steamboat built for John Hamilton (1802-82), appeared in the Great Lakes. When the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) came to British North America for the first royal tour in 1860, the Kingston became his floating palace for much of his time between Quebec and Toronto. Many steamboats claimed to be floating palaces. The Kingston was. The Kingston was wrecked many times and survived spectacular fires in 1872 and 1873. Late in her career, she was converted into a salvage vessel and renamed the Cornwall. In 1930 she was finally taken out and sunk near one of Kingstons ship graveyards. There she remained until diver Rick Neilson discovered her in 1989. Today, the once palatial Kingston is a popular dive site and tourist attraction.
Author : Cecelia Frances Page
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781440165856
THE FUTURE AGE BEYOND THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT reveals the NEW AGE MOVEMENT over 130 years. Successes and failures are described in different NEW AGE religious groups. This book contains the most important messages you can possibly read on this planet and the most important events on Earth in 75,000 years. Influential leaders in the New Age Movement are Helena Blavatsky, Francia La Due, William Quan Judge, William David Dower, Ph.D., Godfrey Rey King, Rudolph Steiner Mark and Elizabeth Prophet, Aleister Crowley, Dolores Cannon, Wynn Free, David Wilcox, Barbara Hand Clow, Michael Newton, Lyssa Royal and Ashayana Deane, etc. Part One focuses on the New Age Renaissance of 1966 through 1976. In Part Two we have explored the history of the New Age Movement through the 1970s and traced many of its most popular beliefs and practices to very ancient times. In Part Three we gave details about the Future Age Movement from 1987 to 2013.
Author : Carl A. Brasseaux,Keith P. Fontenot
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807129755
In an extraordinary feat of research and intrepid historical navigation, Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot serve as guides through the labyrinthian and often harrowing world of Louisiana bayou steamboat journeys of the mid to late nineteenth century. The bayou country's steamboat saga mirrors in microcosm the tale of America's most colorful -- and most highly romanticized -- transportation era. But Brasseaux and Fontenot brace readers with a boldly revisionist picture of the opulent Mississippi River floating palaces: stripped-down, utilitarian freight-haulers belching smoke from twin stacks, churning through shallow swamps and narrow tributary streams, and encountering such hazards as shoals, sawyers, stumps, highwater and dry-bed seasons, and the remains of vessels claimed by those treacheries. For decades, steamboats transported goods, passengers, and mail between New Orleans and south Louisiana's vibrant interior agricultural region, bearing testimony to the resourcefulness, ingenuity, and tenacity of crews in conquering the challenges posed by a forbidding environment. Brasseaux and Fontenot marshaled a monumental array of information, including sources long-buried in courthouses, private collections, and the records of the Army Corps of Engineers. They offer data on some five hundred steamboats, keelboats, and barges known to have operated in the bayou country. This book is the first major study of a fascinating slice of the steamboat industry, showcasing a trade critically important to New Orleans's prosperity but largely forgotten in southern historiography until now. Encompassing economic, social, transportation, and environmental history, it captures the period just before the iron horse emerged as America's undisputed master of inland conveyance.
Author : Rufus Ward
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614231219
The Tombigbee River flows through the history of Alabama and Mississippi, connecting the Black Prairie cotton belt of northeast Mississippi and west Alabama to Mobile and the Gulf of Mexico. In the early 1800s, it became the regional artery of commerce and trade, with steamboats carrying cotton to the port of Mobile and then returning upriver with farm supplies and consumer goods. Today, the "rollodores," who rolled cotton bales down slides to the decks of boats; the sunken logs, or "dead heads," that could sink a boat if struck; and the "side-wheeler" model steamboats have all but vanished. The Tombigbee River Steamboats brings this forgotten era back to life through accounts of the steamboats, their crews and their trials, such as the haunting story of the steamer Eliza Battle, which burned and sank on a freezing, flooded river.
Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Starfire
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553277883
A humorous account of the author's excursions through the Maritime Provinces in a thirty-one-foot craft that was barely seaworthy
Author : John S. C. Abbott
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547780861
The Rise and Fall of Austria or the Habsburg Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Muslim invasion rolled up the Danube, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religious war, the intrigues of Popes, the enormous pride, power and encroachments of Louis XIV, the warfare of the Spanish succession and the Polish dismemberment. All these events combine in a sublime tragedy which fiction may in vain attempt to parallel.
Author : David M. Jacobson,Nikos Kokkinos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004165465
Nineteen studies illuminating Herod's role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable achievements, as expressed in his extensive building programme. Josephus' record is examined here in the light of the available documentary and archaeological evidence.
Author : Ann Satterthwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199392544
14 Symbols of Pride -- Part Four Born Again: Revived Opera Houses and Their Communities -- 15 The Phoenix Rises -- 16 Successes -- 17 Engines for Regeneration -- 18 Like Family -- 19 Connecting Again -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Listing of Extant Opera Houses by State -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
