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Author : Philip MacDougall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398115552
Fully illustrated description of Chatham’s well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.
Author : Jeffrey D. Stilwell,Chris Mays
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781527560925
Lost World of Rēkohu explores the extraordinary fossil record of one of the most remote regions of the planet—the Chatham Islands. Once the home of the mysterious Moriori people, this archipelago approximately 850km east of mainland New Zealand preserves a rock archive from a dynamic time in Earth’s history when the southern continents were land-locked together near the South Pole 100 million years ago. Isolated for 83 million years, we now know since the dawn of the new millennium that this ancient region was heavily forested with both avian and non-avian dinosaurs, and the warm waters hosted the largest sea monsters—marine reptiles—that ever lived. This diversity of life on land and in the sea tells a tale never told before in Zealandia, the Moriori’s magical land of the ‘Misty Skies’.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015019919920
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Engineering
ISBN : OXFORD:555076261
Author : Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015073034350
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005475251
Author : David Nelson Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Berlin (Conn. : Town)
ISBN : UOM:39015011865329
Author : L. B. Logan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Carp fisheries
ISBN : UCAL:$B33802
Author : Paul Schneider
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250135216
Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glaciers and refined by storms and tides -- and of its varied inhabitants -- becomes an irresistible biography of a place. Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's roughly chronological human and natural history. His book is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's superb eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. A wonderful introduction, it will also appeal to the millions of people who already have warm associations with these magical places.
Author : David Hepper
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399031059
This significant new reference book provides a complete list of the ships of the Royal Navy which were lost at sea in the age of sail. Arranged in chronological order, it includes outline details of each vessel lost and the circumstances of her loss. 1649 is the start date, which coincides with the execution of Charles I and that time when the Royal Navy entered a new phase as an instrument of state: the launch of the steam-powered and iron-hulled Warrior in 1860 effectively marks the end of the great era of the wooden-hulled sailing warship. Life at sea in the age of sail was a hazardous pursuit, and there were many reasons for a ship being lost. A correspondent to the Nautical Magazine in 1841 detailed some fifty reasons and causes, from being short of crew, abandonment without sufficient cause, the poor condition of a ship, incorrectness of charts, poor dead-reckoning as well as less obvious reasons such as the presence of captains wives and other women. Navigational error, particularly before the chronometer allowed for the accurate calculation of longitude, was a common reason, while poor weather in the form of fog or gales was an obvious peril. So many ships suffered the melancholy fate of lonely disappearance overwhelmed by storm and sea, and witnessed by none. Collisions and fire feature regularly as does, of course, loss to the enemy. Each entry includes details of the ship, its name and type, tonnage and dimensions, origin and place of build, the circumstances of the loss, the date and a list of the main references used. All this material is presented here in a single and highly accessible volume, and represents a major milestone both in naval research and publishing; it offers too a fund of fascinating and compelling stories of maritime misadventure. Praise for the author's previous work: This volume is an amazing encyclopaedic, catalogue of British warships lost between 1920 and 1982 It is strongly recommended to historians, authors, researchers and all those with an interest in the history of the Royal Navy and the Second World War. -Scuttlebut Magazine
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:37739081
Author : Derek Charles Catsam
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813173108
Black Americans in the Jim Crow South could not escape the grim reality of racial segregation, whether enforced by law or by custom. In Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides, author Derek Charles Catsam shows that courtrooms, classrooms, and cemeteries were not the only front lines in African Americans' prolonged struggle for basic civil rights. Buses, trains, and other modes of public transportation provided the perfect means for civil rights activists to protest the second-class citizenship of African Americans, bringing the reality of the violence of segregation into the consciousness of America and the world. In 1947, nearly a decade before the Supreme Court voided school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, sixteen black and white activists embarked on a four-state bus tour, called the Journey of Reconciliation, to challenge discrimination in busing and other forms of public transportation. Although the Journey drew little national attention, it set the stage for the more timely and influential 1961 Freedom Rides. After the Supreme Court's 1960 ruling in Boynton v. Virginia that segregated public transportation violated the Interstate Commerce Act, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and other civil rights groups organized the Freedom Rides to test the enforcement of the ruling in buses and bus terminals across the South. Their goal was simple: "to make bus desegregation," as a CORE press release put it, "a reality instead of merely an approved legal doctrine." Freedom's Main Line argues that the Freedom Rides, a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, were a logical, natural evolution of such earlier efforts as the Journey of Reconciliation, their organizers following models provided by previous challenges to segregation and relying on the principles of nonviolence so common in the larger movement. The impact of the Freedom Rides, however, was unprecedented, fixing the issue of civil rights in the national consciousness. Later activists were often dubbed Freedom Riders even if they never set foot on a bus. With challenges to segregated transportation as his point of departure, Catsam chronicles black Americans' long journey toward increased civil rights. Freedom's Main Line tells the story of bold incursions into the heart of institutional discrimination, journeys undertaken by heroic individuals who forced racial injustice into the national and international spotlight and helped pave the way for the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Finance
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026244413
Author : Colin Brittain
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780750957519
On 29 October 1914 the hospital ship Rohilla left Queensferry with 229 persons on board; the vessel was bound for Dunkirk on an errand of mercy, under wartime restrictions and in deteriorating weather. Just after 4 a.m. there was a tremendous impact as the ship ran on to rocks at Saltwick Nab, a mile south of Whitby. Rohilla was mortally wounded 600 yards from shore, ‘so close to land yet so far from safety’. Over the ensuing days the heartrending loss of 92 lives in terrible circumstances would prove to be Whitby’s greatest maritime disaster, still regarded as one of the worst amongst the annals of the RNLI. This book reveals the heroic actions of the public who waded out into icy turbulent waters to reach those who made the swim to shore and the gallant efforts of lifeboatmen forced to manhandle lifeboats over piers, rocks, overland and down a 200ft cliff.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Basketball
ISBN : IOWA:31858034072086
