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Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039567057
This book decribes the author's sail down the Yangtze with a party of American millionaires.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015008176029
Indtryk af Kina set fra en turistbåd for millionærer, på vej ned af Yangtze-floden
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Yangtze River (China)
ISBN : 0146000323
An account of Theroux's 1979 trip down the Yangtze river at a time when hard-line Maoists were in power. Theroux observes China's towns, cliffs, rapids, shrines and people, as well as the relationship between his fellow travellers, American tourists, and the Chinese. He concludes that in this country, things may never get better than they already are, and sees it as a country that may hold clues to the possible future of mankind.
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871403483
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships. Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and beche-de-mer—a rare sea cucumber delicacy—might have catalyzed America’s emerging economy, but it also sparked an ecological and human rights catastrophe of such epic proportions that the reverberations can still be felt today. Peopled with fascinating characters—from the “Financier of the Revolution” Robert Morris to the Chinese emperor Qianlong, who considered foreigners inferior beings—this page-turning saga of pirates and politicians, coolies and concubines becomes a must-read for any fan of Nathaniel Philbrick’s Mayflower or Mark Kurlansky’s Cod.
Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Travelers
ISBN : 0140062394
It needed twenty-three vessels and seven months to transport Gavin Young by slow boat from Piraeus to Canton - seven months crowded with adventure, excitement and colour. His account of a fantasy come true memorably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships and history of the places he encountered in a quite exceptional book.
Author : Jo Winter
Publisher : Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781786791726
This first edition of South China Sea is the successor to Stephen Davies and Elaine Morgan's Cruising Guide to Southeast Asia, Volume I (Imray). Building on the earlier work, this new edition has been updated and expanded to include coverage of Cambodia and Taiwan. For the past 12 years, Jo Winter has been cruising these waters in her 45' Island Packet, Brother Wind, and she describes it as one of the most diverse, beautiful, unspoilt and undiscovered sailing areas in the world. The book covers thousands of miles of coastline, a multitude of islands and inland up many of the region's navigable rivers. Along with a comprehensive range of information to help with planning a cruise in this region, the introductory section details weather information, including coverage of typhoons, and also indicates piracy risk areas to be avoided. Sailing directions include small scale area plans to orientate the navigator and larger scale plans to show details of harbours and anchorages. Full colour throughout, the plans and numerous photographs illustrate key features and places. Whether transiting the region or planning a more extended cruise along any of the coastlines bordering the South China Sea, this guide is an essential companion.
Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UCSD:31822033784497
Author : T N Hari,Sanjay Swamy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789390358793
The COVID-19 pandemic was a bolt from the blue. The world never expected it; neither was it prepared. This is a kind of crisis that most of us are unlikely to experience more than once in our lifetimes. Individuals and companies are trying hard to cope and adapt. The truth though is that we constantly deal with crises in our lives. The consequences of some of these crises are far worse than those posed by the pandemic. Imagine being born in Afghanistan in the 1980s or 1990s or being born to a sex worker in any country. Life itself would be a crisis. Yet, some deal with a crisis with equanimity and courage while some others give up. A crisis can be a great opportunity for innovation. Almost every great innovation has been in response to a crisis of some sort. We have seen this in recent times, and we have seen this throughout history. Sailing through a Storm brings us this hope. An inspiring read, this comprises beautiful stories of women and men who dealt with adversity, how they emerged strong and successful, and how drawing from their lives we too can turn the storm around to make it work for us.
Author : Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d' Après de Mannevillette,John Purdy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Australia
ISBN : BL:A0019033115
Author : Paul Henry King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : UOM:39015062213148
"I am reproducing two authentic 'travelogues', the first [by Rev. Alexander Williamson] describing a voyage of the older period in a sailing ship from London to Shanghai in 1855, and the second [by Mrs. Madge Williamson King] ... noting various incidents during a journey to China via the Atlantic, the United States of America and the Pacific in the transition era of 1904."--p. 16.
Author : Toy Len Chang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824813138
Sailing for the Sun celebrates in 1989 the bicentenary of the arrival of the first Chinese in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1789, the Islands had not yet been united as a kingdom under Kamehameha; the various Islands were ruled by high chiefs for several more years. The Islands, "discovered" just a scant 11 years before by the British Captain James Cook, were a beautiful chain of lush lands, soaring volcanic mountains, with a moderate climate and a relatively sparse population.
Author : Louise Levathes
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504007368
One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the world’s “four corners.” Seven epic expeditions brought China’s treasure ships across the China Seas and Indian Ocean, from Japan to the spice island of Indonesia and the Malabar Coast of India, on to the rich ports of the Persian Gulf and down the East African coast, to China’s “El Dorado,” and perhaps even to Australia, three hundred years before Captain Cook’s landing. It was a time of exploration and expansion, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period in China’s enigmatic history, focusing on the country’s rise as a naval power that briefly brought half the world under its nominal authority. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab, and Indian sources, many translated for the first time, Levathes brings readers inside China’s most illustrious scientific and technological era. She sheds new light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived, as well as the perception of China by other contemporary cultures. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, When China Ruled the Seas is the fullest picture yet of the early Ming dynasty—the last flowering of Chinese culture before the Manchu invasion.
Author : James Horsburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Aids to navigation
ISBN : UCAL:$C18473
Author : Timothy Severin
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002685689
The award-winning author of The Brendan Voyage makes a bold Pacific journey to test a scholar's theory that Asian navigators were the first to discover North America as early as 218 B.C., when the great sea captain Hsu Fu set sail in search of the elixir of immortality. Full-color inserts.
Author : United States. Naval Oceanographic Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211330365