Sailor

Author : Gilles Grelet
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781913029166

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Theory of the Solitary Sailor by Gilles Grelet Pdf

Grelet's solitary sailor is a radical theoretical figure, herald angel of an existential rebellion against the world and against philosophy's world-thought. Over a decade ago, Gilles Grelet left the city to live permanently on the sea, in silence and solitude, with no plans to return to land, rarely leaving his boat Théorème. An act of radical refusal, a process of undoing one by one the ties that attach humans to the world, for Grelet this departure was also inseparable from an ongoing campaign of anti-philosophy. Like François Laruelle's "ordinary man" or Rousseau's "solitary walker," Grelet's solitary sailor is a radical theoretical figure, herald angel of an existential rebellion against the world and against philosophy's world-thought, point zero of an anti-philosophy as rigorous gnosis, and apprentice in the herethics of navigation. More than a set of scattered reflections, less than a system of thought, Theory of the Solitary Sailor is a gnostic device. It answers the supposed necessity of realizing the world-thought that is philosophy (or whatever takes its place) with a steadfast and melancholeric refusal. As indifferently serene and implacably violent as the ocean itself, devastating for the sufficiency of the world and the reign of semblance, this is a lived anti-philosophy, a perpetual assault waged from the waters off the coast of Brittany, amid sea and wind.

Author : David F. Schmitz
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813180465

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The Sailor by David F. Schmitz Pdf

In The Sailor, David F. Schmitz presents a comprehensive reassessment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policymaking. Most historians have cast FDR as a leader who resisted an established international strategy and who was forced to react quickly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, launching the nation into World War II. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents as well as the latest secondary sources, Schmitz challenges this view, demonstrating that Roosevelt was both consistent and calculating in guiding the direction of American foreign policy throughout his presidency. Schmitz illuminates how the policies FDR pursued in response to the crises of the 1930s transformed Americans' thinking about their place in the world. He shows how the president developed an interlocking set of ideas that prompted a debate between isolationism and preparedness, guided the United States into World War II, and mobilized support for the war while establishing a sense of responsibility for the postwar world. The critical moment came in the period between Roosevelt's reelection in 1940 and the Pearl Harbor attack, when he set out his view of the US as the arsenal of democracy, proclaimed his war goals centered on protection of the four freedoms, secured passage of the Lend-Lease Act, and announced the principles of the Atlantic Charter. This long-overdue book presents a definitive new perspective on Roosevelt's diplomacy and the emergence of the United States as a world power. Schmitz's work offers an important correction to existing studies and establishes FDR as arguably the most significant and successful foreign policymaker in the nation's history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Merchant mariners
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6GNX

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The Sailor's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Baker,Jo Stanley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868705

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Hello Sailor! by Paul Baker,Jo Stanley Pdf

When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of ships that were household names and the pride of the British fleet. Hello Sailor! uniquely shows what it was like to be queer at sea at a time when land meant straightness.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Merchant mariners
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6GNW

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The Sailor's Magazine, and Naval Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1752 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Theology
ISBN : OXFORD:555007747

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The Mariners' Church Gospel Temperance Soldiers' and Sailor's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : E.G. ‘Lusko
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796031409

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A Sailor's Tale by E.G. ‘Lusko Pdf

In 1888, a US Navy sailor begins writing letters to his niece. The letters tell her where he is and what ventures he has gotten himself into. His sailor letters are retrospective, written after things happen. He also must tell her how he got to the place in time he started writing. He is educated for the time, trained as a naval navigator, lighthouse repairman, and watch repairman. His language is as he would speak to his fellow crew—clipped, as sailors use few G sounds, and an apostrophe is used to indicate the word is shortened, as they do. He is honest and kind. He is well trained in sword fighting. His enlistment contract is not the standard form. His mother’s attorney wrote it. The fleet admiral approved it as he had served with the sailor’s uncle. His uncle was a noted ship navigator, shipmaster, an author of navy lore, and now provided ocean metrological data to the naval observatory. He has carried this on. His early experiences involve train travel to San Francisco. The ship charts the then Northwest Territory and the Alaskan coast. His group verifies charts of the Missouri River. Mostly, his ship supplies food provisions to navy frigates in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.

Author : William Clark Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Dime novels, American
ISBN : UVA:X002264999

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A Sailor's Sweetheart by William Clark Russell Pdf

Author : Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : NYPL:33433006837839

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The Sailor's Ready-reference Book by Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford Pdf

Author : Theodore C. Mason
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511566

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Battleship Sailor by Theodore C. Mason Pdf

Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.

Author : Phil Masters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472806154

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Sinbad the Sailor by Phil Masters Pdf

This book retells the story of Sinbad the Sailor and recounts tales of the voyages on which he acquired his wealth, of the strange peoples and monsters he encountered along the way and of lands beyond the horizon. It places the fiction of Sinbad, popularised in the collection of stories known as the Arabian Nights, into the context of medieval Cairo where these tales were originally told. By retracing the history of these stories and the Arabian voyages of exploration and trade which inspired them, and by examining modern incarnations of Sinbad that have appeared since his stories reached the West, this book breathes new life into these ancient tales of adventure, magic and mystery.

Author : Lawrence Verria,George Galdorisi
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511276

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The Kissing Sailor by Lawrence Verria,George Galdorisi Pdf

On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan’s surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world’s dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Everyone who saw the picture wanted to know more about the nurse and sailor, but Eisenstaedt had no information and a search for the mysterious couple’s identity took on a dimension of its own. In 1979 Eisenstaedt thought he had found the long lost nurse. And as far as almost everyone could determine, he had. For the next thirty years Edith Shain was known as the woman in the photo of V-J Day, 1945, Times Square. In 1980 LIFE attempted to determine the sailor’s identity. Many aging warriors stepped forward with claims, and experts weighed in to support one candidate over another. Chaos ensued. For almost two decades Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi were intrigued by the controversy surrounding the identity of the two principals in Eisenstaedt’s most famous photograph and collected evidence that began to shed light on this mystery. Unraveling years of misinformation and controversy, their findings propelled one claimant’s case far ahead of the others and, at the same time, dethroned the supposed kissed nurse when another candidate’s claim proved more credible. With this book, the authors solve the 67-year-old mystery by providing irrefutable proof to identify the couple in Eisenstaedt’s photo. It is the first time the whole truth behind the celebrated picture has been revealed. The authors also bring to light the couple’s and the photographer’s brushes with death that nearly prevented their famous spontaneous Times Square meeting in the first place. The sailor, part of Bull Halsey’s famous task force, survived the deadly typhoon that took the lives of hundreds of other sailors. The nurse, an Austrian Jew who lost her mother and father in the Holocaust, barely managed to escape to the United States. Eisenstaedt, a World War I German soldier, was nearly killed at Flanders.

Author : Rusty Bittermann
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773537736

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Sailor's Hope by Rusty Bittermann Pdf

The story of an important figure in the history of pre-Confederation Canada.

Author : Claire Saxby
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781771380225

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There Was an Old Sailor by Claire Saxby Pdf

In this nautical update on the familiar childhood rhyme "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," an old sailor swallows a krill, which makes him ill, so he swallows a jellyfish to catch the krill, and a feeding frenzy begins! Young readers will love the cumulative rhyme, and grown-ups will appreciate the fresh take on an old favorite.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Aerie
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429959544

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Billy Budd by Herman Melville Pdf

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Billy Budd includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn. Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the handsome sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him... All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life miserable. But when a fear of mutinies swept through the fleet, Claggart realized he could do more than just torment the Handsome Sailor...He could frame Billy Budd for treason... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.