Download Full eBooks in PDF
Shipwrecks And Disasters At Sea Or Historical Narratives Of The Most Noted Calamities And Providential Deliverances From Fire And Famine On The Ocean Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Shipwrecks And Disasters At Sea Or Historical Narratives Of The Most Noted Calamities And Providential Deliverances From Fire And Famine On The Ocean book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Sir John Graham Dalyell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Lifesaving
ISBN : BL:A0022120009
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : UCBK:C052249790
Author : Charles Ellms
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1333156219
Excerpt from Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, or Historical Narratives of the Most Noted Calamities, and Providential Deliverances From Fire and Famine, on the Ocean Then thou art glorious when the tem est howls, Like a roused tigress spri in to the ht; And the black s y grows b anger it scowls Upon the night, When thunder roars, and the red lightning leaps Over the foaming deeps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : HARVARD:32044082188061
Author : Charles Ellms
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021611824
This book provides gripping accounts of some of the most notable shipwrecks and disasters at sea in history. A must-read for maritime enthusiasts and history buffs alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Paul A. Gilje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521762359
This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.
Author : Rainer K. Baehre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773574199
There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a country's social and cultural identity. Outrageous Seas is about that time, and about the harrowing, almost mythic, experience of shipwreck, near-shipwreck, and survival in waters off Newfoundland. Travellers from many walks of life - explorers and missionaries, traders, fishers and mariners, Native Peoples, aristocrats and immigrants - have left rare and fascinating first-hand accounts of such disasters. Their narratives span four centuries and touch many historical sub-themes such as the appeal of religion in times of crisis, gender roles, and the ocean-as-workplace. Apart from its obvious scholarly appeal, this collection evokes psychic responses to calamity and brushes with death, perhaps the most universal experience of all.
Author : Shawn Thomson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838642177
For individuals who are interested in how Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and other narratives of shipwrecks and castaways influenced antebellum American Culture, Shawn Thomson's The Fortress of American Solitude is useful. More specifically, for Melville scholars, the second, third, and fourth chapters provide some interesting insight into possible readings for how Defoe's novel-and the castaway genre in general-may have influenced Melville's call to sea and the penning of some of his most interesting characters.
Author : Neil Hanson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446421963
On 5 July 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from Southampton bound for Sydney. Halfway through their projected one hundred and twenty day voyage, Captain Tom Dudley and his crew of three men were beset by a monstrous storm off the coast of Africa. After four days of battling towering waves and hurricane gales, their yacht was finally crushed by a ferocious forty foot wave. The survivors were cast adrift a thousand miles from the nearest landfall in an open thirteen foot dinghy without provisions, water or shelter from the scorching sun. When, after twenty four days, they were finally rescued by a passing yacht, the Moctezuma, only three men were left and they were in an appalling condition. The ordeal that they endured and the trial which followed their eventual return to England held the whole nation - from the lowliest ship's deckhand to Queen Victoria herself - spellbound during the following winter. This is the true story of the voyage and the subsequent court case which outlawed for ever a practice followed since men first put to the ocean in boats: the custom of the sea.
Author : Michael Titlestad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030870416
Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of two centuries and their legacies. Michael Titlestad points to a range of narrative conventions, literary tropes and questions concerning representation and its limits in narratives about these historic shipwrecks. The second part engages novels, poems, films, artwork, and musical composition that grapple with shipwreck. Collectively the chapters suggest the spectacular productivity of shipwreck narrative; the multiple ways in which its concerns and logic have inspired anxious creativity in the last century. Titlestad recognizes in weaving in his personal experience that shipwreck—the destruction of form and the advent of disorder—could be seen not only as a corollary for his own neurological disorder, but also an abiding principle in tropology. This book describes how shipwreck has figured in texts (from historical narratives to fiction, film and music) as an analogue for emotional, psychological, and physical fragmentation.
Author : Lyle Saxon
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 145560416X
As Lyle Saxon writes in his introduction: "This book is not a history of the Mississippi River in the strict sense of the word, although I have outlined the discovery, the exploration, and the settlement of the valley�but this volume is like a scrap-book in which I have collected men�s thoughts, my own thoughts. These incidents seem to me informative, or amusing, or terrible, or tragic, or fantastic, but they are all a part of the living pageant which moved down the river through the changing years." First published in 1927, Father Mississippi contains accounts of those who lived their lives along the Mississippi River, and documents the first ripple in a wave of tremendous changes that took place in its environment. Over 70 years later, Father Mississippi still stands as an important history of the floods of 1927, most often remembered for their far-reaching impact on the cities along the Mississippi River, and the devastation they caused to towns in the southern Mississippi River Valley region. The accounts provide easy reading while acquainting the audience with characters such as Father Hennepin and Molly Glass, the murderess, who speak in their own words. Photos of life along the river and of the floods accompany these captivating excerpts.
Author : Edward E. Leslie
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0395911508
Explores the lives of survivors who were shipwrecked, banished, or abandoned during the past several centuries.
Author : Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2573449
Author : Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : HARVARD:HNKL1C
Author : Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
ISBN : UIUC:30112042681442