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Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Moshulu (Four-masted bark)
ISBN : NWU:35556008916595
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0330700499
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Seafaring life
ISBN : UOM:39015022630928
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : Academy Chicago Publishers
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0586051171
A seafaring tale of the first order, The Last Grain Race captures the drama and excitement of the last great commercial fleet under canvas. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Biancardo Maurizio
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398441958
Jon’s paradisiac world is soon to be destroyed as simply as a child puffing upon a perfect dandelion seed head. It is set to be one of his life’s testing moments that we all have experienced at one time or another in our own lifetime. Jon travels to all four corners of our globe, even to the moon. He encounters men, women, and children from all religions and all walks of life from the biggest city to the smallest remote village within less than one of Earth’s years. During this time Jon also coexists with every animal, insect and aquatic world teaching him our planet’s strengths and weakness. His unique knowledge and gift to be channelled to every living human being. Giving him a chance to choose, do and wish not only for ourselves but for another. The questions remain. What would you choose? What would you do? What would you wish?
Author : A.J. Villiers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1113694160
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780007508150
This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.
Author : William F. Stark
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786740055
In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780007508204
'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice.
Author : Eric Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780007392766
This outstanding collection of pieces, illustrated with his own superb photographs, is a unique record of Newby’s travels all over the globe – and a lasting tribute to lost and fading worlds.
Author : Fitzroy MaClean
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241973257
Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould . . .
Author : Charles W. Domvillefife
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473818491
There are few books that describe accurately life on board sailing ships in the last days of sail, from the 1860s to the First World War; the romantic image conjured up by many who wrote from a safe distance belies the harsh realities which were a sailorman's lot. Domville-Fife, in collecting together the personal stories of seamen while they were still alive, was able to present a truer picture of the tough last days of sail. Long voyages on board nineteenth-century sailing ships were marked by isolation, boredom, and miserable living conditions that taxed the endurance of men already hard pressed by the gruelling and dangerous nature of shipboard work. While some were attracted to a life of adventure most simply went to sea for a living, and a meagre one at that. They experienced neither the excitement of life on the crack clippers of the earlier decades nor the safety of the steamships; they were caught in the limbo of a dying profession where poor pay, discontinuous employment, prolonged isolation from family and physical hardship were the norm. No wonder that murder, mutiny, starvation and shipwreck appear in the memoirs gathered here. Domville-Fife surely did future generations a great service by piecing together this reality. First published in 1938, these memoirs are now available again in this superbly presented new edition with a new selection of stunning photographs and a fascinating introduction on life at sea in the dying world of sail. A wonderful read for all enthusiasts and historians of the merchant service in the days of sail.
Author : Michael N. Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134609598
In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast ocean, both connecting and separating nations, has shaped many countries' cultures and ideologies through the movement of goods, people, ideas and religions across the sea. The Indian Ocean moves from a discussion of physical elements, its shape, winds, currents and boundaries, to a history from pre-Islamic times to the modern period of European dominance. Going far beyond pure maritime history, this compelling survey is an invaluable addition to political, cultural and economic world history.
Author : Patrick Ahern
Publisher : Patrick Ahern
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780980515503
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Author : Stewart Gordon
Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611685404
Roman triremes of the Mediterranean. The treasure fleet of the Spanish Main. Great ocean liners of the Atlantic. Stories of disasters at sea fire the imagination as little else can, whether the subject is a historical wreck - the Titanic or the Bismark - or the recent capsizing of a Mediterranean cruise ship. Shipwrecks also make for a new and very different understanding of world history. A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks explores the ages-long, immensely hazardous, persistently romantic, and still-ongoing process of moving people and goods across far-flung maritime worlds. Telling the stories of ships and the people who made and sailed them, from the earliest ancient-Nile craft to the Exxon Valdez, A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks argues that the gradual integration of localized and separate maritime regions into fewer, larger, and more interdependent regions offers a unique window on world history. Stewart Gordon draws a number of provocative conclusions from his study, among them that the European "Age of Exploration" as a singular event is simply a myth - many cultures, east and west, explored far-flung maritime worlds over the millennia - and that technologies of shipbuilding and navigation have been among the main drivers of science and technology throughout history. Finally, A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks shows in a series of compelling narratives that the development of institutions and technologies that made terrifying oceans familiar, and turned unknown seas into sea-lanes, profoundly matters in our modern world.