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Author : Leonard George Carr Laughton,Roger Charles Anderson,William Gordon Perrin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132686648
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : UOM:39015071091824
Author : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Albatrosses
ISBN : BL:A0026185620
Author : A. G. E. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043393375
A collection of papers from books and journals on polar and maritime subjects, particularly whaling, gathered by A.G.E. Jones over many decades.
Author : Basil Greenhill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1932846190
This work touches on the specialized world of wooden-ship building, looking at the endless variations of techniques from country to country, region to region, and over the course of history.
Author : Roger Barrett (Local historian)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Sailing ships
ISBN : 1527218511
Author : Justin Cronin
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385669566
The wait is finally over for the third and final installment in The Passage trilogy, called "a The Stand-meets-The Road journey" by Entertainment Weekly. In the wake of the battle against The Twelve, Amy and her friends have gone in different directions. Peter has joined the settlement at Kerrville, Texas, ascending in its ranks despite his ambivalence about its ideals. Alicia has ventured into enemy territory, half-mad and on the hunt for the viral called Zero, who speaks to her in dreams. Amy has vanished without a trace. With The Twelve destroyed, the citizens of Kerrville are moving on with life, settling outside the city limits, certain that at last the world is safe enough. But the gates of Kerrville will soon shudder with the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and Amy--the Girl from Nowhere, the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years--will once more join her friends to face down the demon who has torn their world apart . . . and to at last confront their destinies.
Author : Aidan Dodson,Serena Cant
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526742001
While a large number of books have dealt with the navies and war at sea during the World Wars, the immediate aftermaths have generally received only minimal coverage. However, the fates of defeated navies are of enormous interest from a number of perspectives. These include the relative priorities of the victorious powers, acquisition and testing of ex-enemy materiel and the intended future capabilities of those ex-enemy navies that were to be allowed to continue to exist. This new book traces the histories of navies and ships of the defeated powers from the months leading up to the relevant armistices or surrenders through to the final execution of the appropriate post-war settlements. In doing so, it discusses the way in which the victorious powers reached their final demands, how these were implemented, and to what effect. The later histories of ships that saw subsequent service, either in their original navies or in those navies which acquired them, are also described. In doing this, much use is made of material drawn from archival, and in some cases archaeological, sources, some of which has never previously been used. Through these, a wide range of long-standing myths are busted, and some badly distorted modern views and assessments of events in the wake of the conflicts put right. The fascinating narrative will be accompanied by tabulated lists of all major navy-built (and certain significant ex-mercantile) enemy ships in commission at the relevant date of the armistice or surrender, or whose hulks were specifically listed for attention in post-Second World War allied agreements. These will include key dates in their careers and their ultimate fates. This highly original book, drawing on archaeological evidence as well as archival sources, and including numerous photographs will become an essential reference tool for all those interested in the naval history of the two World Wars.
Author : Eduardo Galeano
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786744701
Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism." Mirrors, Galeano's most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: "Official history has it that Vasco Núde Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??" Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.
Author : Henning Hillmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231542661
Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local networks that linked commerce and conflict in early modern Europe. Hillmann traces the development of Saint-Malo and the social structure of its merchant elite from the 1680s through the onset of the French Revolution. He pinpoints the role of privateering, showing how it enabled local merchant communities to secure their hold on established trades, seize new opportunities, and withstand the threats of armed conflict. In wartime, rulers commissioned ship-owning traders to fit out vessels as corsairs to raid enemy shipping. Within a mercantilist worldview, this state-sanctioned private war at sea aligned the interests of local elites and the royal government. Locally, within Saint-Malo, the partnerships that merchant elites formed in their privateering ventures gave rise to a cohesive network that held their community together amid outside conflicts. Combining rich descriptions of privateering campaigns with quantitative network analysis of partnership ties over more than a century, The Corsairs of Saint-Malo offers a new understanding of the local organizational foundations of early modern capitalist development.
Author : C. J. Cherryh
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 0345384768
Things weren't right in the little kingdom of Maggiar, so the princes Bogdan and Tamas set off to seek an answer to the kingdom's troubles in the world over the mountain, a world they knew only from legends. But that glorious place was great no more. The goblins had declared war, and no one--especially not visitors were safe from the raging battles, the darkest sorcery, and the evil that roamed the land....
Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192598523
England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a dramatic story of sieges and battles, pirates and shipwrecks, prisoners and prophets, as kings and commoners negotiated the political, military, religious, and administrative demands of the early modern state. The Channel Islands, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly, the Isle of Man, Lundy, Holy Island and others emerge as important offshore outposts that long remained strange, separate, and perversely independent. England's islands were difficult to govern, and were prone to neglect, yet their strategic value far outweighed their size. Though vulnerable to foreign threats, their harbours and castles served as forward bases of English power. In civil war they were divided and contested, fought over and occupied. Jersey and the Isles of Scilly served as refuges for royalists on the run. Charles I was held on the Isle of Wight. External authority was sometimes light of touch, as English governments used the islands as fortresses, commercial assets, and political prisons. London was often puzzled by the linguistic differences, tangled histories, and special claims of island communities. Though increasingly integrated within the realm, the islands maintained challenging peculiarities and distinctive characteristics. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and the insights of maritime, military, and legal scholarship, this is an original contribution to social, cultural, and constitutional history.
Author : Jim Howe
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682473023
Red Crew is a first-hand account of U.S. Coast Guard anti-smuggling operations during the early years of the nation’s maritime war on drugs. Jim Howe describes his experience as the executive officer of a specialized drug-hunting crew that sailed in then-state-of-the-art “surface effect ships,” a small flotilla of high-speed vessels pressed into the drug war on short notice. In the early 1980s, South Florida and the Caribbean were awash in illicit drugs, with hundreds of smuggling organizations bringing huge loads of marijuana, and later cocaine, into the United States. To fight this epidemic, the Reagan administration led a massive effort to disrupt shore-side gangs while bolstering interdiction activity at sea. To increase the number of days at sea for each surface effect ship, a “multi-crewing” concept was employed, with four teams of sixteen sailors—the Red, Blue, Green, and Gold Crews—rotating among three hulls. Through its first-person narrative, Red Crew offers a rare glimpse into the day-to-day pressures, challenges, failures, and successes of Coast Guard cuttermen as they carried out complex and dangerous missions. Red Crew provides a unique historical view of the early days in the Coast Guard’s war on drugs, and is the only book-length history of the diminutive, one-of-a-kind surface effect ship fleet.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN : IND:30000081086799
Author : Anton Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022785989