The Perilous Catch

Author : Mike Smylie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958165

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The Perilous Catch by Mike Smylie Pdf

For centuries Britain's commercial fishermen have ventured out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring fish back both to supply a home market and for export around the world. Fishing is one of history's most dangerous jobs, and when disasters occur they can affect whole communities: in 1872 some 129 men were lost in one night alone. Fishermen have lost their lives because of extreme weather, fishing gear entanglement, lack of emergency support and often simply by falling overboard. Today, commercial fishing remains one of the most perilous occupations and still claims the lives of fishermen each year, leaving their families behind. The Perilous Catch is a well-researched, comprehensive and poignant history of the fishing industry written by maritime historian Mike Smylie.

Author : Ivor Kovac
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796081169

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Adventure in the Perilous World of the Torus by Ivor Kovac Pdf

Gary Williams was a retired doctor, twice divorced, angry and embittered, with fewer days ahead than behind. With no children, and much of his life’s work taken away, Gary finds solace in hunting and fishing. He resigns himself to ever-increasing discontent, followed by death. But when the moment comes and the darkness wraps around him, instead of dying he revives in another world. Gary finds himself renewed and invigorated, but alone in a strange world full of unknown wild animals, a multitude of alien races, and hostile natives who are technologically stagnate. Gary must use all his skills and wits to learn the rules of the new world, and carve out a place for himself in it.

Author : Edward Grace
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844155606

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The Perilous Road to Rome and beyond by Edward Grace Pdf

The author fought with the 6th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders during the campaigns of 1st Army in Tunisia and in Italy thereafter. As a young platoon commander he and his men were in the thick of the fighting. Wounded during the desperate action at Anzio, he wrote notes of all that had happened in exact detail and the result is a memoir both fresh and authentic. This is one of the most gripping memoirs we have published, on a par with Geoffrey Powell's Men At Arnhem The author also describes the actions of other regiments, particularly the Guards Brigade at Anzio, and US units, alongside whom he fought. In the closing stages of the book he shares his post-conflict experiences and convalescence with the reader in a moving way.

Author : Larry E. Morris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442211124

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The Perilous West by Larry E. Morris Pdf

Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark's safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn - Ramsay Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion. These seven counted the Tetons, Hells Canyon, and South Pass among their discoveries. More importantly, they forged the Oregon Trail-a path destined to link the Atlantic coast with the Pacific, spurring national expansion as it carried trappers, soldiers, pioneers, missionaries, and gold-seekers westward. The Perilous West begins in 1806, when Crooks and McClellan meet Lewis and Clark, and the vast expanse from the Dakotas to the Pacific coast appears a commercial paradise. The story ends in 1814, when a band of French Canadian trappers rescue Marie Dorion, and even John Jacob Astor's well-financed enterprise has ended in violence and chaos, placing the protagonists squarely in the context of Thomas Jefferson's monumental opening of the West, which stalled with the War of 1812.

Author : George Henry Procter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Fisheries
ISBN : BL:A0026139183

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The Fisheries of Gloucester from the First Catch by the English in 1623, to the Centennial Year, 1876 by George Henry Procter Pdf

Author : Mansel G. Blackford
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812206272

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Making Seafood Sustainable by Mansel G. Blackford Pdf

In the spring of 2007, National Geographic warned, "The oceans are in deep blue trouble. From the northernmost reaches of the Greenland Sea to the swirl of the Antarctic Circle, we are gutting our seas of fish." There were legitimate grounds for concern. After increasing more than fourfold between 1950 and 1994, the global wild fish catch reached a plateau and stagnated despite exponential growth in the fishing industry. As numerous scientific reports showed, many fish stocks around the world collapsed, creating a genuine global overfishing crisis. Making Seafood Sustainable analyzes the ramifications of overfishing for the United States by investigating how fishers, seafood processors, retailers, government officials, and others have worked together to respond to the crisis. Historian Mansel G. Blackford examines how these players took steps to make fishing in some American waters, especially in Alaskan waters, sustainable. Critical to these efforts, Blackford argues, has been government and industry collaboration in formulating and enforcing regulations. What can be learned from these successful experiences? Are they applicable elsewhere? What are the drawbacks? Making Seafood Sustainable addresses these questions and suggests that sustainable seafood management can be made to work. The economic and social costs incurred in achieving sustainable resource usage are significant, but there are ways to mitigate them. More broadly, this study illustrates ways to manage commonly held natural resources around the world—land, water, oil, and so on—in sustainable ways.

Author : Mike Smylie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750999205

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Voices from the Shoreline by Mike Smylie Pdf

For generations, coastal fishermen, working at the very fringe between land and sea, have fished salmon and herring using methods passed down from father to son. Some of these ancient traditions have been traced back as far as the days when the men from Scandinavia colonised these lands in the eighth and ninth centuries; others are simply nineteenth century in origin. Sadly, in recent years stocks have dwindled and regulations limit local fishing practices. Today, some surviving methods, such as haaf-netting, are in danger of dying out, whilst other traditional fisheries now lie abandoned. Though herring stocks have recovered from their late twentieth-century decline, the Atlantic salmon is now under immense threat and more danger of extinction than ever before. Tracing and describing his own journey from North Devon, through Wales and up to the top of Scotland, along with interviews with many fishermen, both retired and working, Mike Smylie explores the social history of these indigenous fishing traditions and communities, presenting a picture of their lives, past, present and future.

Author : Kenneth Gross
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226819785

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Dangerous Children by Kenneth Gross Pdf

Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction. Ranging from Victorian to modern works—Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, Henry James’s What Maisie Knew, J. M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, Franz Kafka’s “The Cares of a Family Man,” Richard Hughes’s A High Wind in Jamaica, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita—Kenneth Gross’s book delves into stories that center around the figure of a strange and dangerous child. Whether written for adults or child readers, or both at once, these stories all show us odd, even frightening visions of innocence. We see these children’s uncanny powers of speech, knowledge, and play, as well as their nonsense and violence. And, in the tales, these child-lives keep changing shape. These are children who are often endangered as much as dangerous, haunted as well as haunting. They speak for lost and unknown childhoods. In looking at these narratives, Gross traces the reader’s thrill of companionship with these unpredictable, often solitary creatures—children curious about the adult world, who while not accommodating its rules, fall into ever more troubling conversations with adult fears and desires. This book asks how such imaginary children, objects of wonder, challenge our ways of seeing the world, our measures of innocence and experience, and our understanding of time and memory.

Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600067305

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The Three Lieutenants by William Henry Giles Kingston Pdf

Author : Rebekah S. Peery
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780875866437

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Nietzsche, Philosopher of the Perilous Perhaps by Rebekah S. Peery Pdf

Friedrich Nietzsche's notoriety is most often associated with his perspectives on, and interpretations of, Christianity. Here, the author "unmasks" the great essayist as he surreptitiously and cleverly proceeds to expose the destructive power of Christianity on Western culture (and hence the world). As we face a rapidly growing specter of religious turmoil and threat on the international scene, this timely study provides an overview of Friedrich Nietzsche's positions and ideas about the Church and about power more broadly.

Author : Ryan Tucker Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226628851

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Red Leviathan by Ryan Tucker Jones Pdf

Russia's Whale Problem -- The Whales of Distant Seas -- A Revolution in Whaling -- North Pacific Numbers -- War and Glory in the Antarctic -- Aleksei Solyanik and the End of Area V -- The Kollektiv and the Long Ruble -- The Cetacean Genocide -- Scientists Locate Their Prey -- Whales in the Home -- A Whale Is Not a Fish: Back to the North Pacific -- Greenpeace and the View from the Dal'nii Vostok.

Author : W.H.G Kingston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752368710

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The Three Lieutenants by W.H.G Kingston Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Three Lieutenants by W.H.G Kingston

Author : Sarah Courtauld
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250080158

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Buckle and Squash: The Perilous Princess Plot by Sarah Courtauld Pdf

This funny fairy-tale adventure from debut author Sarah Courtald is the story of two very different sisters-Eliza, who longs to ride into battle against villains and dragons, and Lavender, who would give anything to be a pampered princess. Before the end of the story both of them have had a chance to fulfill their dreams, though not quite in the way they intended... Accompanied by their depressed goat, Gertrude, with their granny's warnings about the Black Death ringing in their ears, they head out into the forest and come face to face with an evil count who definitely does not have their best interests at heart. Buckle and Squash: The Perilous Princess Plot was the winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award for Fiction Ages 5-9

Author : Elizabeth Marie Pope
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0618150730

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The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope Pdf

In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that leads to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.

Author : Pamela B. Baker,Felix G. Cox,Peter M. Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fishery management
ISBN : UCSD:31822027768001

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Managing the Gulf of Mexico Commercial Red Snapper Fishery by Pamela B. Baker,Felix G. Cox,Peter M. Emerson Pdf