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Author : John Jacob Puthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Coasts
ISBN : 8190307908
Author : Kalee Thompson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061991172
Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its finest. The full story of an amazing rescue—where extraordinary courage, ingenuity, will, and technology combined in one of the most remarkable maritime feats ever recorded—has never been told before now. It’s The Perfect Storm meets Deadliest Catch.
Author : Matthew Mitchell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781449044411
While the Coast Guards many battles at sea in the War on Drugs are widely known, its participation in the ground offensive is not. Indeed, the Guard didnt just send its cutters to interdict narcotics-laden vessels attempting to bring their illicit cargo into Uncle Sams territorial waters, it sent ground troops to foreign lands to train their forces and, when necessary, directly engage the enemy. But to create the type of force needed was no small task and would not be without tribulation, both from within and outside the organization. The road traveled to complete the mission was laden with obstacles. This is not a story about the Coast Guard you know, or think you know. Rather, this is a story about the other side, the side that history nearly forgot; not the standard, but the antithesis of standard. It is a story that will undoubtedly make even the most seasoned Coast Guardsmen question their understanding of the organization to which they belong. To be sure, This is not your fathers Coast Guard.
Author : Alex Larzelere
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052663047
Author : John Puthur
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1482531550
It is the first and the only book of its kind about the coast. It is intended to change the way the world understands the coast. The coast is already in a mess, world over. That is an ample proof that it has not been correctly understood yet. Despite more than a century of scientific scrutiny, coast has remained an enigma, unknown, largely because of the practical difficulties in studying it. Much of today's coastal knowledge has stemmed from visual estimations, actually optical illusions, and from studies on hydraulic models, the models of the coast complete with water, with simulated waves or tides. The models, despite being hugely popular with the experts, do not correctly replicate the coastal processes. But they do not even think so, even though, quite consistently, ports and naval bases designed after elaborate field and laboratory studies have been silting up, besides adversely affecting the coast in their vicinity. Even the coastal and inland projects, like coastal roads and dams, have adversely affected the coast. Coastal erosion is therefore rampant, world over. The ominous aspect is, once it sets in, coastal erosion is almost unstoppable. Seawalls and groynes, the most common remedies, hardly work. But why, the book will answer. Siltation in ports, on the other hand, needs environmentally disastrous maintenance dredging, perennially. This book not only makes clear the working of the coast, but also explains in simple everyday language how the nature's elements - winds and waves, tides and tidal stream and rains and runoff - drive the coastal processes. Even though everyone knows that winds make waves at sea, it has not yet been established how that really happens. This book solves that longstanding puzzle. In addition, it dispels many wave and wind myths that masquerade as scientific theories. Many popular theories in coastal science are only myths. However, the real science of the coast is simple, so simple that one need not be a scientist to know the coast. This book is therefore meant for anyone, who enjoys his or her time on the coast. It aims to create a new awareness about the coast. Only a story can change the prevalent mindset. So, this is a story-The Untold Story of a Coast. It is not a textbook on coastal science. Nevertheless, it will make it quite necessary to revise the textbooks on coastal science and engineering, including oceanography and meteorology. Though the story deals mainly with the happenings on the Indian Coast, which also happens to be one of the most dynamic coasts in the world, the inferences are valid for any coast in the world. Every coast in the world works the same way, only the degree of dynamism varies depending on the intensity of nature's elements at work on the coast. This book is meant not merely to arouse academic interest in the coast, but has a larger purpose. Coast happens to be the most populous region in the world, with more than half the world's population being coast dependent, for livelihood and residence. It is also the most favoured holiday and picnic destination. Besides, in these recent times, it has been attracting huge investments for infrastructure projects, which are, more often than not, cleared with scant regard to the real coastal processes. Impact on the coast will be unmistakably disastrous. Many may soon be rendered homeless, and many more with no place for sun, sand and sea. This book hopes to make it possible to protect and preserve the coast for the coming generations. They deserve good sandy beaches, not seawalls and groynes! It also will make it possible to design coast-friendly projects. Read it. Explore the coast. You too may stumble on the truth that you can believe. All you need to be is curious. Incidentally, curiosity is the mother of science! I hope this book will arouse your curiosity, better still, the child in you to further explore the marvel called coast. There is still lot more to learn about it.
Author : Matthew Mitchell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drug control
ISBN : 9781449044398
While the Coast Guard's many battles at sea in the War on Drugs are widely known, its participation in the ground offensive is not. Indeed, the Guard didn't just send its cutters to interdict narcotics-laden vessels attempting to bring their illicit cargo into Uncle Sam's territorial waters, it sent ground troops to foreign lands to train their forces and, when necessary, directly engage the enemy. But to create the type of force needed was no small task and would not be without tribulation, both from within and outside the organization. The road traveled to complete the mission was laden with obstacles. This is not a story about the Coast Guard you know, or think you know. Rather, this is a story about the other side, the side that history nearly forgot; not the standard, but the antithesis of standard. It is a story that will undoubtedly make even the most seasoned Coast Guardsmen question their understanding of the organization to which they belong. To be sure, "This is not your father's Coast Guard."
Author : John M. MacFarlane,Lynn J. Salmon
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550178807
Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England, weathering heavy gales at sea and attracting large crowds of spectators on shore. The austere on-board conditions and simple navigational equipment Voss used throughout the voyage are a testimony to his skill and to the solid construction of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth vessel. Both Voss and his original mate, newspaperman N.K. Luxton, later wrote about their journey in accounts compromised by poor memories, brazen egos and outright lies. Stories of murder, cannibalism and high-seas terror have been repeated elsewhere without any regard to the truth. Now, over a century later, a full and fair account of the voyage—and the magnitude of Voss’s accomplishment—is at last fully detailed. In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, critically examining the claims of Voss’s and Luxton’s manuscripts against research from libraries, archives, museums and primary sources around the world. Including unpublished photographs, letters and ephemera from the voyage, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure, sheer luck and at times tragedy.
Author : Jacques LesStrang
Publisher : Seattle, Wash. : Superior Publishing Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Nature
ISBN : UVA:35007004704858
Author : Dave Shively
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493026821
In the summer of 1987 Ed Gillet achieved what no person has accomplished before or since, a solo crossing from California to Hawaii by kayak. Gillet, at the age of 36 an accomplished sailor and paddler, navigated by sextant and always knew his position within a few miles. Still, Gillet underestimated the abuse his body would take from the relentless, pounding, swells of the Pacific, and early into his voyage he was covered with salt water sores and found that he could find no comfortable position for sitting or sleeping. Along the way he endured a broken rudder, among other calamities, but at last reached Maui on his 63rd day at sea, four days after his food had run out. Dave Shively brings Gillet’s remarkable story to life in this gripping narrative, based on exclusive access to Gillet’s logs as well as interviews with the legendary paddler himself.
Author : Amanda M. Fairbanks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982103248
"[A] riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island--a "fishing town with a drinking problem," as the locals have it--and the stunning repercussions of that loss for the families and friends of the four missing men and, indeed, the entire storied summer community of the Hamptons"--
Author : Ben Westhoff
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780316344869
"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era." -- Kirkus, starred review A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur. Amid rising gang violence, the crack epidemic, and police brutality, a group of unlikely voices cut through the chaos of late 1980s Los Angeles: N.W.A. Led by a drug dealer, a glammed-up producer, and a high school kid, N.W.A gave voice to disenfranchised African Americans across the country. And they quickly redefined pop culture across the world. Their names remain as popular as ever -- Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube. Dre soon joined forces with Suge Knight to create the combustible Death Row Records, which in turn transformed Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur into superstars. Ben Westhoff explores how this group of artists shifted the balance of hip-hop from New York to Los Angeles. He shows how N.W.A.'s shocking success lead to rivalries between members, record labels, and eventually a war between East Coast and West Coast factions. In the process, hip-hop burst into mainstream America at a time of immense social change, and became the most dominant musical movement of the last thirty years. At gangsta rap's peak, two of its biggest names -- Tupac and Biggie Smalls -- were murdered, leaving the surviving artists to forge peace before the genre annihilated itself. Featuring extensive investigative reporting, interviews with the principal players, and dozens of never-before-told stories, Original Gangstas is a groundbreaking addition to the history of popular music.
Author : Monica Ali
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471100093
She was the most famous woman in the world. She died tragically, too young, in a terrible accident. The world mourned. Monica Ali, the beloved author of Brick Lane, explores the extraordinary question: what if she hadn't died? Lydia lives in a nondescript town somewhere in the American Midwest. She's a nice, normal woman - if strikingly beautiful. She lives a nice, normal life: her friends are normal, her job is normal, her hobbies are normal. Her friends and boyfriend adore her. But her past is shrouded in mystery. Who is Lydia? Where does she come from? And why is her English accent so posh? Lydia is a woman with secrets. Extraordinary secrets. She might even be the most famous woman on the planet... a woman whose death the world mourned by millions. Who is she? *~*~* Praise for Untold Story*~*~* 'A beautiful, gripping accomplishment, a treat for the heart and the head, and will be a joy to readers who believe in the possibility that a book can transform your basic sense of life' Andrew O'Hagan 'A terrific, clever, multi-layered and subtle book (and let's not forget - hugely entertaining)' Joanne Harris 'Haunting and intensely readable, this is something between a thriller and a ghost story' Lady Antonia Fraser 'A startlingly intelligent, perceptive and entertaining piece of fiction. It's quite brilliant' Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror 'Thoughtful, compassionate... a suspenseful and gripping read' Suzi Feay, Financial Times 'Ali's third-person princess is a very convincing and sympathetic figure... extremely skilfully done' Tibor Fischer, Observer
Author : Daniel Rasmussen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062084354
A gripping and deeply revealing history of an infamous slave rebellion that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of American history In January 1811, five hundred slaves, dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose up from the plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city. Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this self-made army challenged not only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also American expansion. Their march represented the largest act of armed resistance against slavery in the history of the United States. American Uprising is the riveting and long-neglected story of this elaborate plot, the rebel army's dramatic march on the city, and its shocking conclusion. No North American slave uprising—not Gabriel Prosser's, not Denmark Vesey's, not Nat Turner's—has rivaled the scale of this rebellion either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or the number who were killed. More than one hundred slaves were slaughtered by federal troops and French planters, who then sought to write the event out of history and prevent the spread of the slaves' revolutionary philosophy. With the Haitian revolution a recent memory and the War of 1812 looming on the horizon, the revolt had epic consequences for America. Through groundbreaking original research, Daniel Rasmussen offers a window into the young, expansionist country, illuminating the early history of New Orleans and providing new insight into the path to the Civil War and the slave revolutionaries who fought and died for justice and the hope of freedom.
Author : David Helvarg
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429989534
Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million people. On any given day, "Coasties" respond to 125 distress calls and save over a dozen lives. Yet despite having more than 50,000 active-duty and reserve members on every ocean and on our nation's coasts, great lakes, and rivers, most of us know very little about this often neglected but crucial branch of the military. In Rescue Warriors, award-winning journalist David Helvarg brings us into the daily lives of Coasties, filled with a salty maritime mix of altruism and adrenaline, as well as dozens of death-defying rescues at sea and on hurricane-ravaged shores. Helvarg spent two years with the men and women of the Coast Guard, from the halls of their academy in New London, Connecticut, to the frigid, storm-tossed waters of Alaska's Bering Sea, to the northern Persian Gulf, where they currently guard Iraqi oil terminals. The result is a masterpiece of adventure reporting---the definitive book on America's "forgotten heroes."
Author : Tonio Andrade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691159577
How a Chinese pirate defeated European colonialists and won Taiwan during the seventeenth century During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War—Europe's first war with China—the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and captured one of their largest and richest colonies—Taiwan. How did he do it? Examining the strengths and weaknesses of European and Chinese military techniques during the period, Lost Colony provides a balanced new perspective on long-held assumptions about Western power, Chinese might, and the nature of war. It has traditionally been asserted that Europeans of the era possessed more advanced science, technology, and political structures than their Eastern counterparts, but historians have recently contested this view, arguing that many parts of Asia developed on pace with Europe until 1800. While Lost Colony shows that the Dutch did indeed possess a technological edge thanks to the Renaissance fort and the broadside sailing ship, that edge was neutralized by the formidable Chinese military leadership. Thanks to a rich heritage of ancient war wisdom, Koxinga and his generals outfoxed the Dutch at every turn. Exploring a period when the military balance between Europe and China was closer than at any other point in modern history, Lost Colony reassesses an important chapter in world history and offers valuable and surprising lessons for contemporary times.