Voices From The Lower Deck

Author : Monique Layton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1525562487

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Voices from the Lower Deck by Monique Layton Pdf

Voices from the Lower Deck examines the role of folklore as the instrument of integration and bonding for the ordinary seafarer during the Age of Sail. Mainly based on contemporary sailors narratives and historical and folkloric texts, the book evokes common themes: the harsh environment, the cruel discipline, the brutal way of life, and the release of onshore carousing and whoring, but also the coordinated work and effort of daily tasks and the tremendous pride of seeing themselves as unique men against a background of landlubbers. The psychological and physical survival of these disparate men from many origins depended on their rapid integration into the common culture--the folklore and the folkways--of what historians have called "the wooden world."...

Author : Samuel Leech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044051062156

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Thirty Years from Home, Or A Voice from the Main Deck by Samuel Leech Pdf

Author : Monique Layton
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525562495

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Voices from the Lower Deck by Monique Layton Pdf

Voices from the Lower Deck examines the role of folklore as the instrument of integration and bonding for the ordinary seafarer during the Age of Sail. Mainly based on contemporary sailors narratives and historical and folkloric texts, the book evokes common themes: the harsh environment, the cruel discipline, the brutal way of life, and the release of onshore carousing and whoring, but also the coordinated work and effort of daily tasks and the tremendous pride of seeing themselves as unique men against a background of landlubbers. The psychological and physical survival of these disparate men from many origins depended on their rapid integration into the common culture––the folklore and the folkways––of what historians have called “the wooden world.”

Author : Samuel LEECH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021961538

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Thirty Years from Home; or, a Voice from the main deck ... With notes by Ebenezer Collins by Samuel LEECH Pdf

Author : Hannah Holman
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781445607337

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Titanic Voices by Hannah Holman Pdf

Paperback edition of Amberley's bestselling title of 2012. Collects together unabridged, all the major substantial first-hand accounts of the sinking of the Titanic.

Author : B. Lavery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000152715

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Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815 by B. Lavery Pdf

The idea behind this volume, according to its editor Brian Lavery, was to give a rounded picture of life at sea during the age of sail. It concentrates on the daily routine of shipboard life rather than more dramatic events such as battles and mutiny. It supplements other volumes produced by the Navy Records Society, notably Five Naval Journals 1789-1817 (vol 91, 1951, ed H G Thursfield) and The Health of Seamen (vol 107, 1965, ed C C Lloyd.) The selection begins in the second quarter of the eighteenth century because, stated Brian Lavery, ‘there are no suitable documents from earlier periods’ and closes in 1815, when the navy entered a new era with the advent of steam and a long period of peace. One of the most important aspects of shipboard life was that it was intensely self-contained, especially in the later part of the age of sail. After the conquest of scurvy, ships were able to stay at sea for many months at a time and the world-wide battle for empire caused them to make very long voyages, often away from their home bases over a period of years. Even in port seamen often stayed on board and shore leave was not in any sense a right. This volume throws a spotlight on the way in which a crew of up to 850 men could be crammed into a small space for many months at a time, and the ways in which they were fed, clothed, allocated space for eating and sleeping, at the same time as they were organised for sailing and battle duties. It contains separate sections dealing with Admiralty Regulations, Captain’s Orders, Medical Journals, discipline and punishment. It also includes an extensive glossary of the nautical terms and descriptions of the time.

Author : Philip MacDougall,Ann Veronica Coats
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843836698

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The Naval Mutinies of 1797 by Philip MacDougall,Ann Veronica Coats Pdf

The naval mutinies of 1797 were unprecedented in scale and impressive in their level of organisation. This volume focuses on new research, re-evaluating the causes and events which led to the seamen's revolts.

Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783385523647

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The Albatross. Or, Voices from the Ocean. A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston Pdf

Author : Stephanie Devlin
Publisher : Stamford House Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Missionaries
ISBN : 9781904985648

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Did I Hear the Voice of God? by Stephanie Devlin Pdf

Provides an anecdotal account of the work of the Leamington Spa Mission, who take care of the down and out, homeless and needy people of the town. This book tells of the impact of God's love through life-changing encounters with the needy. It highlights humour, even in dire situations and triumph in the most desperate of circumstances.

Author : Australia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023185491

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A Voice from the Bush in Australia: shewing its present state, advantages, and capabilities, in a series of letters from an Irish settler and others in New South Wales. With appendices, etc by Australia Pdf

Author : William Gamble
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462877706

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Cave of Voices by William Gamble Pdf

Aeron Kline is your usual 15-year old amnesia victim. After waking up in the hospital, with the past two years of his memory missing Aeron is plagued with mysterious visions and a vague voice that warns him with the words This is your second chance, make the most of it. With no way to regain his lost past he pushes on with his life. But it would seem that fate has a different plan for Aeron when a year later he begins to see mysterious strangers that begin to trigger more of the visions, and to make things even stranger he comes face to face with the urban legend of his hometown. The skeleton man Everet- who is somehow connected to his missing memories- and who awakens a dormant power inside Aeron. Now, with his newfound powers Aeron Kline must fight for his missing fragments and possibly something greater; the fate of an entire world.

Author : Martyn Beardsley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445619903

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Waterloo Voices 1815 by Martyn Beardsley Pdf

Explore the history of the Battle of Waterloo through the voices of those that experienced it first hand.

Author : United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN : MINN:30000004048363

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Federal Aviation Regulations by United States. Federal Aviation Administration Pdf

Author : Devorah Knaff
Publisher : Santa Ana River Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0974763829

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The City's Voice by Devorah Knaff Pdf

"A collection of essays, poems and short stories published between 1868 and 1875 in The Overland Monthly, California's first successful literary journal. Included is the work of Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ina Coolbrith, Ambrose Bierce and Joaquin Miller"--Provided by publisher.

Author : H. C Hannah
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783017348

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THE PILOT by H. C Hannah Pdf

Following the attempted hijacking of an airliner en route from Los Angeles to London, one of the passengers, James Ferrar, a brilliant young scientist in possession of a million dollar formula, is brutally murdered.His cousin, Elise Staar, a private pilot, is forced to take the controls, successfully landing the airliner at London Heathrow airport with the guidance of airline pilot Adam Dorivan, from the ground.Were the hijackers responsible for James's murder, or is there a more sinister plot behind his death?After her own life is threatened, Elise joins Adam and a secret team of Special Branch agents to uncover the shocking truth behind James's murder, and a master plan of deception and intrigue is put into action to lure the real killer into a deadly trap.