Author: Charles H. Barnard
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of C.H.B.
Author: Charles H. Barnard
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324093099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812—a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival. In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin—“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)—tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland archipelago during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and unequaled knowledge of the very pith of the seafaring life, Dolin describes in vivid and harrowing detail the increasingly desperate existence of the castaways during their eighteen-month ordeal—an all-too-common fate in the Great Age of Sail. A tale of intriguing complexity, with surprising twists and turns throughout—involving greed, lying, bullying, a hostile takeover, stellar leadership, ingenuity, severe privation, endurance, banishment, the great value of a dog, the birth of a baby, a perilous thousand-mile open-ocean journey in a seventeen-foot boat, an improbable rescue mission, and legal battles over a dubious and disgraceful wartime prize—Left for Dead shows individuals in wartime under great duress acting both nobly and atrociously, and offers a unique perspective on a pivotal era in American maritime history.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324093099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812—a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival. In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin—“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)—tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland archipelago during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and unequaled knowledge of the very pith of the seafaring life, Dolin describes in vivid and harrowing detail the increasingly desperate existence of the castaways during their eighteen-month ordeal—an all-too-common fate in the Great Age of Sail. A tale of intriguing complexity, with surprising twists and turns throughout—involving greed, lying, bullying, a hostile takeover, stellar leadership, ingenuity, severe privation, endurance, banishment, the great value of a dog, the birth of a baby, a perilous thousand-mile open-ocean journey in a seventeen-foot boat, an improbable rescue mission, and legal battles over a dubious and disgraceful wartime prize—Left for Dead shows individuals in wartime under great duress acting both nobly and atrociously, and offers a unique perspective on a pivotal era in American maritime history.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.
Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Fall River
Author: Fall River Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Finding List of Books and Periodicals in the Central Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Finding List of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City, Central Library
Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.