Author: John Masefield
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Category : Sea poems
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A Sailor's Garland
Author: John Masefield
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Category : Sea poems
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
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Category : Sea poems
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Sailors' Knots
Author: William Wymark Jacobs
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"Sailormen ain't wot you might call dandyfied as a rule," said the night-watchman, who had just had a passage of arms with a lighterman and been advised to let somebody else wash him and make a good job of it; "they've got too much sense. They leave dressing up and making eyesores of theirselves to men wot 'ave never smelt salt water; men wot drift up and down the river in lighters and get in everybody's way." He glanced fiercely at the retreating figure of the lighterman, and, turning a deaf ear to a request for a lock of his hair to patch a favorite doormat with, resumed with much vigor his task of sweeping up the litter. * Included in this volume are Jacobs's classic sea stories "Deserted," "Homeward Bound," "Self-Help," "Sentence Deferred," "'Matrimonial Openings, '" "Odd Man Out," "'The Toll-House, '" "Peter's Pence," "The Head of the Family," "Prize Money" "Double Dealing," and "Keeping Up Appearances."
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"Sailormen ain't wot you might call dandyfied as a rule," said the night-watchman, who had just had a passage of arms with a lighterman and been advised to let somebody else wash him and make a good job of it; "they've got too much sense. They leave dressing up and making eyesores of theirselves to men wot 'ave never smelt salt water; men wot drift up and down the river in lighters and get in everybody's way." He glanced fiercely at the retreating figure of the lighterman, and, turning a deaf ear to a request for a lock of his hair to patch a favorite doormat with, resumed with much vigor his task of sweeping up the litter. * Included in this volume are Jacobs's classic sea stories "Deserted," "Homeward Bound," "Self-Help," "Sentence Deferred," "'Matrimonial Openings, '" "Odd Man Out," "'The Toll-House, '" "Peter's Pence," "The Head of the Family," "Prize Money" "Double Dealing," and "Keeping Up Appearances."
The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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Sailors' Magazine
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Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The Fleets Behind the Fleet
Author: William Macneile Dixon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
What follows is not written to praise our merchant sailors and fishermen. They are indeed worthy of all praise. But we looked for nothing else than that they would in every circumstance of trial and danger show themselves to be what they are, peerless. At what date or on what occasion in their history have they failed? From a fierier ordeal a firmer courage and a harder resolution have emerged, as we believed it would. Of this the world is already very well aware. Their friends know it and their foes. What remains then is not to praise them but to instruct ourselves. Our vision has been limited. We knew that in the Navy lay our strength, but in our thoughts we defined it as the Royal Navy. Till these troubled years the Merchant Service had for many Englishmen only a shadowy existence. For the first time it has come acutely home to us that "the sea is all one, -the navy is all one."
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
What follows is not written to praise our merchant sailors and fishermen. They are indeed worthy of all praise. But we looked for nothing else than that they would in every circumstance of trial and danger show themselves to be what they are, peerless. At what date or on what occasion in their history have they failed? From a fierier ordeal a firmer courage and a harder resolution have emerged, as we believed it would. Of this the world is already very well aware. Their friends know it and their foes. What remains then is not to praise them but to instruct ourselves. Our vision has been limited. We knew that in the Navy lay our strength, but in our thoughts we defined it as the Royal Navy. Till these troubled years the Merchant Service had for many Englishmen only a shadowy existence. For the first time it has come acutely home to us that "the sea is all one, -the navy is all one."
The Academy
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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The Press and the People
Author: Adam Fox
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198791291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This groundbreaking study examines the production of ephemeral literature and the creation of a mass reading public in lowland Scotland between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular culture in early modern Scotland and Britain more widely.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198791291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This groundbreaking study examines the production of ephemeral literature and the creation of a mass reading public in lowland Scotland between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular culture in early modern Scotland and Britain more widely.
The World Review
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Journal of American Folklore
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Naval Songs and Ballads
Author: Charles Harding Firth
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A collection of ballads illustrating the history of the British navy from the sixteenth to the middle of the ninteenth century.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A collection of ballads illustrating the history of the British navy from the sixteenth to the middle of the ninteenth century.