Author: Allan Ahlberg
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140312409
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Illustrated by Andre Amstutz (Kestrel Hardback- 0 7226.5661 0 $6.95)
Master Salt the Sailor's Son
Author: Allan Ahlberg
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140312409
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Illustrated by Andre Amstutz (Kestrel Hardback- 0 7226.5661 0 $6.95)
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140312409
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Illustrated by Andre Amstutz (Kestrel Hardback- 0 7226.5661 0 $6.95)
Biographical
Author: John Brandt Mansfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
A to Zoo
Author: Carolyn W. Lima
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
Book Description
Presents a guide to nearly 27,000 children's oicture book titles grouped in over 1,200 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
Book Description
Presents a guide to nearly 27,000 children's oicture book titles grouped in over 1,200 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.
History of the Great Lakes...
Author: J. B. Mansfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
The Hard Way Around
Author: Geoffrey Wolff
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307745457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307745457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.
The Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Children's Book Review Index
Author: Gary C. Tarbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Two Years Before the Mast
Author: Richard Henry Dana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Picture Book Index
Author: Margaret Hobson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900092954
Category : Picture books for children
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780900092954
Category : Picture books for children
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A Child of the Sea and Life Among the Mormons
Author: Elizabeth Whitney Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beaver Island (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This is the vivid memoir of a mid-nineteenth-century girlhood spent mostly on the islands of Lake Michigan and the onshore communities of Manistique, Charlevoix, Traverse City, and Little Traverse (now Harbor Springs), written by a woman who grew up to be a lighthouse keeper on Beaver Island and in Little Traverse. Williams was brought up Catholic by a French-speaking mother and an English-speaking father who was a ship's carpenter for entrepreneurs engaged in the mercantile trade to and from these rapidly developing settlements. Williams depicts cordial, even intimate, relationships between her family and the Indians who lived nearby, and describes the courtship and arranged marriage of an Ottawa chief's daughter who lived with her family for an extended period. The major portion of the book, however, is devoted to her eye-witness recollections of James Jesse Strang's short-lived dissident Mormon monarchy on Beaver Island, amplified by stories she heard from disillusioned followers. Strang was expelled from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints after disputing Brigham Young's right to succeed Joseph Smith. Eventually he and his own loyal followers settled on Beaver Island and attracted a stream of new converts; at their demographic peak, the "Strangites" numbered 5,000 strong. Strang saw himself as a prophet and believed the rules he tried to establish were in accord with divine revelations. Williams describes the mounting tensions between Strang's followers and the "gentile" residents who fled the island as Strang's influence grew; incidents connected with Strang's assassination by two former followers; and the ensuing exodus of most Strangites from Beaver Island. She later moved back there with her family, as did many of the earlier inhabitants.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beaver Island (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This is the vivid memoir of a mid-nineteenth-century girlhood spent mostly on the islands of Lake Michigan and the onshore communities of Manistique, Charlevoix, Traverse City, and Little Traverse (now Harbor Springs), written by a woman who grew up to be a lighthouse keeper on Beaver Island and in Little Traverse. Williams was brought up Catholic by a French-speaking mother and an English-speaking father who was a ship's carpenter for entrepreneurs engaged in the mercantile trade to and from these rapidly developing settlements. Williams depicts cordial, even intimate, relationships between her family and the Indians who lived nearby, and describes the courtship and arranged marriage of an Ottawa chief's daughter who lived with her family for an extended period. The major portion of the book, however, is devoted to her eye-witness recollections of James Jesse Strang's short-lived dissident Mormon monarchy on Beaver Island, amplified by stories she heard from disillusioned followers. Strang was expelled from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints after disputing Brigham Young's right to succeed Joseph Smith. Eventually he and his own loyal followers settled on Beaver Island and attracted a stream of new converts; at their demographic peak, the "Strangites" numbered 5,000 strong. Strang saw himself as a prophet and believed the rules he tried to establish were in accord with divine revelations. Williams describes the mounting tensions between Strang's followers and the "gentile" residents who fled the island as Strang's influence grew; incidents connected with Strang's assassination by two former followers; and the ensuing exodus of most Strangites from Beaver Island. She later moved back there with her family, as did many of the earlier inhabitants.