Author: William Spavens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Seaman's Narrative
Author: William Spavens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Narrative of William Spavens
Author: William Spavens
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Part of a series of naval and sea-life memoirs, this title offers an alternative to the usual top-down history, and has much to say on the topic of press gangs. It includes an eyewitness account of Hawke's great victory in Quiberon Bay in 1759.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Part of a series of naval and sea-life memoirs, this title offers an alternative to the usual top-down history, and has much to say on the topic of press gangs. It includes an eyewitness account of Hawke's great victory in Quiberon Bay in 1759.
A Seaman's Narrative of His Adventures During a Captivity Among Chinese Pirates on the Coast of Cochin China
Author: Edward Brown
Publisher:
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Category : Cochin China
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cochin China
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Seaman's Narrative ; Containing An Account of a Great Variety of Such Incidents as the Author Met with in the Sea Service. Also, A Descriptive Account of the Discipline, Allowance, and Customs of His Majesty's Navy, the East India Company, and Other Merchants' Service. To which is Added, A Short and Plain Introduction to Astronomy and Geography ; with a Brief Description of Several Countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and Tables of Latitude and Longitude, &c. &c. And An Explanation of Nautical Terms. The Whole Made Easy, and Adapted to the Capacity of Youth. By William Spavens, Pensioner on the Naval Chest at Chatham. Entered at Stationer's Hall
Author: William Spavens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seamanship
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seamanship
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Seaman's Narrative
Author: William Spavens
Publisher:
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Story of the Seaman
Author: John Forsyth Meigs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The seaman's narrative
Author: William Spavens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Seaman's Narrative; Containing an Account of a Great Variety of Such Incidents as the Author Met with in the Sea Service. Also a Descriptive Account of the Discipline, Allowance, and Customs of His Majesty's Navy
Author: William Spavens
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385689417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T113891 With an additional titlepage engraved: 'The narrative of William Spavens, a Chatham Pensioner. Written by himself'. Louth: printed by Sheardown and Son, and sold for the benefit of the author, 1796. [4], iv,295, [1]p.; 12°
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385689417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T113891 With an additional titlepage engraved: 'The narrative of William Spavens, a Chatham Pensioner. Written by himself'. Louth: printed by Sheardown and Son, and sold for the benefit of the author, 1796. [4], iv,295, [1]p.; 12°
The Seaman's Narrative
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Sea Voyage Narrative
Author: Robert Foulke
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135366438
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135366438
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts.