Author: Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN: 9780689505324
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Juliana, an eleven-year-old Saxon girl, loses her home and family when the Normans conquer England in 1066 and seeks to order her life by becoming involved in the creation of the Bayeux tapestry.
Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
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Category : Sailing ships
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Edward K. Chatterton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3954273012
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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This story of sailing ships has been written primarily for the general reader, in the hope that the sons and daughters of a naval nation, and of an Empire that stretches beyond the seas, may find therein a record of some interest and assistance in enlarging and systematising their ideas on the subject, especially as regards the ships of earlier centuries. I trust that both the yachtsman and sailorman will find in these pages something of the same exiting pleasure which has been mine in tracing the course of the evolutions through which their ships have passed. A well written and beautifully illustrated historical account that starts with the early Egyptian ships from 6000 BC and covers the development of sailing ships until the beginning of the 20th century. Reprint of the original edition from 1909.
Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368246100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Reprint of the original.
Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
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Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Author: Frans G. Bengtsson
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173465
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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A beloved Viking saga and masterpiece of historical fiction, The Long Ships is a high spirited adventure that stretches from Scandinavia to Spain, England, Ireland, and beyond. Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson’s hero, Red Orm—canny, courageous, and above all lucky—is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings and made to take his place at the oars of their dragon-prowed ships. Orm is then captured by the Moors in Spain, where he is initiated into the pleasures of the senses and fights for the Caliph of Cordova. Escaping from captivity, Orm washes up in Ireland, where he marvels at those epicene creatures, the Christian monks, and from which he then moves on to play an ever more important part in the intrigues of the various Scandinavian kings and clans and dependencies. Eventually, Orm contributes to the Viking defeat of the army of the king of England and returns home an off-the-cuff Christian and a very rich man, though back on his native turf new trials and tribulations will test his cunning and determination. Packed with pitched battles and blood feuds and told throughout with wit and high spirits, Bengtsson’s book is a splendid adventure that features one of the most unexpectedly winning heroes in modern fiction.
Author: United States. Naval History Division
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Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
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