Author: George Cotsell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anchors
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A Treatise on Ships' Anchors
Author: George Cotsell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anchors
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anchors
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Anchors
Author: Betty Nelson Curryer
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
How the first simple pierced stone anchors developed into the modern devices of today that hold the heaviest super tankers.
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
How the first simple pierced stone anchors developed into the modern devices of today that hold the heaviest super tankers.
A Treatise on Shipsʼ Anchors by George Cotsell
Author: George Cotsell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
A Treatise on Modern Horology in Theory and Practice
Author: Claudius Saunier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Into the Wild
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307476863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307476863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.
A Treatise Founded Upon Philosophical and Rational Principles
Author: William Hutchinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A Treatise on the Irregularities of the Teeth and Their Correction Including, with the Author's Practice, Other Current Methods
Author: John Nutting Farrar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dentistry, Operative
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dentistry, Operative
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Subject List of Works on Military and Naval Arts
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A treatise founded upon philosophical and rational principles, towards establishing fixed rules for the best form and proportional dimensions ... of Merchant Ships in general, etc
Author: William HUTCHINSON (Dock Master at Liverpool.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea
Author: Reginald Godfrey Marsden
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368630466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368630466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.