Author: Don Casey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393046533
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Being a compendium of useful facts, diverse knowledge, and uncommon wisdom, including much reassurance for the fearful and dubious, toward staying safe and happy while preserving domestic tranquility, during a month, a year, or a lifetime of cruising aboard small sailboats."--Cover.
Dragged Aboard
Author: Don Casey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393046533
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Being a compendium of useful facts, diverse knowledge, and uncommon wisdom, including much reassurance for the fearful and dubious, toward staying safe and happy while preserving domestic tranquility, during a month, a year, or a lifetime of cruising aboard small sailboats."--Cover.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393046533
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"Being a compendium of useful facts, diverse knowledge, and uncommon wisdom, including much reassurance for the fearful and dubious, toward staying safe and happy while preserving domestic tranquility, during a month, a year, or a lifetime of cruising aboard small sailboats."--Cover.
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Sealift
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Within a Captain's Power
Author: Lisa A. Olech
Publisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 1516100786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Never underestimate the power of a pirate . . . Captain James Steele is duty bound to capture the privateer Scarlet Night and bring her rebellious crew to England to hang. Then he will leave his majesty’s service, make an upstanding marriage, and join the landed gentry. But the winds of fate are blowing the straitlaced commander utterly off course. Once aboard, James comes face to face with a pirate boy who is in reality fierce, desperate—and gorgeous—Samantha Christian, on the run from a sadistic Virginia plantation owner. With her identity unbound, the good captain dutifully takes her under his personal command, whereupon decorum goes out the porthole. But while his heart is lost to Samantha by the time they reach England, her noose still awaits. Now James’s sense of duty will be severely tested. As for Samantha, she has a plan, and a duty, of her own . . .
Publisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 1516100786
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Never underestimate the power of a pirate . . . Captain James Steele is duty bound to capture the privateer Scarlet Night and bring her rebellious crew to England to hang. Then he will leave his majesty’s service, make an upstanding marriage, and join the landed gentry. But the winds of fate are blowing the straitlaced commander utterly off course. Once aboard, James comes face to face with a pirate boy who is in reality fierce, desperate—and gorgeous—Samantha Christian, on the run from a sadistic Virginia plantation owner. With her identity unbound, the good captain dutifully takes her under his personal command, whereupon decorum goes out the porthole. But while his heart is lost to Samantha by the time they reach England, her noose still awaits. Now James’s sense of duty will be severely tested. As for Samantha, she has a plan, and a duty, of her own . . .
Adventurous Empires
Author: Phillip E. Sims
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783468831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britains national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. The airliner offered luxurious travel for the privileged few, every journey being an adventure shared by passengers and crew.Short Brothers built 42 Empires at their factory in Rochester during the late 1930s. Imperial Airways were expanding their network to the furthermost outposts of the British Empire, whilst laying down the principles of scheduled airline operation.This is the tale of the realization of a dream and the efforts of those who made it possible. During World War II, the military Sunderland version became an icon.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783468831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britains national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. The airliner offered luxurious travel for the privileged few, every journey being an adventure shared by passengers and crew.Short Brothers built 42 Empires at their factory in Rochester during the late 1930s. Imperial Airways were expanding their network to the furthermost outposts of the British Empire, whilst laying down the principles of scheduled airline operation.This is the tale of the realization of a dream and the efforts of those who made it possible. During World War II, the military Sunderland version became an icon.
Across Asia's Snows and Deserts
Author: William James Morden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
An account of the Morden-Clark Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, 1926.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
An account of the Morden-Clark Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, 1926.
The Drowned and the Saved
Author: Les Wilson
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1788850270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Saltire Society “History Book of the Year” Award winner. “An absorbing and moving book” on the World War I shipwrecks off of Scotland’s Islay island (The Scotsman). The loss of two British ships crammed with American soldiers bound for the trenches of the First World War brought the devastation of war directly to the shores of the Scottish island of Islay. The sinking of the troopship Tuscania by a German U-Boat on 5 February 1918 was the first major loss of US troops in in the war. Eight months after the people of Islay had buried more than 200 Tuscania dead, the armed merchant cruiser Otranto collided with another troopship during a terrible storm. Despite a valiant rescue attempt by HMS Mounsay, the Otranto drifted towards Islay, hit a reef, throwing 600 men into the water. Just 19 survived; the rest were drowned or crushed by the wreckage. Based on the harrowing personal recollection of survivors and rescuers, newspaper reports and original research, Les Wilson tells the story of these terrible events, painting a vivid picture which also “pays tribute to the astonishing bravery and humanity of islanders, who risked their lives pulling men from the sea, cared for survivors, and buried the dead” (The Herald). “A well-researched account of loss and tragedy.” —Oban Times
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1788850270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Saltire Society “History Book of the Year” Award winner. “An absorbing and moving book” on the World War I shipwrecks off of Scotland’s Islay island (The Scotsman). The loss of two British ships crammed with American soldiers bound for the trenches of the First World War brought the devastation of war directly to the shores of the Scottish island of Islay. The sinking of the troopship Tuscania by a German U-Boat on 5 February 1918 was the first major loss of US troops in in the war. Eight months after the people of Islay had buried more than 200 Tuscania dead, the armed merchant cruiser Otranto collided with another troopship during a terrible storm. Despite a valiant rescue attempt by HMS Mounsay, the Otranto drifted towards Islay, hit a reef, throwing 600 men into the water. Just 19 survived; the rest were drowned or crushed by the wreckage. Based on the harrowing personal recollection of survivors and rescuers, newspaper reports and original research, Les Wilson tells the story of these terrible events, painting a vivid picture which also “pays tribute to the astonishing bravery and humanity of islanders, who risked their lives pulling men from the sea, cared for survivors, and buried the dead” (The Herald). “A well-researched account of loss and tragedy.” —Oban Times
Chasing Charlie
Author: Richard Fleming
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476631484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Richard Fleming served as a scout with the elite U.S. Marine 1st Force Reconnaissance Company during the bloodiest years of the Vietnam War. Dropped deep into enemy territory, Recon relied on stealth and surprise to complete their mission--providing intelligence on enemy positions and conducting raids, prisoner snatches, and ambushes. Fleming's absorbing memoir recounts his transformation from idealistic recruit to cynical veteran as the war claimed the lives of his friends and the missions became ever more dangerous.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476631484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Richard Fleming served as a scout with the elite U.S. Marine 1st Force Reconnaissance Company during the bloodiest years of the Vietnam War. Dropped deep into enemy territory, Recon relied on stealth and surprise to complete their mission--providing intelligence on enemy positions and conducting raids, prisoner snatches, and ambushes. Fleming's absorbing memoir recounts his transformation from idealistic recruit to cynical veteran as the war claimed the lives of his friends and the missions became ever more dangerous.
The Girls of Central High in Camp: or, the Old Professor's Secret
Author: Gertrude Morrison
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040462018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040462018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Three Little Ships
Author: Lilian Harry
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409130347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Lilian Harry's engrossing wartime saga about the heroes and heroines of Dunkirk. During just nine days in the early summer of 1940, nearly eight hundred 'little ships', from lifeboats and passenger steamers to small private yachts and dinghies, set off across the English Channel to rescue almost half a million men trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Among them were three very different craft - a London fireboat from the docklands of the East End, manned by skipper Olly Mears and his crew; a small pleasure steamer from the River Dart in Devon, commanded by twenty-one-year-old Robby Endacott, an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy who grew up on the banks of the Dart; and a small motor yacht owned by Portsmouth solicitor Hubert Stainbank and crewed by his sons, Charles and Toby. As each boat ferries exhausted men from the beaches to the waiting ships, under incessant fire from enemy aircraft and in a sea awash with debris and bodies, the men are unknowingly united by a powerful driving force - the urgent need to find one man, brother or son, who matters more to them than anyone else. Each of these missing men has a family, a wife or a sweetheart at home who is anxiously waiting for news...One sweetheart in particular is determined to play her own part in the rescue.
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409130347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Lilian Harry's engrossing wartime saga about the heroes and heroines of Dunkirk. During just nine days in the early summer of 1940, nearly eight hundred 'little ships', from lifeboats and passenger steamers to small private yachts and dinghies, set off across the English Channel to rescue almost half a million men trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk. Among them were three very different craft - a London fireboat from the docklands of the East End, manned by skipper Olly Mears and his crew; a small pleasure steamer from the River Dart in Devon, commanded by twenty-one-year-old Robby Endacott, an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy who grew up on the banks of the Dart; and a small motor yacht owned by Portsmouth solicitor Hubert Stainbank and crewed by his sons, Charles and Toby. As each boat ferries exhausted men from the beaches to the waiting ships, under incessant fire from enemy aircraft and in a sea awash with debris and bodies, the men are unknowingly united by a powerful driving force - the urgent need to find one man, brother or son, who matters more to them than anyone else. Each of these missing men has a family, a wife or a sweetheart at home who is anxiously waiting for news...One sweetheart in particular is determined to play her own part in the rescue.