Author: James Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Epitome of the Art of Navigation; Or, A Short, Easy, and Methodical Way to Become a Compleat Navigator
Author: James Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Epitome Of The Art of Navigation; Or, A Short, Easy, and Methodical Way to Become a Compleat Navigator
Author: James Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Epitome of the Art of Navigation; Or, A Short and Easy Methodical Way to Become a Compleat Navigator, [etc.].
Author: James Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Epitome of the Art of Navigation
Author: James Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Epitome of the Art of Navigation; or, a Short and easy way to become a compleat navigator ... With a new supplement, of all the astronomical tables useful in the art of navigation, etc
Author: James ATKINSON (Writer on Navigation.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Epitome of the Art of Navigation
Author: James Atkinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, 1876
Author: New South Wales. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, Reference Department
Author: Free Public Library (Sydney, N.S.W. Reference Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Tides in the Affairs of Men
Author: Cheryl Fury
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313074240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The age of maritime expansion and the Anglo-Spanish War have been analyzed by generations of historians, but nearly all studies have emphasized events and participants at the top. This book examines the lives and experiences of the men of the Elizabethan maritime community during a particularly volatile period of maritime history. The seafaring community had to contend with simultaneous pressures from many different directions. Shipowners and merchants, motivated by profit, hired seamen to sail voyages of ever-increasing distances, which taxed the health and capabilities of 16th-century crews and vessels. International tensions in the last two decades of Elizabeth's reign magnified the risks to all seamen, whether in civilian employment or on warships. The advent of open warfare with Spain in 1585 resulted in a privateering war against the Spanish Empire, seen by some seamen as one of the few boons of the conflict. The other major development was the introduction of impressment, a deeply resented aspect of any naval war and one that brought great hardship to seamen and their families. The relationship between the Crown and its seafarers was a pull-haul between a state beset by financial problems of fighting a protracted war on several fronts and employees forced to work in dangerous conditions for substandard wages. The stresses of the war years tell us much about the dynamic of the maritime community, their expectations, and their coping strategies.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313074240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The age of maritime expansion and the Anglo-Spanish War have been analyzed by generations of historians, but nearly all studies have emphasized events and participants at the top. This book examines the lives and experiences of the men of the Elizabethan maritime community during a particularly volatile period of maritime history. The seafaring community had to contend with simultaneous pressures from many different directions. Shipowners and merchants, motivated by profit, hired seamen to sail voyages of ever-increasing distances, which taxed the health and capabilities of 16th-century crews and vessels. International tensions in the last two decades of Elizabeth's reign magnified the risks to all seamen, whether in civilian employment or on warships. The advent of open warfare with Spain in 1585 resulted in a privateering war against the Spanish Empire, seen by some seamen as one of the few boons of the conflict. The other major development was the introduction of impressment, a deeply resented aspect of any naval war and one that brought great hardship to seamen and their families. The relationship between the Crown and its seafarers was a pull-haul between a state beset by financial problems of fighting a protracted war on several fronts and employees forced to work in dangerous conditions for substandard wages. The stresses of the war years tell us much about the dynamic of the maritime community, their expectations, and their coping strategies.
The Novel and the Sea
Author: Margaret Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400836484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination. Margaret Cohen moors the novel to overseas exploration and work at sea, framing its emergence as a transatlantic history, steeped in the adventures and risks of the maritime frontier. Cohen explores how Robinson Crusoe competed with the best-selling nautical literature of the time by dramatizing remarkable conditions, from the wonders of unknown lands to storms, shipwrecks, and pirates. She considers James Fenimore Cooper's refashioning of the adventure novel in postcolonial America, and a change in literary poetics toward new frontiers and to the maritime labor and technology of the nineteenth century. Cohen shows how Jules Verne reworked adventures at sea into science fiction; how Melville, Hugo, and Conrad navigated the foggy waters of language and thought; and how detective and spy fiction built on sea fiction's problem-solving devices. She also discusses the transformation of the ocean from a theater of skilled work to an environment of pristine nature and the sublime. A significant literary history, The Novel and the Sea challenges readers to rethink their land-locked assumptions about the novel.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400836484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination. Margaret Cohen moors the novel to overseas exploration and work at sea, framing its emergence as a transatlantic history, steeped in the adventures and risks of the maritime frontier. Cohen explores how Robinson Crusoe competed with the best-selling nautical literature of the time by dramatizing remarkable conditions, from the wonders of unknown lands to storms, shipwrecks, and pirates. She considers James Fenimore Cooper's refashioning of the adventure novel in postcolonial America, and a change in literary poetics toward new frontiers and to the maritime labor and technology of the nineteenth century. Cohen shows how Jules Verne reworked adventures at sea into science fiction; how Melville, Hugo, and Conrad navigated the foggy waters of language and thought; and how detective and spy fiction built on sea fiction's problem-solving devices. She also discusses the transformation of the ocean from a theater of skilled work to an environment of pristine nature and the sublime. A significant literary history, The Novel and the Sea challenges readers to rethink their land-locked assumptions about the novel.