Author: William Falconer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3864442761
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original from 1780. Falconer ́s marine dictionary is written by an experienced seaman, who worked not only for the Royal navy but also in merchant ships.
Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)
Author: William Falconer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3864442761
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original from 1780. Falconer ́s marine dictionary is written by an experienced seaman, who worked not only for the Royal navy but also in merchant ships.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3864442761
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original from 1780. Falconer ́s marine dictionary is written by an experienced seaman, who worked not only for the Royal navy but also in merchant ships.
Falconer's Marine Dictionary (1780)
Author: William Falconer
Publisher: Newton Abbot [England] : David & Charles
ISBN: 9780715347553
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher: Newton Abbot [England] : David & Charles
ISBN: 9780715347553
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Falconer's Marine Dictionary (1780)
Author: William Falconer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Falconer's Marine Dictionary
Author: William Falconer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine
Author: William Falconer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781861762047
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
William Falconer first published his marine dictionary in 1769. It provided definitions of maritime terminology, data on technical aspects of shipbuilding and the Navy's administrative and operational practices. This is a reprint of the 1815 edition as revised by the naval historian William Burney.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781861762047
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
William Falconer first published his marine dictionary in 1769. It provided definitions of maritime terminology, data on technical aspects of shipbuilding and the Navy's administrative and operational practices. This is a reprint of the 1815 edition as revised by the naval historian William Burney.
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine
Author: William Falconer
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This comprehensive dictionary of maritime terminology was first published in 1813 and designed as a reference work for shipbuilders and navigators. It was compiled by the naval historian William Burney and presented a revised and expanded version of the classic Universal Marine Dictionary originally published in 1769 by the poet and lexicographer William Falconer (1732–89). The dictionary with over 800 pages presents technical data on shipbuilding, navigation, the operation of ships, weaponry, and provisions, as well as historical, legal, and medical information.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This comprehensive dictionary of maritime terminology was first published in 1813 and designed as a reference work for shipbuilders and navigators. It was compiled by the naval historian William Burney and presented a revised and expanded version of the classic Universal Marine Dictionary originally published in 1769 by the poet and lexicographer William Falconer (1732–89). The dictionary with over 800 pages presents technical data on shipbuilding, navigation, the operation of ships, weaponry, and provisions, as well as historical, legal, and medical information.
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine. Falconer Improved and Modernized. The Mariner's New and Complete Naval Dictionary ... Illustrated with Thirteen Or, Rather, Twelve Copper-plate Engravings ... Third Edition, Revised, Corrected and Improved by J. W. Norie
Author: William FALCONER (Poet.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine; Being a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Usually Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Machinery, Movements, and Military, as Well as Naval, Operations of Ships: with Such Parts of Astronomy, and Navigation, as Will be Found Useful to Practical Navigators
Author: William Falconer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe Defoe
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684480833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1684480833
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Robinson Crusoe, an adventure tale that fascinated such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and J. M. Coetzee, has been an international best-seller for three hundred years. An adventure tale involving cannibals, pirates, and shipwrecks, it embodies economic, social, political, and philosophical themes that continue to be relevant today. Moreover, the notion of isolation on a deserted island and a fascination with survival continue to be central to countless popular cinema and television programs. This edition of the novel with its introduction, line notes, and full bibliographical notes provides a uniquely scholarly presentation of the novel. There has been no other edition like it. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Anatomy of a Naval Disaster
Author: James Pritchard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773565531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Pritchard describes the domestic and international political circumstances in France that gave rise to the expedition, outlining strategy and politics in the context of colonial defence and continental ambition. He reconstructs the events that contributed to the failure of the expedition - human and institutional weakness, weather, spoiled provisions, disease, and the death of the commanding admiral. Anatomy of a Naval Disaster exposes the ambitions and frailties of men, the arbitrariness of success, and the limits of power in the eighteenth century.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773565531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Pritchard describes the domestic and international political circumstances in France that gave rise to the expedition, outlining strategy and politics in the context of colonial defence and continental ambition. He reconstructs the events that contributed to the failure of the expedition - human and institutional weakness, weather, spoiled provisions, disease, and the death of the commanding admiral. Anatomy of a Naval Disaster exposes the ambitions and frailties of men, the arbitrariness of success, and the limits of power in the eighteenth century.