Author: Colin Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours
Author: Colin Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Flags, Funnels, and Hull Colours
Author: Colin Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Flags, Funnels & Hull Colours
Author: Colin Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Book of Flags
Author: Gordon Campbell
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Skipper
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailing
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sailing
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Child of the Sun
Author: Lonn Taylor
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806167769
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Historian Lonn Taylor built a career as a curator in history museums, including the Smithsonian Institution. In retirement he wrote weekly columns on the people and places of Texas, signed the “Rambling Boy,” that were distributed widely in print and on the radio. This book stands out from his numerous other books on historical and literary topics: it’s the only one he wrote about himself and the last book he wrote before he died in June 2019. It describes how his experience of growing up in the Philippines from 1947 to 1955 shaped his entire life by teaching him the destructive power of war. In the Philippines, his father was employed as a civil engineer building and rebuilding roads and bridges in the war-devastated islands. “I lived most of my daily life in a well-protected bubble of white colonialism,” he says in this memoir of his youth, “and thought nothing about it.” Despite that “well-protected bubble,” Taylor was aware of the ruins all around him, the ravages of bombs and artillery shells, and of his Filipino neighbors unbowed by their loss of wealth and privilege, or their confinement and starvation in Japanese internment camps. The manifest strengths and resilience of a society blended of Malay, Chinese, Spanish, and American cultures made him a lifelong believer in the benefits of multiculturalism—even as he bore witness to the islands’ postcolonial woes: a feudal agricultural system maintained by landlords with private armies, corruption so endemic that even post office clerks expected tips for selling stamps, and deadly outbreaks of personal violence. As an American child in the Philippines, and then, inevitably, an outsider in the postwar America he returned to at fifteen, Taylor honed a keen and varied sense of difference in class, culture, and language. This nuanced understanding can be heard throughout Child of the Sun as Taylor reflects on his innocent years, conveying with hard-earned worldliness and wisdom all the beauty and lasting conflict of a lost world and time.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806167769
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Historian Lonn Taylor built a career as a curator in history museums, including the Smithsonian Institution. In retirement he wrote weekly columns on the people and places of Texas, signed the “Rambling Boy,” that were distributed widely in print and on the radio. This book stands out from his numerous other books on historical and literary topics: it’s the only one he wrote about himself and the last book he wrote before he died in June 2019. It describes how his experience of growing up in the Philippines from 1947 to 1955 shaped his entire life by teaching him the destructive power of war. In the Philippines, his father was employed as a civil engineer building and rebuilding roads and bridges in the war-devastated islands. “I lived most of my daily life in a well-protected bubble of white colonialism,” he says in this memoir of his youth, “and thought nothing about it.” Despite that “well-protected bubble,” Taylor was aware of the ruins all around him, the ravages of bombs and artillery shells, and of his Filipino neighbors unbowed by their loss of wealth and privilege, or their confinement and starvation in Japanese internment camps. The manifest strengths and resilience of a society blended of Malay, Chinese, Spanish, and American cultures made him a lifelong believer in the benefits of multiculturalism—even as he bore witness to the islands’ postcolonial woes: a feudal agricultural system maintained by landlords with private armies, corruption so endemic that even post office clerks expected tips for selling stamps, and deadly outbreaks of personal violence. As an American child in the Philippines, and then, inevitably, an outsider in the postwar America he returned to at fifteen, Taylor honed a keen and varied sense of difference in class, culture, and language. This nuanced understanding can be heard throughout Child of the Sun as Taylor reflects on his innocent years, conveying with hard-earned worldliness and wisdom all the beauty and lasting conflict of a lost world and time.
Brassey's Naval Annual
Author: Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
Publisher:
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Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Naval Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Brassey's Naval Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Special Bibliographic Series
Author: US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description