Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours

Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours PDF Author: Colin Stewart
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours

Flags, Funnels and Hull Colours PDF Author: Colin Stewart
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Flags, Funnels, and Hull Colours

Flags, Funnels, and Hull Colours PDF Author: Colin Stewart
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Flags, Funnels & Hull Colours

Flags, Funnels & Hull Colours PDF Author: Colin Stewart
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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The Book of Flags

The Book of Flags PDF Author: Gordon Campbell
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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The Skipper

The Skipper PDF Author:
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Category : Sailing
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Child of the Sun

Child of the Sun PDF Author: Lonn Taylor
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806167769
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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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

Brassey's Naval Annual PDF Author: Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
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Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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The Naval Annual

The Naval Annual PDF Author:
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Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Brassey's Naval Annual

Brassey's Naval Annual PDF Author:
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Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Special Bibliographic Series

Special Bibliographic Series PDF Author: US Army Military History Research Collection
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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