Author: Clint Willis
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781840182637
Category : Survival
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Rough Water tells the incredible stories of men and women battling the elements, and sometimes each other, to stay alive. Sailors confront storms, rogue waves, icebergs, sharks, starvation and their own fear and suffering. In these stories, at least, the sea often helps those who help themselves.
Rough Water
Author: Clint Willis
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781840182637
Category : Survival
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Rough Water tells the incredible stories of men and women battling the elements, and sometimes each other, to stay alive. Sailors confront storms, rogue waves, icebergs, sharks, starvation and their own fear and suffering. In these stories, at least, the sea often helps those who help themselves.
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781840182637
Category : Survival
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Rough Water tells the incredible stories of men and women battling the elements, and sometimes each other, to stay alive. Sailors confront storms, rogue waves, icebergs, sharks, starvation and their own fear and suffering. In these stories, at least, the sea often helps those who help themselves.
Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas
Author: Jessica M. Floyd
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496853148
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
During his correspondence with erotic folklore collector Gershon Legman, famed chantey singer and collector Stan Hugill (1906–1992) shared unexpurgated versions of the songs in his repertoire. These bawdy songs were meant to be a part of Legman’s larger project concerning erotic folksong. Upon Legman’s death in 1999, the unfinished and unpublished manuscript sank into obscurity and was believed by many to be permanently lost. Thankfully this “holy grail” of chantey texts had been safe in the private collection of Legman’s widow, Judith Legman, all along. Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas: Identity in the Unexpurgated Repertoire of Stan Hugill is the first critical investigation of this repository, reproduced here for the first time. Training an interdisciplinary lens on twenty-four unexpurgated texts, author Jessica M. Floyd interrogates the articulation of gender, sexuality, and identity as it is expressed in these cultural artifacts of the sea. Opening with both a critical explication of the chantey genre, as well as situating Hugill’s repertoire in the canon of folksong, the book introduces readers to the critical realities that attend this rich cultural tradition. Analytical chapters demonstrate the kaleidoscopic representation of gender and sexuality in this finite repertoire. Each inquiry is connected and overlapping, demonstrating an ebb and flow not unlike the waters on which the songs were sung. Words of warning, heteronormative economies, and queer undercurrents each collide to present an image of sailing life that is nuanced and complicated, provocative and evocative, transgressive and sometimes radical. The volume allows scholars to place a finger on the pulse of maritime life, feeling and experiencing one voice among the din of working-class song traditions.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496853148
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
During his correspondence with erotic folklore collector Gershon Legman, famed chantey singer and collector Stan Hugill (1906–1992) shared unexpurgated versions of the songs in his repertoire. These bawdy songs were meant to be a part of Legman’s larger project concerning erotic folksong. Upon Legman’s death in 1999, the unfinished and unpublished manuscript sank into obscurity and was believed by many to be permanently lost. Thankfully this “holy grail” of chantey texts had been safe in the private collection of Legman’s widow, Judith Legman, all along. Cabin Boys, Milkmaids, and Rough Seas: Identity in the Unexpurgated Repertoire of Stan Hugill is the first critical investigation of this repository, reproduced here for the first time. Training an interdisciplinary lens on twenty-four unexpurgated texts, author Jessica M. Floyd interrogates the articulation of gender, sexuality, and identity as it is expressed in these cultural artifacts of the sea. Opening with both a critical explication of the chantey genre, as well as situating Hugill’s repertoire in the canon of folksong, the book introduces readers to the critical realities that attend this rich cultural tradition. Analytical chapters demonstrate the kaleidoscopic representation of gender and sexuality in this finite repertoire. Each inquiry is connected and overlapping, demonstrating an ebb and flow not unlike the waters on which the songs were sung. Words of warning, heteronormative economies, and queer undercurrents each collide to present an image of sailing life that is nuanced and complicated, provocative and evocative, transgressive and sometimes radical. The volume allows scholars to place a finger on the pulse of maritime life, feeling and experiencing one voice among the din of working-class song traditions.
Rough Passage to London
Author: Robin Lloyd
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1574093215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Lyme, Connecticut, early nineteenth century. Elisha Ely Morgan is a young farm boy who has witnessed firsthand the terror of the War of 1812. Troubled by a tumultuous home life ruled by the fists of their tempestuous father, Ely's two older brothers have both left their pastoral boyhoods to seek manhood through sailing. One afternoon, the Morgan family receives a letter with the news that one brother is lost at sea; the other is believed to be dead. Scrimping as much savings as a farm boy can muster, Ely spends nearly every penny he has to become a sailor on a square-rigged ship, on a route from New York to London—a route he hopes will lead to his vanished brother, Abraham. Learning the brutal trade of a sailor, Ely takes quickly to sea-life, but his focus lies with finding Abraham. Following a series of cryptic clues regarding his brother's fate, Ely becomes entrenched in a mystery deeper than he can imagine. As he feels himself drawing closer to an answer, Ely climbs the ranks to become a captain, experiences romance, faces a mutiny, meets Queen Victoria, and befriends historical legends such as Charles Dickens in his raucous quest.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1574093215
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Lyme, Connecticut, early nineteenth century. Elisha Ely Morgan is a young farm boy who has witnessed firsthand the terror of the War of 1812. Troubled by a tumultuous home life ruled by the fists of their tempestuous father, Ely's two older brothers have both left their pastoral boyhoods to seek manhood through sailing. One afternoon, the Morgan family receives a letter with the news that one brother is lost at sea; the other is believed to be dead. Scrimping as much savings as a farm boy can muster, Ely spends nearly every penny he has to become a sailor on a square-rigged ship, on a route from New York to London—a route he hopes will lead to his vanished brother, Abraham. Learning the brutal trade of a sailor, Ely takes quickly to sea-life, but his focus lies with finding Abraham. Following a series of cryptic clues regarding his brother's fate, Ely becomes entrenched in a mystery deeper than he can imagine. As he feels himself drawing closer to an answer, Ely climbs the ranks to become a captain, experiences romance, faces a mutiny, meets Queen Victoria, and befriends historical legends such as Charles Dickens in his raucous quest.
Researches
Author: Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The American practical navigator
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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Author: United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Salt of the Sea
Author: Ed Shields
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 9780967363387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 9780967363387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The 1931 International Code of Signals
Author: Great Britain. Board of Trade
Publisher:
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The 1931 International Code of Signals: For radio signaling
Author: Great Britain. Board of Trade
Publisher:
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Publisher:
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Monthly Weather Review
Author:
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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