Author: E. Keble Chatterton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Ships & Ways of Other Days
Author: E. Keble Chatterton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Ships & Ways of Other Days
Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Ships & Ways of Other Days
Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days
Author: John D. Whidden
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Category : Sailing
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Publisher:
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Category : Sailing
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Looking for a Ship
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429958111
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429958111
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
The Way of a Ship
Author: Derek Lundy
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307369889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
From the author of Godforsaken Sea -- a #1 bestseller in Canada and “one of the best books ever written about sailing” (Time magazine) -- comes a magnificent re-creation of a square-rigger voyage round Cape Horn at the end of the 19th century. In The Way of a Ship, Derek Lundy places his seafaring great-great uncle, Benjamin Lundy, on board the Beara Head and brings to life the ship’s community as it performs the exhausting and dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the sea. The “beautiful, widow-making, deep-sea” sailing ships could sail fast in almost all weather and carry substantial cargo. Handling square-riggers demanded detailed and specialized skills, and life at sea, although romanticized by sea-voyage chroniclers, was often brutal. Seamen were sleep deprived and malnourished, at times half-starved, and scurvy was still a possibility. Derek Lundy reminds readers what Melville and Conrad expressed so well: that the sea voyage is an overarching metaphor for life itself. As Benjamin Lundy nears the Horn and its attendant terrors, the traditional qualities of the sailor -- fatalism, stoicism, courage, obedience to a strict hierarchy, even sentimentality -- are revealed in their dying days, as sail gave way to steam. Derek Lundy tells his gripping tale with the kind of storytelling skill and writerly breadth that is usually the ken of our finest novelists, and in so doing, imagines a harrowing and wholly credible history for his seafaring Irish-Canadian ancestor.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307369889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
From the author of Godforsaken Sea -- a #1 bestseller in Canada and “one of the best books ever written about sailing” (Time magazine) -- comes a magnificent re-creation of a square-rigger voyage round Cape Horn at the end of the 19th century. In The Way of a Ship, Derek Lundy places his seafaring great-great uncle, Benjamin Lundy, on board the Beara Head and brings to life the ship’s community as it performs the exhausting and dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the sea. The “beautiful, widow-making, deep-sea” sailing ships could sail fast in almost all weather and carry substantial cargo. Handling square-riggers demanded detailed and specialized skills, and life at sea, although romanticized by sea-voyage chroniclers, was often brutal. Seamen were sleep deprived and malnourished, at times half-starved, and scurvy was still a possibility. Derek Lundy reminds readers what Melville and Conrad expressed so well: that the sea voyage is an overarching metaphor for life itself. As Benjamin Lundy nears the Horn and its attendant terrors, the traditional qualities of the sailor -- fatalism, stoicism, courage, obedience to a strict hierarchy, even sentimentality -- are revealed in their dying days, as sail gave way to steam. Derek Lundy tells his gripping tale with the kind of storytelling skill and writerly breadth that is usually the ken of our finest novelists, and in so doing, imagines a harrowing and wholly credible history for his seafaring Irish-Canadian ancestor.
Donald McKay and His Famous Sailing Ships
Author: Richard C. McKay
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144291
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
DIVRare and valuable study reveals accomplishments of great 19th-century shipbuilder in era of sailing packet and clipper ship. 58 superb illustrations, including plans, models, maps, etc. /div
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144291
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
DIVRare and valuable study reveals accomplishments of great 19th-century shipbuilder in era of sailing packet and clipper ship. 58 superb illustrations, including plans, models, maps, etc. /div
Gold and Glory, Or, Wild Ways of Other Days
Author: Grace Stebbing
Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Sea Power
Author: Charles Hall (H.)
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Q-ships and Their Story
Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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