Author: Susan Hill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424204809
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When Stuart Little goes sailing his adventures come in all sizes! Includes colorful illustrations and a note to caregivers.
Stuart Sets Sail
Author: Susan Hill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424204809
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When Stuart Little goes sailing his adventures come in all sizes! Includes colorful illustrations and a note to caregivers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424204809
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When Stuart Little goes sailing his adventures come in all sizes! Includes colorful illustrations and a note to caregivers.
Stuart Sets Sail
Author: Susan Hill
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756903848
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stuart series/I Can Read Level 1: Beginning Reading.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780756903848
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stuart series/I Can Read Level 1: Beginning Reading.
A Manual of Sail Trim
Author: Stuart H. Walker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393032963
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A guide for racing covers the principles of sail trim, crew movement techniques, maneuvers, and control systems, and gives advice on adjusting to special conditions.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393032963
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A guide for racing covers the principles of sail trim, crew movement techniques, maneuvers, and control systems, and gives advice on adjusting to special conditions.
Sugar in the Blood
Author: Andrea Stuart
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030796115X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would not only lift George Ashby from abject poverty and shape the lives of his descendants, but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers in a strangling embrace. Stuart uses her own family story—from the seventeenth century through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas. As it grew, the sugar trade enriched Europe as never before, financing the Industrial Revolution and fuelling the Enlightenment. And, as well, it became the basis of many economies in South America, played an important part in the evolution of the United States as a world power and transformed the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches. But this sweet and hugely profitable trade—“white gold,” as it was known—had profoundly less palatable consequences in its precipitation of the enslavement of Africans to work the fields on the islands and, ultimately, throughout the American continents. Interspersing the tectonic shifts of colonial history with her family’s experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery with extraordinary subtlety and sensitivity. In examining how these forces shaped her own family—its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin—she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day. Shifting between personal and global history, Stuart gives us a deepened understanding of the connections between continents, between black and white, between men and women, between the free and the enslaved. It is a story brought to life with riveting and unparalleled immediacy, a story of fundamental importance to the making of our world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030796115X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would not only lift George Ashby from abject poverty and shape the lives of his descendants, but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers in a strangling embrace. Stuart uses her own family story—from the seventeenth century through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas. As it grew, the sugar trade enriched Europe as never before, financing the Industrial Revolution and fuelling the Enlightenment. And, as well, it became the basis of many economies in South America, played an important part in the evolution of the United States as a world power and transformed the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches. But this sweet and hugely profitable trade—“white gold,” as it was known—had profoundly less palatable consequences in its precipitation of the enslavement of Africans to work the fields on the islands and, ultimately, throughout the American continents. Interspersing the tectonic shifts of colonial history with her family’s experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery with extraordinary subtlety and sensitivity. In examining how these forces shaped her own family—its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin—she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day. Shifting between personal and global history, Stuart gives us a deepened understanding of the connections between continents, between black and white, between men and women, between the free and the enslaved. It is a story brought to life with riveting and unparalleled immediacy, a story of fundamental importance to the making of our world.
Advanced Racing Tactics
Author: Stuart H. Walker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303339
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"Possibly the best book on racing tactics ever written." --Ted Jones, Dolphin Book Club News
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393303339
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"Possibly the best book on racing tactics ever written." --Ted Jones, Dolphin Book Club News
The New Book of Sail Trim
Author: Ken Textor
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780924486814
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Editor Ken Textor is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780924486814
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Editor Ken Textor is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
Death Sets Sail
Author: Robin Stevens
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665919442
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Daisy and Hazel leap into action when a murder is committed on their cruise along the River Nile in Egypt.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665919442
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Daisy and Hazel leap into action when a murder is committed on their cruise along the River Nile in Egypt.
The Devil and the Dark Water
Author: Stuart Turton
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728206030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
"Compulsively readable."—New York Times Book Review From Stuart Turton, author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, comes an extraordinary new locked-room murder mystery. A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634, and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Traveling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent. Among the other guests is Sara Wessel, a noblewoman with a secret. But no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock dies in the night. And then the passengers hear a terrible voice, whispering to them in the darkness, promising three unholy miracles, followed by a slaughter. First an impossible pursuit. Second an impossible theft. And third an impossible murder. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes? With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board. Shirley Jackson meets Sherlock Holmes in this chilling thriller of supernatural horror, occult suspicion, and paranormal mystery on the high seas.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728206030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
"Compulsively readable."—New York Times Book Review From Stuart Turton, author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, comes an extraordinary new locked-room murder mystery. A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634, and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Traveling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent. Among the other guests is Sara Wessel, a noblewoman with a secret. But no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock dies in the night. And then the passengers hear a terrible voice, whispering to them in the darkness, promising three unholy miracles, followed by a slaughter. First an impossible pursuit. Second an impossible theft. And third an impossible murder. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes? With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board. Shirley Jackson meets Sherlock Holmes in this chilling thriller of supernatural horror, occult suspicion, and paranormal mystery on the high seas.
Blue Water, Green Skipper
Author: Stuart Woods
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101599286
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the true story of his journey sailing alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea? Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his life, Woods takes readers on a spectacular journey—not just of traveling across the world, but of being tried in fire, learning by accepting challenges, appreciating the beauty of the open water, and living to tell about it.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101599286
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the true story of his journey sailing alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea? Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his life, Woods takes readers on a spectacular journey—not just of traveling across the world, but of being tried in fire, learning by accepting challenges, appreciating the beauty of the open water, and living to tell about it.
Wind and Strategy
Author: Stuart Walker
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393332582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A complete discussion of the effects of wind and its changes on racing strategy--by one of the world's most successful sailboat racers.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393332582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A complete discussion of the effects of wind and its changes on racing strategy--by one of the world's most successful sailboat racers.