A Sailors Tales

Author : Bill Robinson
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393335729
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sailor's Tales written by Bill Robinson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1978-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the way are hurricanes in the Atlantic, typhoons and earthquakes in the Pacific and the Orient, wild times on Navy ships and on Navy liberty ashore, as well as rescues at sea--including the famous sinking of the Mary E in the 1976 Miami-Nassau race. There are also evocative stories of idyllic cruises and places, like Nantucket, Scandinavia, Greece, and the coasts of the United States. Robinson's stories are peopled with a warm, amusing, and frequently dramatic cast of characters, including yachts themselves--ranging from sailing skiffs to large ocean-racing machines, and most things in between--old and new, large and small, in storm and calm. His has been a rich sailing life and his stories tell of it with fascination and inescapable entertainment.

Author : L. C. Tang
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781632214270
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Untold Tales of a Sailor at Sea written by L. C. Tang and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea." Alain Gerbault The Untold Tales of a Sailor at Sea invites you to look behind cruise ship doors and join in one woman's adventures during her life at sea. Lincee Tang decides to celebrate her milestone thirtieth birthday with a vacation cruise which ignites her desire to sail away to many ports of call proudly wearing the uniform in the Entertainment Department. Lincee's story of making memories at sea unveils the hidden truths and untold stories of the sailing crew who work hard to make passengers' ocean journeys enjoyable. Taking hold of her courage to lose sight of the shore, Lincee discovers hidden talents within, forges ahead with resilience in tough situations, and has her chance at romance and love. Discover how removing inhibitions and fear of the unknown can lead to a whole world of possibilities and adventures. Finding growth in unexpected social, emotional and spiritual avenues leads one to explore how it is possible to reach new horizons. "The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." Jacques Cousteau "They that go down to the ship, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep." Psalm 107: 23-24 "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Christopher Columbus

Author : Sam Glanzman
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486798127
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sailor's Story written by Sam Glanzman and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unabridged republication of the following works originally published by Marvel Comics, New York: A Sailor's Story (1987) and A Sailor's Story, Book Two: Winds, Dreams, and Dragons (1989)"--Title page verso.

Author : James Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors written by James Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David L. Bristow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466871423
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sky Sailors written by David L. Bristow and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century before airplanes, people explored the sky in balloons. From 1783 to the early 1900s, aeronauts flew into storms, crossed large bodies of water, sailed over enemy armies, and soared to deadly altitudes. Illustrated in full color with dramatuc period artwork, Sky Sailors by David L. Bristow presents the stories of the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France, and Salomon Andree, who lead an aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897.

Author : Bill Robinson
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393032116
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sailor's Tales written by Bill Robinson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E.G. ‘Lusko
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796031402
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sailor's Tale written by E.G. ‘Lusko and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1888, a US Navy sailor begins writing letters to his niece. The letters tell her where he is and what ventures he has gotten himself into. His sailor letters are retrospective, written after things happen. He also must tell her how he got to the place in time he started writing. He is educated for the time, trained as a naval navigator, lighthouse repairman, and watch repairman. His language is as he would speak to his fellow crew—clipped, as sailors use few G sounds, and an apostrophe is used to indicate the word is shortened, as they do. He is honest and kind. He is well trained in sword fighting. His enlistment contract is not the standard form. His mother’s attorney wrote it. The fleet admiral approved it as he had served with the sailor’s uncle. His uncle was a noted ship navigator, shipmaster, an author of navy lore, and now provided ocean metrological data to the naval observatory. He has carried this on. His early experiences involve train travel to San Francisco. The ship charts the then Northwest Territory and the Alaskan coast. His group verifies charts of the Missouri River. Mostly, his ship supplies food provisions to navy frigates in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.

Author : Christopher Caswell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493083538
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told written by Christopher Caswell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, man has sailed into battle, sailed for rumored wealth, and sailed for pure adventure. And for nearly as long, stories about the sea have entertained, intrigued, and inspired readers. The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told brings together some of the most compelling writing of the millennium. Here is Peter Goss's wrenching narrative of incredible courage in the world's most desolate ocean along with Ernest Shackleton's understated and awesome account of one of the most daring small-boat journeys ever taken, where failure meant certain death for his long-suffering crew. But sailing is much more than headlong dashes into roaring seas. You'll also find William F. Buckley Jr. on idyllic cruising; James Thurber on the arcane and often impenetrable language of sailors; and the legendary Joshua Slocum on sailing alone around the world. The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told is a treasure trove: tears, adrenaline, laughter, and adventure abound. With contributions from: - James Thurber -William F. Buckley Jr. - Ann Davison - Sterling Hayden - Ernest Shackleton - Tristan Jones - Samuel Eliot Morrison - Joshua Slocum - E. B. White - C. S. Forester - Cleveland Amory - Weston Martyr - Peter Goss - David Kasanof – and many others.

Author : James Barnes
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494445980
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors written by James Barnes and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give a ship an unlucky name, and it will last throughout the whole of her career. A sailor is proverbially superstitious, and he clings jealously to tradition. It is told that when the frigate Chesapeake was launched she stuck fast on the ways, and did not reach the water until the following day, which was Friday. Although she was a fine vessel to look at, she grounded upon the bar upon her first attempt to sail, and, when once free, behaved herself in such a lubberly fashion that those who witnessed her starting out declared she was bewitched. Even after many changes had been made in the length of her masts, in the weight of spars, and the cut of sails, still she was considered by many a failure. And, although her sailing qualities improved as time went on, yet her bad name stuck to her, as bad names will. Given this drawback, the unlucky captain of such a craft finds it difficult to recruit a proper crew, and must often be content with green hands, or the riffraff disdained by other ships' masters.

Author : James Barnes
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040621442
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 written by James Barnes and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: