A Seamans Book Of Sea Stories

Author : Desmond Fforde
Publisher : Headline Accent
ISBN 13 : 1909335231
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories written by Desmond Fforde and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Just the sort of book one likes to find on a yacht's bookshelf between watches." - Classic Boat Magazine Set sail on a voyage of discovery of great nautical stories. These stories range from the Napoleonic wars, via ships that traded under sail round Cape Horn, to what it was like to take charge of a ship in Convoy, serve in the force-ends of a submarine or fly a Corsair against the Japanese. If you have seen WW1 picture of a ship in dazzle camouflage, there is a description of how it came about, and the Dunkirk evacuation is movingly depicted. Lastly there is Uffa Fox's airbone lifeboat: a real masterpiece of design, and what a man!

Author : Ben Marcus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385350430
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving the Sea written by Ben Marcus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns hilarious and heartfelt, dark and illuminative, Ben Marcus’s Leaving the Sea is a ground breaking collection of stories from one of the single most vital, extraordinary, and unique writers of his generation. In the heartfelt “I Can Say Many Nice Things,” a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian “Rollingwood,” a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In “Watching Mysteries with My Mother,” a son meditates on his mother’s mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrator’s marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea is the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.

Author : William Seaman
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128225823
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structure in the Sea written by William Seaman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structure in the Sea: The Science, Technology and Effects of Purpose-Built Reefs and Related Surfaces provides a review of the history, development, status and emerging trends in research, technology and applications of artificial reef habitats and sea floor structures. The book helps readers understand, utilize and add to the research of modern reef deployment efforts, presenting a guide to equip stakeholders requiring technical foundations and best practices. Topics include materials, designs and construction methods, along with the ecology of these structures, including key aspects of the life history of plants and animals associated with artificial reefs. Rigorous research addressing ecological, economic and engineering questions, coupled with the innovative deployment of structures worldwide by diverse stakeholders, have created a synergy that makes the book a valuable synthesis and analysis for this growing subject. Thus, its broad audience includes marine (coastal and ocean) environmental sciences, including aquatic ecologists, those working in ocean sustainability and conservation, benthic habitat and coral reef restoration practitioners, and more. Presents a new perspective on how we might save natural wonders under threat Provides a representation of reefs, showing the economic and humanitarian value of these natural ecosystems Unlocks potentials for solutions for conservation by including global case studies

Author : Newell Convers Wyeth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883657072
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Stories of the Sea & Ships written by Newell Convers Wyeth and published by . This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of thirty-four works about the sea by such authors as Homer, Hans Christian Andersen, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Christopher Columbus, Daniel Defoe, and others.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Ships and the Sea written by Jack London and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Stories of Ships and the Sea" (Little Blue Book # 1169) by Jack London. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781472834119
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Seaman's Pocketbook written by Brian Lavery and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Second World War this small pocket-book was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy. In straight period prose it outlines all the basic expressions and tasks a seaman needed to know to perform his duties efficiently. Chapters are broken down into: Sea Terms; Navigation; Steering the Ship; Rigging; Anchors and Cables; Boatwork; Miscellaneous (which includes details on uniform and folding a hammock, etc); and Ship Safety. Functional black line illustrations are used throughout, as well as a few pages of colour (used sparingly) for flag recognition. Faithfully reproduced, with a short introduction by Brian Lavery, which explains the importance of a book like this to a navy that had to take on vast numbers of civilians or Hostilities Only men to meet the manning needs of the war, this volume provides a real mixture of wartime nostalgia and historical authenticity. It makes a world now lost to us accessible again, explaining as it does the terms, skills and conventions of ship board life, a life that required a common language, and where failure to respond to orders instantly could mean the difference between life and death. The book is sure to appeal to those who served in the war as well as the current generation who are becoming increasingly interested in the role their grandparents, fathers and uncles played during that time.

Author : Sea stories
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea stories, by an old sailor written by Sea stories and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay F. Johnson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469114151
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green Side Out written by Jay F. Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative is not about combat; it is about the space in time occupied by Marines between explosions in the time of battle. There is a lot of space in the life of a Marine that does not actually include bullet dodging, but this expanse of time could be just as tense and dangerous. Although when a Marine is on active duty, he or she must be ready at all times for any actualities. The events exemplified here took place in the closing days of the Korean Police Action when a shaky truce prevailed. These accounts are about being part of the greatest fighting force on the face of the earth, The United States Marine Corps.

Author : Gail Langer Karwoski
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1561456128
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SeaMan written by Gail Langer Karwoski and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 150-pound Newfoundland dog teams with Lewis & Clark for an edge-of-your-seat middle grade adventure. It is 1804, the year that Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery set out for their now-legendary exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. With no maps and little idea what wonders and dangers lie ahead, Seaman, a 150-pound Newfoundland dog, proves to be one of the most valuable members of the Corps. In the face of starvation, Seaman catches and retrieves game, and his intimidating size and teeth protect the small band of explorers – from Native American raiders and even a ferocious grizzly bear! As the bond and mutual trust between Seaman and the Corp grows, they're confident that nothing—not even raging waters and towering mountains—will stop them from reaching the West Coast. This thrilling fictional account of Lewis and Clark's expedition with the Corps of Discovery, Seaman, and eventually Sacagawea, is full of accurate details drawn from Lewis's own diary entries and will draw readers into one of the most exciting chapters in American history.

Author : Leon Fink
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807877808
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweatshops at Sea written by Leon Fink and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalized industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labor recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national borders. In Sweatshops at Sea, historian Leon Fink examines the evolution of laws and labor relations governing ordinary seamen over the past two centuries. The merchant marine offers an ideal setting for examining the changing regulatory regimes applied to workers by the United States, Great Britain, and, ultimately, an organized world community. Fink explores both how political and economic ends are reflected in maritime labor regulations and how agents of reform--including governments, trade unions, and global standard-setting authorities--grappled with the problems of applying land-based, national principles and regulations of labor discipline and management to the sea-going labor force. With the rise of powerful nation-states in a global marketplace in the nineteenth century, recruitment and regulation of a mercantile labor force emerged as a high priority and as a vexing problem for Western powers. The history of exploitation, reform, and the evolving international governance of sea labor offers a compelling precedent in an age of more universal globalization of production and services.