Mastering The Inland Seas

Author : Theodore J. Karamanski
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299326306
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering the Inland Seas written by Theodore J. Karamanski and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating the Great Lakes had on the national economies, politics, and environment of continental North America. Synthesizing popular as well as original historical scholarship, Karamanski weaves a colorful narrative illustrating how disparate private and government interests transformed these vast and dangerous waters into the largest inland water transportation system in the world. Karamanski explores both the navigational and sailing tools of First Nations peoples and the dismissive and foolhardy attitude of early European maritime sailors. He investigates the role played by commercial boats in the Underground Railroad, as well as how the federal development of crucial navigational resources exacerbated sectionalism in the antebellum United States. Ultimately Mastering the Inland Sea shows the undeniable environmental impact of technologies used by the modern commercial maritime industry. This expansive story illuminates the symbiotic relationship between infrastructure investment in the region's interconnected waterways and North America's lasting economic and political development.

Author : Madeleine Watts
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646220188
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inland Sea written by Madeleine Watts and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "eloquent debut," a young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present (Publishers Weekly). Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. Callers report car accidents and violent spouses and homes caught up in flame. The work becomes monotonous: answer, transfer, repeat. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins walking home with keys in hand, ready to fight off men disappointed by what they find in neighboring bars. During her free time, she gets black-out drunk, hooks up with strangers, and navigates an affair with an ex-lover whose girlfriend is in their circle of friends. Two centuries earlier, her great-great-great-great-grandfather--the British explorer John Oxley--traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea, but the myth was taken up by other men, and over the years, search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. Interweaving a woman's self-destructive unraveling with the gradual worsening of the climate crisis, The Inland Sea is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent, this novel asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency.

Author : Jerry Dennis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312331030
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Great Lakes written by Jerry Dennis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.

Author : Theodore J. Karamanski
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814329115
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schooner Passage written by Theodore J. Karamanski and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the Lake Michigan Schooner -- The maritime frontier : schooners and urban development on the Lake Michigan shore -- Before the mast and at the helm : captains and crews on Lake Michigan schooners -- Schooner City : the life and times of the Chicago River port -- Lost on Lake Michigan wrecks, rescues, and navigational aids.

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pathfinder written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752575093
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pathfinder or the Inland Sea written by J. Fenimore Cooper and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works: The Pathfinder; or, The inland sea written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pathfinder; Or, the Inland Sea. By the Author of “The Pioneers” [i.e. J. Fenimore Cooper], Etc written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pathfinder; or, The inland sea, by the author of 'The pioneers'. written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pathfinder, Or The Inland Sea written by Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: