Sailing By Ravens

Author : Holly Hughes
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232261
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing by Ravens written by Holly Hughes and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gillnetter, mariner, and naturalist Holly Hughes has experienced first-hand the practical and philosophical consequences of navigating difficult waters. In Sailing by Ravens, she gathers wisdom gained from thirty seasons working off Alaska’s shores, weaving personal experience and her love of the sea with the history and science of navigation. In this exquisite collection of poems, Hughes deftly navigates “the wavering, certain path” of a woman’s heart, finding that sometimes the best directions to follow are those that come from the natural forces in our lives. These meditations offer waypoints for readers on their own journeys. “These poems of the sea begin with a school girl’s fascination for ‘the blue sea holding captive all the land’ and end as the seasoned sailor learns that ‘even the old charts/ can’t navigate the wild shoals of your heart.’ Along the way we are shipmates through days of fishing, sailing, loving, and losing as Hughes navigates the lure, lore, and loneliness of a sea that is both natural force and metaphor. I love Sailing by Ravens with its salt of the sea, salt of our deepest lives.” —Gary Thompson, author of One Thing After Another

Author : Rod Scher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493070762
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing by Starlight written by Rod Scher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sailing by Starlight is the story of the adventure of a lifetime—in fact, of many lifetimes. In the early 1980s, retired geography professor Marvin Creamer set out to do what hadn’t been done for a thousand years—if indeed it had ever been done at all: Marv and his crew boarded a 35’ sailboat named Globe Star and set out into the frigid Atlantic, planning to sail around the world without the use of any instruments. There was no sextant aboard. No compass. No chart-plotter. No GPS. No radar. Not even a stopwatch. Creamer wanted to prove to the world that it was possible for ancient mariners to have crossed the largest seas, perhaps even sailed around the world, using only their brains, their experience, their sense, and their courage. In attempting to prove his point, Creamer would push his boat and his crew to the limit—and occasionally beyond. Travel with Creamer as Globe Star sails around the perilous Horn, across the dangerous and tumultuous Tasman Sea, and into an active war zone. Sail around the world with a man who was taken prisoner by an idea, a man obsessed with proving a point, and who would let neither 40-foot waves nor fractious crewmembers deter him.

Author : Virginia Bernhard
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272576
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Colonies written by Virginia Bernhard and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1609, two years after its English founding, colonists struggled to stay alive in a tiny fort at Jamestown.John Smith fought to keep order, battling both English and Indians. When he left, desperate colonists ate lizards, rats, and human flesh. Surviving accounts of the “Starving Time” differ, as do modern scholars’ theories. Meanwhile, the Virginia-bound Sea Venture was shipwrecked on Bermuda, the dreaded, uninhabited “Isle of Devils.” The castaways’ journals describe the hurricane at sea as well as murders and mutinies on land. Their adventures are said to have inspired Shakespeare’s The Tempest. A year later, in 1610, the Bermuda castaways sailed to Virginia in two small ships they had built. They arrived in Jamestown to find many people in the last stages of starvation; abandoning the colony seemed their only option. Then, in what many people thought was divine providence, three English ships sailed into Chesapeake Bay. Virginia was saved, but the colony’s troubles were far from over. Despite glowing reports from Virginia Company officials, disease, inadequate food, and fear of Indians plagued the colony. The company poured thousands of pounds sterling and hundreds of new settlers into its venture but failed to make a profit, and many of the newcomers died. Bermuda—with plenty of food, no native population, and a balmy climate—looked much more promising, and in fact, it became England’s second New World colony in 1612. In this fascinating tale of England’s first two New World colonies, Bernhard links Virginia and Bermuda in a series of unintended consequences resulting from natural disaster, ignorance of native cultures, diplomatic intrigue, and the fateful arrival of the first Africans in both colonies. Written for general as well as academic audiences, A Tale of Two Colonies examines the existing sources on the colonies, sets them in a transatlantic context, and weighs them against circumstantial evidence. From diplomatic correspondence and maps in the Spanish archives to recent archaeological discoveries at Jamestown, Bernhard creates an intriguing history. To weave together the stories of the two colonies, which are fraught with missing pieces, she leaves nothing unexamined: letters written in code, adventurers’ narratives, lists of Africans in Bermuda, and the minutes of committees in London. Biographical details of mariners, diplomats, spies, Indians, Africans, and English colonists also enrich the narrative. While there are common stories about both colonies, Bernhard shakes myth free from truth and illuminates what is known—as well as what we may never know—about the first English colonies in the New World.

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Total Pages : 1498 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Works written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8535 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Works written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 8535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Bulwer-Lytton was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. He wrote in a variety of genres, including historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction. Bulwer-Lytton's literary works were highly popular and bestselling novels at the time. Novels & Novellas: The Last Days of Pompeii The Pilgrims of the Rhine Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes Falkland Pelham The Disowned Devereux Paul Clifford Eugene Aram Godolphin Asmodeus at Large Ernest Maltravers Alice, or The Mysteries (A sequel to Ernest Maltravers) Calderon, the Courtier Leila, or The Siege of Granada Zicci: A Tale (A prequel to Zanoni) Zanoni Night and Morning The Last of the Barons Lucretia Harold, the Last of the Saxons The Caxtons: A Family Picture A Strange Story My Novel, or Varieties in English Life The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain What Will He Do With It? The Coming Race, or Vril: The Power of the Coming Race Kenelm Chillingly The Parisians Pausanias, the Spartan Short Stories: The Incantation The Brothers Historical Works: Athens: Its Rise and Fall Plays: The Lady of Lyons, or Love and Pride Poetry

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harold ... Second edition written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Newton Bavier
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Faster Sailing written by Robert Newton Bavier and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8537 pages
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Download or read book The Collected Works written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 8537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ultimate collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels & Novellas: The Last Days of Pompeii The Pilgrims of the Rhine Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes Falkland Pelham The Disowned Devereux Paul Clifford Eugene Aram Godolphin Asmodeus at Large Ernest Maltravers Alice, or The Mysteries (A sequel to Ernest Maltravers) Calderon, the Courtier Leila, or The Siege of Granada Zicci: A Tale (A prequel to Zanoni) Zanoni Night and Morning The Last of the Barons Lucretia Harold, the Last of the Saxons The Caxtons: A Family Picture A Strange Story My Novel, or Varieties in English Life The Haunted and the Haunters, or The House and the Brain What Will He Do With It? The Coming Race, or Vril: The Power of the Coming Race Kenelm Chillingly The Parisians Pausanias, the Spartan Short Stories: The Incantation The Brothers Poetry: The New Timon Constance Milton Eva The Fairy Bride The Beacon The Lay of the Minstrel's Heart Narrative Lyrics; or, The Parcæ King Arthur Corn-Flowers I Corn-Flowers II Earlier Poems The Land of Promise: A Fable Play: The Lady of Lyons, or Love and Pride Historical Works: Athens: Its Rise and Fall

Author : Nicholas Trask
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387207296
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows of Perdition written by Nicholas Trask and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: