Shipmates

Author : Sarah Vowell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594484007
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wordy Shipmates written by Sarah Vowell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this New York Times bestseller, the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States "brings the [Puritan] era wickedly to life" (Washington Post). To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Sarah Vowell investigates what that means-and what it should mean. What she discovers is something far different from what their uptight shoebuckles- and-corn reputation might suggest-a highly literate, deeply principled, and surprisingly feisty people, whose story is filled with pamphlet feuds, witty courtroom dramas, and bloody vengeance. Vowell takes us from the modern-day reenactment of an Indian massacre to the Mohegan Sun casino, from old-timey Puritan poetry, where "righteousness" is rhymed with "wilderness," to a Mayflower-themed waterslide. Throughout, The Wordy Shipmates is rich in historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America's most celebrated voices.

Author : Lewis E. Seeley
Publisher : Dissertation.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipmates written by Lewis E. Seeley and published by Dissertation.com. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after one the morning of September 11, 1943, the destroyer USS Rowan (DD 405), was torpedoed by German e-boats. In less than a minute, the ship was at the bottom of the Mediterranean and two-hundred-four men were dead, including Francis Kirwin "Bob" Seeley. Among the seventy-two survivors was his older brother, Lewis Everett Seeley. Wracked by grief and guilt, Lewis spent the next four decades trying to forget that night. But eventually, he found himself unable to ignore or resist the insistent nightmares of the sinking. He realized that the only way he could lay to rest the ghosts of his past was to seek out the company of his shipmates. Only with their help could he piece together the broken fragments of his life.

Author : A. E. Loane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipmates written by A. E. Loane and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Morgan Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.B6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipmates written by Morgan Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Terrill
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446492192
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipmates written by Chris Terrill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tie-in book to a two part BBC 1 documentary series to be screened at 9.00pm in October and which will end on the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October. Chris Terrill is famous for his fly on the wall documentaries which have been watched by millions and received wide critical acclaim. We have had HMS Brilliant and The Cruise (audience reached 11 million). Chris has based himself for the last few months in the very heart of the modern day naval experience. We will see: a Royal Naval Chaplain exorcising a haunted barracks in Portsmouth, a vodka-fuelled Trafalgar Day celebration in the British Embassy in the Moscow in 2004, a Polaris submarine crossing the Atlantic on an exercise in which it will 'pretend' to nuke America, the patrol of the frigate HMS Chatham in the Gulf, suddenly diverted to Sri Lanka after the Tsunami and the Fleet Review, where HMS Chatham in honour of her humanitarian role in Asia, will lead the entire assembly of a hundred warships, British and foreign, down the Solent. Chris is the only film maker to be granted exclusive, behind the scenes access by the Navy this year. During the filming Chris will capture the heart and soul of the sailors aboard, and on shore: there will be plenty of irreverence, practical jokes and laughs, and the human reality of the families left behind for months on end as warships and submarines go on extended tours of duty. This will be the fullest ever account of the Modern Navy in a year when the Trafalgar Day celebrations and the Fleet review will attract an avalanche of publicity.

Author : Gary Burns
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476666873
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipmates written by Gary Burns and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1944, 78 U.S. Navy sailors and officers climbed aboard a ship just 150 feet long and 23 feet wide, and headed toward the sound of gunfire. One of a class of gunboats known as "mighty midgets," LCS 52 carried an arsenal equal to ships twice its size. Yet its shallow draft enabled it to maneuver to within a few hundred feet of any beach. Packed inside the tiny craft, the diverse crew were farmers, students, cooks and teachers. They ranged from age 17 to middle-aged--a few had seen combat in the Atlantic and the Pacific. This book tells the story of the ship's extensive service in World War II's Pacific Theater. Most of the crew survived the war, as did LCS 52 itself, serving in the U.S. Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force until 1958, when it was decommissioned and used for artillery practice. A roll call of crew members is included, with biographical information when available.

Author : Felix Riesenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipmates written by Felix Riesenberg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of intimate character portraits of men with whom the author has sailed on many voyages.--cf. publisher's advertisements.

Author : Alex Borucki
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826351794
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Shipmates to Soldiers written by Alex Borucki and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of slave trading and slavery. This book analyzes the lives of Africans and their descendants in Montevideo and Buenos Aires from the late colonial era to the first decades of independence. The author shows how the enslaved Africans created social identities based on their common experiences, ranging from surviving together the Atlantic and coastal forced passages on slave vessels to serving as soldiers in the independence-era black battalions. In addition to the slave trade and the military, their participation in black lay brotherhoods, African “nations,” and the lettered culture shaped their social identities. Linking specific regions of Africa to the Río de la Plata region, the author also explores the ties of the free black and enslaved populations to the larger society in which they found themselves.

Author : Heather Noel-Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270993
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hornblower's Historical Shipmates written by Heather Noel-Smith and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of varied careers, providing a rich snapshot of the later eighteenth-century sailing navy in microcosm.

Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Two Shipmates written by William Henry Giles Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: