The Tragic History Of The Sea

Author : Charles Ralph Boxer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816638901
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic History of the Sea written by Charles Ralph Boxer and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new edition of C. R. Boxer's translations of famous Portuguese shipwreck stories also includes a new translation of the tragic tale of Captain Manuel de Sousa Sepulveda, who was shipwrecked with his family and crew near the Cape of Good Hope in 1552. After enduring treacherous storms that completely destroyed their ship and its cargo, a few hundred passengers and slaves were forced to go ashore, where they struggled for several weeks with starvation and thirst, treks through rugged terrain, attacks and manipulation by African tribes, and conflicts within their own group. Only a handful of survivors reached Mozambique in 1553 after their dreadful and extreme ordeal."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426200946
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic History of the Sea written by Anthony Brandt and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster at sea is an ever-present peril, inspiring ancient legends, great works of fiction, and countless yarns of deadly typhoons, vessels consumed by fire, and desperate castaways alone on an empty ocean.

Author : Charles R. Boxer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic History of the Sea, (1589-1622) written by Charles R. Boxer and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C.R. Boxer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317013743
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622 written by C.R. Boxer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, João Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the 'História Trágico-Marítima' edited by Bernardo Gomes de Brito at Lisbon in 1735-6. The introduction and appendices discuss the 'Carreira da Índia'. For a further selection from the same source, see Second Series 132. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1959. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the sketch map of 'Figure 1:The Carreira da India, 1589-1622' which faced the first page of the book in the first edition.

Author : R. Neil Scott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442213442
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Many Were Held by the Sea written by R. Neil Scott and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 8:43 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, October 6, 1918, HMS Kashmir rammed HMS Otranto off Islay, Scotland. Both ships were former British passenger liners from the P&O Steamship Company that had been pulled into the war to ferry American soldiers between New York and various British ports. On this stormy morning, however, they were part of Convoy HX-50 carrying troops to Liverpool. On board were 372 British officers and sailors and 701 American soldiers. The Americans were mostly Southern farm boys from Fort Screven in Savannah under the command of Lt. Sam Levy, a Georgia Tech graduate from Atlanta. The Kashmir managed to back away and follow the harsh wartime order that required her to ignore any maritime disasters that might befall her sister ships and to continue on her prescribed course rather than stop and take on survivors. Thus it was that—with winds blowing at 70 to 75 mph and waves at more than 60 feet—the severely damaged Otranto was left dead in the water with more than a thousand souls aboard. Many Were Held by the Sea: The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto, tells the story of what happened during that voyage—mostly from the perspective of the American soldiers—and builds to the disastrous conclusion. The narrative details the courage of the young men on board, men who, for the most part, had never seen the ocean or learned to swim. It tells of the anguish from the home front, as family members had to wait weeks to learn the fate of their relatives. In addition, Scott’s narrative tells the personal story of Lieutenant Craven of the Royal Navy, serving as Commander of the rescue ship, who was forced to gamble with the lives of those on both ships in order to save the maximum number of passengers.

Author : Debrito Gomes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The tragic history of the sea written by Debrito Gomes and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C.R. Boxer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317131223
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1559-1565 written by C.R. Boxer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Being about to write down the disastrous voyage of this great ship, it occurred to me how rash men are in their undertakings, chief among which, or one of the greatest is confiding their lives to four planks lashed together, and to the discretion of the furious winds.' So wrote Henrique Dias, an eye-witness of the wreck of the Sao Paulo off Sumatra and the subsequent fate of the survivors. His account is one of three narratives, here translated into English for the first time, of certain shipwrecks which befell the Portuguese in the mid-16th century. The other two describe the wrecking of two East Indiamen off the East African coast, and the misadventures of a voyage from Brazil to Lisbon. In his introduction, Professor Boxer describes the lives of the three chroniclers, and gives bibliographical details of their works. The narratives are translated from the original accounts which Bernardo Gomes de Brito included in his História Trágico-Marítima (Lisbon, 1735-36). The present volume forms a companion to Professor Boxer's earlier work The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622 (Hakluyt Society, 1959). This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1968.

Author : David W. Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743235037
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea Shall Embrace Them written by David W. Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stirring narrative is the riveting tale of the sinking of the steamship "Arctic"--a story of extraordinary bravery and appalling cowardice that took nearly 400 lives and the American merchant marine business down with it. of illustrations.

Author : Charles Ralph Boxer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The tragic history of the sea (História trágico-marítima, engl., Ausz.). written by Charles Ralph Boxer and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Callum Roberts
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597265772
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unnatural History of the Sea written by Callum Roberts and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail. As Callum M. Roberts reveals in The Unnatural History of the Sea, the oceans’ bounty didn’t disappear overnight. While today’s fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the eleventh century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation of the seas. Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by fifteenth century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply the latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas. The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can leave the oceans richer than we found them.