The Wreck Of The Serica

Author : Valerie Cottle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956206497
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Serica written by Valerie Cottle and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1867, Captain Thomas Cubbin, a master mariner from the Isle of Man, set out in the barque Serica, bound for Aden with a cargo of coal. In the Indian Ocean three months later the Serica encountered one of the most terrifying hurricanes ever recorded. What followed is a story of tragedy, adventure and extraordinary courage.

Author : Cubbin, Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Serica : a Narrative of 1868 written by Cubbin, Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Cubbin
Publisher : London : [s.n.]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Serica written by Thomas Cubbin and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1950 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wreck of the Serica written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Todd Stevens
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467001597
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pirate John Mucknell and the Hunt for the Wreck of the John written by Todd Stevens and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true relation of the treacherous, mutinous, and violent acts of the pirate Captain John Mucknell. It tells of how he came to steal a brand new 44 gun flag ship, the John, only to loose her upon the rocks of Scilly, where a pirate fleet he commanded were then based. Operating in the name of King Charles I, Mucknells ships wreaked havoc upon shipping, of all trading nations, in the western approaches during the English Civil War; until, as it was then written that God, or the gallows, make an end of him The story also incorporates a modern day hunt for the wreck.

Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547526733
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William James written by Robert D. Richardson and published by HMH. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself. Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant contributions to at least five fields: psychology, philosophy, religious studies, teaching, and literature. A member of one of the most unusual and notable of American families, James struggled to achieve greatness amid the brilliance of his theologian father; his brother, the novelist Henry James; and his sister, Alice James. After studying medicine, he ultimately realized that his true interests lay in philosophy and psychology, a choice that guided his storied career at Harvard, where he taught some of America’s greatest minds. But it is James’s contributions to intellectual study that reveal the true complexity of man. In this biography that seeks to understand James’s life through his work—including Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and Pragmatism—Robert D. Richardson has crafted an exceptionally insightful work that explores the mind of a genius, resulting in “a gripping and often inspiring story of intellectual and spiritual adventure” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “A magnificent biography.” —The Washington Post

Author : Emily Wooldridge
Publisher : London, G. Bles [1952]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wreck of the Maid of Athens written by Emily Wooldridge and published by London, G. Bles [1952]. This book was released on 1953 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Directions for the West Coast of England written by Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John R. Stilgoe
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813922218
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lifeboat written by John R. Stilgoe and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fire extinguisher; the airline safety card; the lifeboat. Until September 11, 2001, most Americans paid homage to these appurtenances of disaster with a sidelong glance, if at all. But John Stilgoe has been thinking about lifeboats ever since he listened with his father as the kitchen radio announced that the liner Lakonia had caught fire and sunk in the Atlantic. It was Christmas 1963, and airline travel and Cold War paranoia had made the images of an ocean liner's distress--the air force dropping supplies in the dark, a freighter collecting survivors from lifeboats--seem like echoes of a bygone era. But Stilgoe, already a passionate reader and an aficionado of small-boat navigation, began to delve into accounts of other disasters at sea. What he found was a trunkful of hair-raising stories--of shipwreck, salvation, seamanship brilliant and inept, noble sacrifice, insanity, cannibalism, courage and cravenness, even scandal. In nonfiction accounts and in the works of Conrad, Melville, and Tomlinson, fear and survival animate and degrade human nature, in the microcosm of an open boat as in society at large. How lifeboats are made, rigged, and captained, Stilgoe discovered, and how accounts of their use or misuse are put down, says much about the culture and circumstances from which they are launched. In the hands of a skillful historian such as Stilgoe, the lifeboat becomes a symbol of human optimism, of engineering ingenuity, of bureaucratic regulation, of fear and frailty. Woven through Lifeboat are good old-fashioned yarns, thrilling tales of adventure that will quicken the pulse of readers who have enjoyed the novels of Patrick O'Brian, Crabwalk by G nter Grass, or works of nonfiction such as The Perfect Storm and In the Heart of the Sea. But Stilgoe, whose other works have plumbed suburban culture, locomotives, and the shore, is ultimately after bigger fish. Through the humble, much-ignored lifeboat, its design and navigation and the stories of its ultimate purpose, he has found a peculiar lens on roughly the past two centuries of human history, particularly the war-tossed, technology-driven history of man and the sea.

Author : Monique Layton
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525500945
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life at Sea written by Monique Layton and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Life at Sea, anthropologist Monique Layton draws on her experiences on modern cruise ships to examine the evolution of sailing from the Age of Exploration to the Age of Tourism. Using historical records and the reports of people who once went to sea through necessity, curiosity, or adventure, she shows the common events that have shaped their voyages and the ingenuity, courage, and determination that characterize mankind's connection with the all-surrounding sea. The book's topics range from the dependence on the wind and manpower through the invention of devices to determine location at sea to modern maritime technology, from the devastation of scurvy and starvation on early ships of exploration and trade to the luxuries of omnipresent food, on-board medical treatment, and professional entertainment available on behemoth cruise ships. The book also delves into the deeper meaning of seafarers' rituals and their harsh lives with severe discipline and few rewards. These aspects along with the horrors of the slave trade and naval warfare, the harrowing crossings of emigrants and convicts, the ambiguities of piracy, and economics of global trade all show the contradictory elements that have consistently shaped travel by sea.