A Seaport Saga
Author | : William Francis Smith |
Publisher | : Walsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780898657814 |
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Author | : William Francis Smith |
Publisher | : Walsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780898657814 |
Author | : Coleman McCampbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Corpus Christi (Tex.) |
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Author | : Japan Department of railways |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Mazo de la Roche |
Publisher | : Dundurn.com |
Total Pages | : 3965 |
Release | : 2013-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1459723562 |
Beloved by generations, Mazo de la Roche’s irreplaceable Jalna saga is at last available in a single collected volume. For lovers of the series, this is truly the authoritative collection. The Jalna series is a 16-novel family saga about the Whiteoak family. First published in 1927, Jalna won the Atlantic Monthly Press’s first $10,000 Atlantic Prize Novel award. De la Roche went on to write about the Whiteoak family for the next 30 years, establishing a place for herself in popular Canadian literature. The Jalna series has been translated into many languages and was adapted for stage, radio, and television. Includes all of the Jalna novels: The Building of Jalna Morning at Jalna Mary Wakefield Young Renny Whiteoak Heritage Whiteoak Brothers Jalna Whiteoaks of Jalna Finch’s Fortune The Master of Jalna Whiteoak Harvest Wakefield’s Course Return to Jalna Renny’s Daughter Variable Winds at Jalna Centenary at Jalna
Author | : Charles P. Jr. Poland |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 1418440671 |
A unique telling of Civil War military activity in 1861, The Glories of War focuses on the Union's invasion of Virginia from four directions; it is the first study of the four invasion corridors of the Civil War. The Union invasions mainly produced small battles and skirmishes, as well as widely celebrated heroes, that received national attention in both the North and South but are forgotten today. Major themes include combatants' romanticized visions of the "glories of war," as well as their subsequent disillusionment. Special emphasis is placed on military activity in western Virginia (modern West Virginia), which has received limited study. Extensive use of Union and Confederate newspapers, along with previously unused sources, brings new information to readers. The text is supplemented by maps depicting both overviews and details of military action.
Author | : United States. Coast Guard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1778 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Total Pages | : 1788 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Merchant marine |
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Author | : Neil Swidey |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2014-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307886743 |
The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.
Author | : Japan. Teikoku Tetsudōchō |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : East Asia |
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Author | : Japan. Tetsudōin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : China |
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